This is so bad it’s almost funny, found it trying to find a link for the other finland post, a great article to send to anyone who believes in the fact checking services, like they were nazis, but they just really liked the shape of it so it’s not a nazi thing sweaty, it was a completely different alt right figure who introduced it

  • invalidusernamelol [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    3 years ago

    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.

    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.

    Hmm, who is this Eric von Rosen guy? Wonder why they don’t include a citation for him?

    Oh

    Ah

    How interesting

    I guess they do mention it at the end, but they really bury that lede as deep as they fucking can huh. “Not a Nazi symbol because Germany wasn’t openly fascist the moment that it was put on a Finnish plane by a founding member of the Nazi party”