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[–] Thomas_Dankara@hexbear.net 1 points 3 years ago

Latvia also has a lot of nazi parades.

[–] hexaflexagonbear@hexbear.net 1 points 3 years ago

They're just trying to show they're committed to nato values

[–] RedundantClam@hexbear.net 1 points 3 years ago

Nazis

Wanting to join NATO

Yeah that tracks

[–] SickleRick@hexbear.net 1 points 3 years ago

That's... how you get in.

[–] build_a_bear_group@hexbear.net 1 points 3 years ago

IDK, that definitely looks like a flag that should belong to a NATO member.

[–] StuporTrooper@hexbear.net 1 points 3 years ago

Future Nato member? 🦃 Isn't there someone you forgot to ask?

[–] Nakoichi@hexbear.net 0 points 3 years ago (1 children)

Got a source for me to link to the libs?

[–] Chapo_is_Red@hexbear.net 1 points 3 years ago (1 children)
[–] invalidusernamelol@hexbear.net 1 points 3 years ago (1 children)

Added as a symbol in 1918, and they kept it to "glorify the history of the Finnish air force" all the way through both WW2 and the Cold War...hmm kinda makes me think that the reason they kept it is because they don't see the other more popular and very geographically close use of the symbol as something bad...

[–] AnarchoMLDialectic@hexbear.net 1 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago)

So a Swedish dude donated a plane to Finland starting their Air Force.

He used the swastika as his personal symbol…

Because he was an aryan supremacist and adopted the symbol due to the popular myth it united the aryan race. Not exactly a Nazi but he was drinking from the same well of aryan race theory and white supremacism, Nordic supremacism, as the most pure aryans, in particular.

Edit: having read the rest of this thread I see I am one of about a dozen people pointing this out. Doing my part.