• ComradeSalad
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    1 year ago

    Granted, they did start using the swastika 20 years before the Germans did. But the fact they didn’t change it during or after the war is very telling.

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      1 year ago

      It has been changed since (in 1945) and it’s only used very rarely. I think there’s some pride there about lot “letting Nazis ruin the logo”. It was one of major Finnish national symbols prior to Nazis and used since like iron ages. So bit of pride involved there.

      Funny story. Finnish president Urho Kekkonen was visiting French president Charles de Gaulle and gave him a honory knighthood thing. Only problem, the symbolic necklace came with swastikas. Of course de Gaulle wasn’t a huge fan of that and Finns, realizing the issue, later changed the necklace and sent him the new one. Giving de Gaulle a swastika necklace as a present, lol.