[C19fan]

The swastika is one of the oldest and most widespread symbols in human history. One can find it all over the world including Pre-Colombia America

[Hyman Roth]

This isn’t what shocked me about the story. What shocked me was that Finland has an Air Force.

[ssapro]

The US 45th Infantry Division wore the swastika until 1939 when they adopted the thunderbird.

[Celtic Conservative]

That’s all before it became the “Hakenkreutz” of The Third Reich. Their shenanigans have poisoned the more benign uses of the symbol.

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[Waverunner]

I surprised that a modern day journalist even knows what a swastika looks like.

[Fresh Wind]

"It added it wishes to 'update the symbolism and emblems of the flags to better reflect the current identity of the air force'."

A rainbow swastika?

[Jonty30]

The Nazi swastika is backwards from the oldest symbol in the world.

[tlozo]

Just as with Ukraine, pro-Putin apologists of Russia’s invasion had previously labeled Finland as fascist in 2022 and brought up the nazi symbol

https://www.isdglobal.org/digital_dispatches/apologists-of-russias-war-label-finland-fascist-following-its-bid-to-join-nato/

[datricker]

Lots of people probably had that silly little mustache Hitler sported. Notice nobody does that anymore too. Perhaps they could replace it with a pentagram.
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[BobL]

Send the flags to Ukraine and they’ll be posted all over the country.

[Wuli]

It was chosen BEFORE Hitler turned it into the symbol for his Nazis.

[NewMexLurker]

In 1907 New Mexico State University adopted the name "Swastika" for their student yearbook, and also started using the symbol as the logo. Later, in 1920, the nazi party adopted the same version of the swastika (arms sort of pointing clockwise) as their logo.

NMSU was still using the swastika name and symbol for their student yearbook when I attended back in the mid 70's. They finally abandoned it in 1983.

[bobbo666]

Let’s not forget that finland was an Axis power in WW2. They sided with the Nazis.
Mind, their enemy was the much worse USSR, but still. History counts.

[Fresh Wind]

When I was in my early teens, my family visited a relative who lived in Syracuse, NY. As part of that visit, I observed a 3 or 4 story building that had a decorative cornice, perhaps of concrete, which featured a large and very prominent swastika.

I wonder if it’s still there?

[atomic_dog]

In the late eighties I made a port call in Cochin India before it was renamed Kochi. I’d never heard of them before but there was a large colony of diaspora Jews living there since the 12th Century. Most of them have since resettled to Israel but some of their synagogues remain. I visited one and was amazed to see the wrought iron basement windows, each of which had a swastika in the center of it.

[DesertRhino]

In New Mexico you’ll find more than a few older buildings from the 1920s with swastika decorations.

[Fledermaus]

Until those damn Nazis ruined it for everyone.

Germans!!!