There are 'post cards' from different places. Google Holiday Logo There are palm trees in one and snowpersons in another, there's a cabin by a lake with a volcano in the background, then there is this one from outer space, with the sun, the space shuttle and 'peace on earth. Different holiday greetings from different places. I don't know the origins of the 'peace sign', but I'm pretty sure it is a fairly pleasant, mostly apolitical (different even from the 60s) symbol to most people now.

Perhaps it IS political, because the space shuttle certainly isn't from Zimbabwe or Mexico...