[Post Toasties]

Back of Early Soviet 5000 ruble banknote featuring three crossed 'S for Socialism' Swastikas:

[Army Air Corps]

Also, the Nazis supported a wide variety of socialist give-away and cradle-to-grave programmes. Thanks for posting this.

[camerakid400]

wow.

Bookmark.

[Southack]

Godwin’s Law: the first person to suggest Hitler or Nazis in a debate: loses.

Don’t be dumb.

[Republic_of_Secession.]

The Nazis were a total rip off & repackaging of Leftist ideology & ideals. Though the Swastika itself goes back even further to ancient times & has been used (& is still used in Hindu religious symbolism) by a number of other cultures around the world.

[endthematrix]

Dare not we post a picture of American school children giving a raised arm “Hitler salute” to the US flag.

National Socialism was rave here in the USA under Roosevelt.

To me, the comparison is moot. The Globalist Socialist Nazi's of today wear Armani, ski in Aspen and sip Cristal.

[struwwelpeter]

[SpaceBar]

The hackenkreutz or broken cross (swastika) was a common motif in German occultist beliefs, specifically the Thule Gesellschaft (Thule Society).

[dalereed]

I would say they borrowed it from the Navajo indians, theirs is the reverse of the German one.

My parents had a Navajo blanket that they picked up on their honeymoon in 1923 that was the swastica in reverse.

[InABunkerUnderSF]

Interesting. The rest of the lettering on the note is in Cyrillic. Why would "crossed "S' use the roman alphabet?

It's dated 1918. Note the two headed eagle on the obverse. I think this is a Czarist note.

My Russian isn't that good. Any Russian speakers on the thread who can help?

[SolidWood]

"Classical" Socialism/Communism is international and non-racist. National Socialism is what the name implies: Socialism combined with Nationalism and/or racism.

In the Soviet Union Trotsky was the proponent of the first, while Stalin was a National Communist. Nazism is typical leftist/statist policies combined with some right-wing ideological elements, foremostly Nationalism.

[wastedyears]

There’s absolutely not a single thing “right of politics” about being a fascist.

[Vince Ferrer]

Swastikas are also a Buddhist symbol. This statue is a huge monument and monastery outside Hong Kong on Lantao island. I would guess that most people in China are not aware of the western aversion to that symbol at all.

Also, just for extra credit, the robes worn by the Ku Klux Klan are not original either. In Spain, they are worn during parades and pilgrimages. In Spain, they are worn during sometimes grueling pilgrimages in order to keep the wearer anonymous, in keeping with what Jesus said in Matthew 6:5-6. For the Klan, of course, the anonymity is for the opposite reason of holiness, that they can get away with committing crimes.

[Impy]

Are you suggesting they love commies while hypocritically hating hitler!?!?!?!?

[Centurion2000]

Back of Early Soviet 5000 ruble banknote featuring three crossed 'S for Socialism' Swastikas:

Not true. The Russian language does not use the latin letter S for anything. They use C to express the s sound.

CCCP in Cyrillic ---> SSSR in latin

[agere_contra]

By the way, I don't think anyone has thanked you for this simply tremendous post. This symbolic/iconographic identity of the USSR and the Nazis really, really kicks that "Right Wing Nazi" stuff to the kerb