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Originally Posted by Rilder
Doesn't the Finnish Airforce use a Swastika? Does that make the Finnish Airforce a Nazi Airforce?
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Not anymore, but we used to.
Wikipedia (
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finnish_Air_Force) in its infinite wisdom tells us:
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Von Rosen had painted his personal good luck charm on the Thulin Typ D aircraft. This charm – a blue swastika, the ancient symbol of good luck – was adopted as the insignia of the Finnish Air Force. The white circular background was created when the Finns tried to paint over the advertisement from the Thulin air academy.[5] The swastika was officially taken into use after an order by Mannerheim on 18 March 1918. The FAF had to change the insignia after 1945, due to an Allied Control Commission decree, where the swastika had to be abandoned due to its association with Nazism.
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Edited to add: though as a matter of fact, that article has an interesting picture of the FAF's flag in it. I don't know if they use that anymore, but I'm sure someone else does.