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A giant Adolf Hitler bends down and pats a docile Vladimir Putin on the cheek, master to pupil, in a picture posted on Ukraine’s official Twitter account on February 24 — the day the invasion began. The message that follows reads: “This is not a ‘meme’, but our and your reality right now.” Almost two million people have liked the tweet and many thousands have shared it, making it one of the defining viral takes of the war so far. Yet the country’s official messaging is only a tiny part of the story of memes in the Ukraine war. For two weeks after the invasion, Ukraine’s official account pivot…