Poignant picture of a girl scout standing up to a neo-Nazi is going viral

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Some pictures tell a story better than a thousand words.

This photograph of a girl scout named Lucie face-to-face with a neo-Nazi member in Brno, Czech Republic, is so iconic that it already got 61,000 points on Reddit.

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The girl, from the Czech Junák - český skaut (Scouts and Guides of the Czech Republic) is holding a sign which reportedly says "We will raise your children"-- a Scout motto -- and is protesting against an extreme right rally held in the Czech city on 1 May.

The World Organization of the Scout Movement (WOSM), which re-shared on Facebook the picture originally taken by Vladimír Čičmanec, said in a post:

"People from all walks of life, and #Scouts among them, came to the streets during an extreme right march yesterday, to express their support for values of diversity, peace and understanding. Creating a better world!"

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Some people shared on Twitter different angles from the scene:

Anička Čámská, a member of the Czech Scout organisation, shared more information about the protest:

"There was some kind of far-right march, so a bunch of people went there as well to protest in a peaceful way -- they were dancing and painting. Later, more people came to protest against neo-Nazis with drums and so on," she said in a Facebook post.

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