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YoshidaYui

(42,714 posts) Mon Dec 5, 2022, 12:06 AM Dec 2022

History of Swastika Understanding It's TRUE Meaning

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History of Swastika Understanding It's TRUE Meaning (Original Post) YoshidaYui Dec 2022 OP

My dad took me to the Springfield. MA armory in the late 60s. OAITW r.2.0 Dec 2022 #1

It's remarkable that the symbol was common to both Asian and Indigenous American cultures. Mister Ed Dec 2022 #2

The historical aspects aside, the Nazis ruined it for the future. Chainfire Dec 2022 #3

During the Second Sino-Japanese War geardaddy Dec 2022 #4

OAITW r.2.0

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1. My dad took me to the Springfield. MA armory in the late 60s.

Reply to YoshidaYui (Original post)

Mon Dec 5, 2022, 12:12 AM

Dec 2022

Saw a lot of Native American Indian Winchester rifles. A bunch had the swastika, but they were opposite of the Nazi swastika...a good luck symbol.

Mister Ed

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2. It's remarkable that the symbol was common to both Asian and Indigenous American cultures.

Reply to OAITW r.2.0 (Reply #1)

Mon Dec 5, 2022, 04:31 AM

Dec 2022

I remember a time when my 6th-grade class took a field trip to the museum. At one point, we saw an exhibit of pre-Columbian native artifacts, some of which were decorated with swastikas. The museum tour guide pointed those out, and explained that they had nothing to do with Naziism, having predated the Nazis by a thousand years or more.

Chainfire

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3. The historical aspects aside, the Nazis ruined it for the future.

Reply to YoshidaYui (Original post)

Mon Dec 5, 2022, 08:47 AM

Dec 2022

Some time back, and I don't remember the source, I read that the universality of the symbol probably arose from an astrological phenomena; as I remember it was suggested that it was a spiral galaxy or perhaps a nova that suddenly appeared in the sky.

The same has happened to other symbols lately. I can no longer signal OK with my fingers, and I had to toss my Hawaiian print shirts. The far right would screw up a wet dream...

geardaddy

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4. During the Second Sino-Japanese War

Reply to YoshidaYui (Original post)

Mon Dec 5, 2022, 03:37 PM

Dec 2022

which coincided with WWII, the Chinese version of the Red Cross was the Red Swastika Society.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Swastika_Society

Regarding Nazis in India, there was actually a faction in WWII who sided with the Empire of Japan and Germany who proposed independence from the UK. Subhas Chandra Bose was allied with both Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subhas_Chandra_Bose

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