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[–] ReadFanon@hexbear.net 27 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

I know you mean well but this is a myth and there are countless examples of the Nazis using 90 degree swastikas:

Even medals:

And Hitler's own personal standard:

Not to mention in one of the most iconic videos depicting the Nazi swastika:

I'm not trying to drag you here. Fascists use this argument tactically for plausible deniability and it's widely accepted as common knowledge in the west but it's straight up untrue.

[–] Pieplup@hexbear.net 17 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

A year or two ago i had someone join my discord with a swastika in their name and tell me they were just a big fan of the finnish air force.

v finnish airforce flag

[–] ReadFanon@hexbear.net 14 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

Yeah, the Finnish government who was vehemently anticommunist and quite cosy with Nazi Germany has continued using the swastikas to this very day.

"I'm not a Nazi sympathiser, I just love the quiet collaborators of Nazi Germany and their particular use of the swastika" isn't the defense that some people think it is.

[–] Clippy@hexbear.net 10 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

i remember reading that the white army in finland allied with the liberals were known as "the butchers" for their extensive field executions of red army soldiers during the overthrow of the tsar

[–] redchert@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 2 weeks ago

They also sold finns into slavery to the us.

[–] Collatz_problem@hexbear.net 1 points 2 weeks ago

the butchers

Lahtari.

[–] purpleworm@hexbear.net 6 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

And during the Continuation War directly and deliberately assisted the Nazis in committing genocide on Leningrad.

[–] redchert@lemmygrad.ml 4 points 2 weeks ago

Akshually Finland only blocked any supply lines leading out of the besieged city and fired on soviet soldiers, the nazis just happened to attack at the same time!!

[–] Pieplup@hexbear.net 2 points 2 weeks ago

This was some random edgy teenager, i don't think he thought it was a good defence to begin with.

[–] plinky@hexbear.net 13 points 2 weeks ago

this is 0 degrees swastika 🙄

(i'm joking, i don't think that argument flies very well even with reversed swastika on white boy, which people attach to buddhism, but still reads very sus. )