Posted on 07/02/2020 4:52:57 AM PDT by C19fan
Finland's air force has quietly dropped the infamous swastika from its command insignia after critics called for it to be changed because of its links with Nazi Germany. The air force had used the symbol ever since it was founded in 1918 and long before it was co-opted by mass murderer Adolf Hitler's Nazi Party. But in a change first noticed by University of Helsinki academic Teivo Teivainen and reported by the BBC, the air force command has stopped using the unit emblem.
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Silly. So the traditions of Finland are one more victim of the Nazis.
Hitler called it a hooked cross. I think it fits in the Nazi case as an anti Christian symbol or certainly a perversion of it. Bizarrely they kept the Iron cross as a nod to tradition at least in the military.
The Finnish swastika long predated the Nazis.
There’s a centuries-old quilt pattern that looks like a swastika — a variation on the “rail fence” pattern.
It’s amazing how stupid people can be.
A quilt pattern before Hitler is a swastika. (It isn’t.)
The Confederate flag represents racism. (It doesn’t.)
Every now and then some nutball tries to make a big deal about it.
No. Correctly, nobody associates eagles with WS and the US was using eagles as a symbol way before Nazis even appeared on the scene
And swastikas predates Nazi .
Considering the “noble” eagle is just another predator that swoops down on the unsuspecting it is an inappropriate symbol for a just government.
The Nazis profusely used eagles as symbols. Shouldn’t we tear down our eagles in the US because of their links to white supremacy?
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Will have to remove Bald Eagles as national symbol and exterminate the flying NAZIs!
Franklin supposedly want the turkey as a national symbol.
Our World has turned into a bunch of snowflakes.
Before the 1930s, the US 45th Infantry Division used a swastika like symbol on their patch.
The U.S. Canal Zone issued a stamped envelope whose border was made up of dozens of swastikas. You can see a picture of it here:
https://ufdc.ufl.edu/AA00048433/00001/365j
That's because the 45th ID was formed after WWI from units in the Southwestern US, and the Army was drawing from the American Indian history in that region.
It wasn't until the late 1930s that the patch was changed to a Thunderbird, still keeping the Indian heritage, to avoid associative problems with the Hitler and the Nazi party.
Why Do we need any animal totem ?
Probably don’t but it seems to have been a thing among nations in the past.
A few years ago, in England, a Roman-era villa was [re-?]discovered. Rome left England ~400AD.
The tiled mosaic floor had a number swastika tiles in the pattern.
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