The old emblem for the Finnish Air Force Command (left) featured a swastika, but the current emblem of the force does not. Finnish Ministry of Defense
BBC: Finland's air force quietly drops swastika symbol
It was long a rather surprising choice of imagery for Finland's Air Force Command - a swastika and pair of wings.
The symbol will always be intrinsically linked with Nazi Germany and its crimes, even though its roots go back many thousands of years.
But now it has been confirmed the Air Force Command has quietly stopped using this unit emblem.
The change was first observed by University of Helsinki academic Teivo Teivainen.
He had previously questioned whether the continued use of the symbol was helpful for the Finnish armed forces.
Finland's air force has been using a swastika ever since it was founded in 1918, shortly after the country became an independent nation and long before Nazism devastated Europe.
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More News On Finland's Air Force Getting Rid Of Its Swastika Logo
Finland's air force quietly ditches infamous SWASTIKA symbol from its command insignia -- Daily Mail
Finland's air force removes the swastika from logo after almost a century -- DW
Finland quietly removes swastika logo from its Air Force -- FOX News
Finland scraps pre-Nazi swastika logo from Air Force -- NYPost
Quiet Retirement: Finnish Air Force Reportedly Ditches Swastika Logo -- Sputnik
6 comments:
All these years and not a peep.
Bizarre. I try to follow mil news as closely as possible, and I was never aware that Finland had a swastika on their air force uniform.
I’ve got a set of Kipling’s collected works printed well before the rise of National Socialism. The front covers have Hindu pictures of elephants and swastikas.
I’ve seen history books of pre-Columbian American Indian pottery decorated with swastikas.
The symbol has been around a long time. Still, it’s not such an important symbol that it needs to be rehabilitated and reused. It’s got a lot of nasty connections in the notsodistant past. Good for the Finns.
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