• 陈卫华是我的英雄
    20·
    2 years ago

    Finland’s air force flag had a swastika in it and they kept it for decades after WW2 for some very interesting reason…

    • Shrike502
      9·
      2 years ago

      I remember a few years ago someone mentioned this on Reddit Europe. The comments were some Olympics tier mental gymnastics, scrambling to justify why it totally didn’t mean anything actually

    • Anarcho-Bolshevik
      5·
      2 years ago

      The […] public declaration of a “separate war” was immediately compromised, notably by Finnish defense propaganda: when Finland entered into Operation Barbarossa, Finland was imagined as fighting to save the New Europe—not exclusively Finland—from the “Asian plague.” Given the paradox of fighting a “separate war” to install the racially privileged New Europe, it is difficult not to see an ideological convergence that goes well beyond a merely pragmatic, military relationship between the “brothers-in-arms.”

      (Source.)