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The luxury brand Chanel has decided to ban the sale of clothes, perfumes and other products to Russian customers, not only those who live in Russia: you will have to

to buy an item in a store.

It is the brand's response to the entry of the Russian army into Ukraine.

This new measure affects purchases worth 300 euros or more, a price range that includes most of its products.

"We have launched a process to ask customers whose main residences we do not know to confirm that

," Chanel said.

Important Russian 'influencers'

recording videos in which they destroy bags with sharp scissors.

The popular

even gave a little speech in English before she gutted hers.

"If the house of Chanel does not respect its customers, why do we have to respect the house of Chanel?"

Bonya, (9 million followers on Instagram) was born in Krasnokamensk, where Russia's largest uranium mine is located, but now she is experiencing bitter moments in Monte Carlo: "Shame on the house of Chanel for supporting racism and Russophobia!"

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(299,000 followers) who introduces herself as "public relations, TV presenter, actress and 'Cosmo' cover girl) has decided to destroy a Chanel bag and upload the video to her profile. "For us girls Russians, the presence of Chanel in our lives

We were the ones who have always been the face of this brand;

those of us who set ourselves the goal of buying a bag from this brand since we were little", she said in her hurt speech. "But not a single bag, not a single thing is worth my love for my country,

for myself, I am against Russophobia, and I am against a brand that supports Russophobia."

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Nazi accusations

The company has long announced

in Russia.

It is a decision that many companies have also made: Inditex, Ikea or Netflix have locked down Russia.

But the decision to turn away any Russian man or woman who walks into a store has even unnerved the Russian Foreign Ministry.

"It seems that the managers of the legacy of the Great Coco Chanel have decided to join the

campaign to 'cancel' Russia," protested the spokeswoman for the Russian Foreign Ministry,

Zajarova denounces that "within the chain there is a circular in force that obliges Chanel clients to commit in writing not to send clothes purchased abroad to Russia."

The 'influencer' Marina Ermoshkina confirms that the sale process now involves

that the buyer will never use that item in Russia.

The brand has always been a symbol of exclusive taste, opulence and elegance.

Chanel's name is

Jackie Kennedy wore a pink Chanel suit the day President Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas in 1963. Her designs are worn by the Windsors or Carla Bruni.

It is the halo of wealth, but also of power.

In Russia the brand

but now the past and present of the march are ammunition in the battle of gestures between Moscow and the West.

The Russian spokeswoman does not understand what what she calls Russia's

has to do with that French fashion house: "It turns out that a lot, the skeletons of 80 years ago have not yet rotted away."

Zajarova pulls from history books and points out that "during World War II Coco Chanel herself was

and the French occupation government."

She also denounces Zajarova that "Chanel was so sympathetic to the German masters of Paris that she participated in attempts to organize secret negotiations between the Reich and the United Kingdom" while "ordinary Parisians survived during German occupation and exploitation."

The collaborationist Chanel

Moscow, always on the lookout for living remnants

when it feels wronged, genuinely believes that "the house of Chanel can once again support Nazism, just as the brand's founder did."

Some in Paris have also got that message.

with the Chanel logo in the eyes on the facades of several stores of this brand, according to the French newspaper 'Le Figaro'.

Hal Vaughan, author of the book on Chanel entitled, 'Sleeping with the Enemy', has written that

during the war.

According to his version, a German recruited Chanel as agent F-7124, under the code name 'Westminster'.

It is not clear, however, that she did any spy work.

The truth is that, thanks to this relationship, Chanel obtained

detained in a prisoner of war camp in Germany.

She also attempted to take control of a profitable perfume business from the Jewish Wertheimer brothers in 1924.

At the end of the war, Chanel fled to Switzerland and was saved from being tried as a collaborator.

Vaughan believes that this was due to the intervention of

Others say it was the work of the British royal family.

Now Russia, wounded by the abrupt rudeness of the popular brand, has decided to remove that turbulent past.

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