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Finland's air force quietly ditches infamous SWASTIKA symbol from its command insignia
UK Daily Mail ^
| July 1, 2020
| Harry Howard
Posted on 07/02/2020 4:52:57 AM PDT by C19fan
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The swastika is perhaps one of the oldest symbols in human history. The word swastika is based on the Sanskrit word svástika meaning good luck. The symbol can be found across the Eurasian continent. As the article states, the symbol was used when Finland gained its independence from Russia before the Nazis appropriated it.
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posted on
07/02/2020 4:52:57 AM PDT
by
C19fan
To: C19fan
Yes. Even the Apache Indians used the swastika symbol. I saw some old bowls with the swastika painted inside. Which was the broken arrow sign of peace.
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posted on
07/02/2020 4:56:08 AM PDT
by
4yearlurker
(Freedom.....where is she?)
To: C19fan
Silly. So the traditions of Finland are one more victim of the Nazis.
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posted on
07/02/2020 4:58:57 AM PDT
by
Jewbacca
(The residents of Iroquois territory may not determine whether Jews may live in Jerusalem)
To: C19fan
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.
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posted on
07/02/2020 5:02:51 AM PDT
by
xp38
To: C19fan
The Finnish swastika long predated the Nazis.
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posted on
07/02/2020 5:04:04 AM PDT
by
Campion
(What part of "shall not be infringed" don't they understand?)
To: C19fan
The Nazis profusely used eagles as symbols. Shouldn't we tear down our eagles in the US because of their links to white supremacy?
Nazi Imperial Eagle
To: C19fan
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.)
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posted on
07/02/2020 5:38:17 AM PDT
by
MayflowerMadam
(Fauci and China can KMA.)
To: MayflowerMadam
Our local courthouse was finished in 1917. It has a lot of elaborate tilework, including some swastika patterns.
Every now and then some nutball tries to make a big deal about it.
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posted on
07/02/2020 6:03:58 AM PDT
by
real saxophonist
(If you believe masks work, you also believe Santa Claus ate the Easter Bunny for dinner.)
To: The_Media_never_lie
The Nazis profusely used eagles as symbols. Shouldn't we tear down our eagles in the US because of their links to white supremacy?No. Correctly, nobody associates eagles with WS and the US was using eagles as a symbol way before Nazis even appeared on the scene
To: Last Dakotan
And swastikas predates Nazi .
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posted on
07/02/2020 6:36:57 AM PDT
by
hoosierham
(Freedom isn't free)
To: hoosierham
Considering the “noble” eagle is just another predator that swoops down on the unsuspecting it is an inappropriate symbol for a just government.
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posted on
07/02/2020 6:39:47 AM PDT
by
hoosierham
(Freedom isn't free)
To: The_Media_never_lie
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!
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posted on
07/02/2020 6:56:44 AM PDT
by
PIF
(They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
To: hoosierham
Franklin supposedly want the turkey as a national symbol.
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posted on
07/02/2020 6:58:11 AM PDT
by
xp38
To: C19fan
Our World has turned into a bunch of snowflakes.
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posted on
07/02/2020 7:04:08 AM PDT
by
Rappini
(Compromise has its place. It's called second.)
To: 4yearlurker
Before the 1930s, the US 45th Infantry Division used a swastika like symbol on their patch.
To: C19fan
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posted on
07/02/2020 8:36:27 AM PDT
by
hanamizu
To: Dutch Boy
Before the 1930s, the US 45th Infantry Division used a swastika like symbol on their patch.
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.
To: xp38
Why Do we need any animal totem ?
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posted on
07/02/2020 10:41:53 AM PDT
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hoosierham
(Freedom isn't free)
To: hoosierham
Probably don’t but it seems to have been a thing among nations in the past.
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07/02/2020 11:05:15 AM PDT
by
xp38
To: real saxophonist
It has a lot of elaborate tilework, including some swastika patterns.
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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