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    18 days ago

    from 1 (one) cursory search they have been phasing it out, but i just want to highlight some quotes a western rag had to explain the use, part of the longer read, which was just saying “well other finns were using it before hitler!!!”.

    The count used the swastika as a personal good luck charm. When he gifted a plane to the nascent air force of Sweden’s newly independent neighbour in 1918 he had had a blue swastika painted on it. This Thulin Typ D was the first aircraft of the Finnish air force and subsequent planes all had his blue swastika symbol too, until 1945.

    Supporters of a continued use of the symbol point out that there were no Nazis in 1918 so the air force’s use of the swastika has nothing to do with Nazism.

    However, while Eric von Rosen had no Nazi associations at the time of his 1918 gift, he did subsequently become a leading figure in Sweden’s own national socialist movement in the 1930s. He was also a brother-in-law of senior German Nazi Herman Göring, and, according to Prof Teivainen, a personal friend of Hitler.

    oh it’s good to know other finns with no nazi affiliations were using it before hitler! oh what’s that? the named example we gave was in fact affiliated with nazis and hitler? uhh. okay

    https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-53249645

    and then also

    While the emblem of the Finnish Air Force Academy still features a swastika - superimposed with a propeller - the unheralded move away from the old insignia of the central Air Force Command suggests that the military top brass are ready to move on from Count von Rosen and his blue and white swastika.

    ^so … the academy still has it??? lol, even if best case assuming they somehow rlly dont think most finns associate it with it with nazi symbolism, why not just remove it everywhere anyway instead of going halfway??? so silly.

    https://apnews.com/article/finland-swastika-air-force-nato-423a764e6e72abde083f6136e06461c0