Ah yes, Finland. That minor Nazi ally who had its own concentration camps. In which they imprisoned people who they had ethnically cleansed from their homelands. To make room for Finnish colonists.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War-responsibility_trials_in_Finland
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_Karelian_concentration_camps
Don't buy that "Be very afraid" bullshit. Finns were full-on Nazi collaborators.
You wont believe the amount of people who will site the Soviet's grabbing Karelia as a "genocide" of the Finns. Soviets get rid of an openly hostile military presence: genocide. Finns literally carry out the holocaust: little oopsy daisy
why the fuck does their airforce dress like this with that flag, and why did no one tell me
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:
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.
Swedish count Eric von Rosen gave the Finnish White government its second aircraft, a Thulin Typ D.[3] Von Rosen had painted his personal good-luck charm on the Thulin Typ D aircraft. This logo – a blue swastika, the ancient symbol of the sun and of good luck, with no political connotation at the time – gave rise to the insignia of the Finnish Air Force. The white circular background originated when the Finns painted over the advertisement from the Thulin air academy.
Eric von Rosen
Nazi, literally related to Göring by marriage.
Finnish White government
Self-explanatory, white army shit.
no political connotation at the time
Didn't last long, plus the Finns ended up being huge Nazis too.
In summary, :yikes: .
Not even really "ended up" being, we were doing the Greater Finland thing almost immediately after independence
LMAO, well "white goverment" does kind of give it away, doesn't it? But they also went on to nicely ally with the literal Nazis if I recall correctly.
In summary, I think :what-the-hell: captures it, no?
Um, excuse me, I know for a fact that Finland is ultra-communist. Their government does stuff. Lots of stuff, in fact. How can they be fascists if their government does the literal definition of communism—doing government things?
apparently finland had a tango scene that was super big in the 40s and was influenced in particular by german marches. idk how many anectodes one needs about the finland question but it should be beyond debate at this point
:reddit-logo: : Based deformed Finnish sniper man... bad?
Is there anything more fundamentally liberal than a swastika on a blue background?
