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    • Comrade_Crab [any]
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      3 years ago

      From Wikipedia:

      The swastika was officially taken into use after an order by Commander-in-Chief C. G. E. Mannerheim on 18 March 1918. The Finnish Air Force changed its aircraft insignia, which resembled the unrelated swastika of the Third Reich, after 1944, due to an Allied Control Commission decree prohibiting Fascist organizations. It nevertheless continues to feature in some unit emblems, unit flags and decorations, including on uniforms. In 2020 the BBC reported that the Finnish Air Force had "quietly stopped" using the symbol in the emblem of the Air Force Command.

      :yikes:

      • LeninWeave [none/use name]
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        3 years ago

        resembled the unrelated swastika of the Third Reich

        Unrelated in that they did it first by two years, but the guy they got it from ended up being a Nazi, and then they ended up being Nazis too.