The European NATO Air Force that still flies swastikas | World | News
A NATO member is preparing to gradually remove the use of a cross in some unit flags to avoid oddity with the allies. After Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine in 2022, Finland, who participated in the alliance, uses swastika crosses that extend far beyond the establishment of the Nazis as a symbol of the Nazis.
Since the Second World War, symbol has become cruelty and evil, but it has a complex history that extends beyond the birth of Adolf Hitler’s fascist party. Change has been planned for years, but the sudden rise to NATO membership has seen that plans have accelerated. Karelia Air Wing The new president of the Air Defense Forces Col. Tomi Bohm said in a report of public publisher YLE: “We could continue with this flag, but sometimes strange situations may occur with foreign visitors. Living with Times can be wise.”
Finish officials say that plans are “an effort to update the symbolism and emblems of flags to better reflect the current identity of the Air Force.”
Teivo Teivainen, Professor of World Politics at Helsinki University, said that the flags were introduced in the 1950s and today flew by four Air Force Units.
The air force and Finnish people insisted that the crowns of the swastika used in the Finnish Air Force for years “have nothing to do with the Nazi Sasis Cross”.
But now, following the integration of Finland with NATO, policy makers said, “Now the swastika is a clearly negative symbol, and there is a need to be more integrated with the powers of countries such as Germany, the Netherlands and France.”
Teivainen, in 2021, German Air Force units, Finland swastika crosses after learning that the exploration of Finland’s Lapland region after the last ceremony, he said.
The Finland Air Force accepted the swastika crossing emblem in 1918 shortly after the country won its independence after an imperial Russian administration of more than a century.
Count Eric von Rosen from neighboring Sweden donated Finland’s first military aircraft in 1918, which carried the personal symbol of the swastika cross.
The Finland Air Force accepted a blue swamp on a white background as a national engagement from 1918 to 1945 from 1918 to 1945. After the war, some Air Force Unit flags and decorations and the Air Force Academy’s engagement images remained for decades.
Defense forces will be published when the work is completed and used for events such as flags parade and local ceremonies.
