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A Finnish Air Force spokesperson told Reuters the swastika in the Finnish Air Force flag featured in the photos was introduced in 1918 – before Nazism rose in Europe.
“The first aircraft of the Finnish Air Force, a Thulin Typ D reconnaissance aircraft, was donated by [Swedish count] Eric von Rosen in 1918,” the spokesperson explained.
Wow, very interesting, let's look at this guy's Wikipedia page.
Von Rosen became brother-in-law to Hermann Göring when his wife's sister, Carin von Kantzow, married Göring.
:bruh:
However, it is wrong to claim the flag demonstrates Finland condoning Nazism, historians and the Finnish Air Force say; although Helsinki did ally with Nazi Germany between 1941 to 1944 to fight off Soviet invasion (here).
Very interesting framing, Reuters Fact Check, now face the wall.
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Claims are circulating online that Finland is a Nazi country or supports Nazism due to the historical use of swastikas by its air force.
Claims are circulating that the Nazi country which fought with the Nazis during the Nazi war against the enemies of the Nazis is a Nazi country or supports Nazis, HOWEVER- :stalin-gun-1::not-a-journalist:
More and more people are asking about my "I am definitely not a Nazis T-Shirt"
You see, its not problematic if it was merely introduced to Finland by a fascist who was later closely aligned with Nazis
He wasn’t a Nazi, he was an upstanding white nationalist aryan race supremacist closely and intimately related to the far right in Germany. Including the Nazis.
"Claims are circulating online that Finland is a Nazi country or supports Nazism due to..." historically supporting nazis while being nazi and fighting for nazis and using swastikas maybe!? :thinkin-lenin:
Normal people: oh wow maybe Nazism is bad.
Liberals: ACTUALLY IT'S VERY GOOD AND AS LONG AS A TINY TECHNICALITY ALLOWS YOU TO SAY YOU DEVELOPED NAZISM IN PARALLEL WITH THE GERMANS RATHER THAN INHERITING IT FROM THEM THEN YOU CAN DO ALL THE ETHNIC CLEANSING YOU WANT IN KARELIA AND ALLY WITH THE NAZIS.
glances at my copy of The International Jew, distributed by the Ford Motor Company, a major sponsor of Reuters
You can't blame this on the Finns, because that would set off a witch hunt or something.
Germany between 1941 to 1944 to fight off Soviet invasion (here).
oh wow i had no idea that Operation Barbarossa was actually a soviet invasion :soviet-hmm:
It's only nazism if it comes from the nazi region in Bavaria, otherwise it's just sparkling fascism
The Finnish swastika being the inspiration for the Nazi swastika is much more worse than if it's the other way.
LOL straight from "you can never display a swastika, EVER!!!" to "well we have to consider the context."
Could have come from the mouth of a anime-watching 4chan-posting incel last year. Now it's coming from Reuters.
Or still are. Many people like that don't stop using 4chan when they get older, they just stop being as obvious about it. I wouldn't be surprised if the median age is closer to 40 than 20 there.
I still remember the hand wringing and pearl clutching when an Indian store (India having a close cultural, possibly religious connection with the symbol) featured it, with people saying that the Nazis had forever perverted the symbol and that now it belongs to the world in a negative way and should be consigned to oblivion, and now that it's a European country doing it also for an innocent (but not really) reason it's okay actually and not at all an issue apparently.
When that Indian grocer wants to join NATO we can talk about rehabbing the image
