>>84721687Allow me to interject!
The swastika symbol has its origin in Proto-Indo-European religion as a symbol for good luck. It retained this symbolism from its inception in prehistory (~4500 BC) until the 1940s, for obvious reasons, at least in Europe and North America.
It retained this symbolism in the East due to the prevalence of Buddhism and the lack of anti-German fearmongering due to the reality of the war (if any fearmongering happened in India and Eastern and South-East Asia, it was against the Japanese or the Soviets); the lack of "anti-German fearmongering" also allowed the symbol to retain its importance in Finland (a historic German ally who wasn't in the Tripartite Pact
and who to this day still bases their economy on the NSDAP's 'Neuplan' that was only involved in the war against the Soviets, meaning they were spared the harshest propaganda from the offices of the British MI6 and American OSS), where it was used as the nation's Air Force roundel from its inception (the first FAF plane was donated by a Swedish man, and it had a swastika painted on it for good luck) until 2020, when social media pressure caused by *certain events* would convince the Finns to replace their roundel with an inversion of the Cypriot and Argentinian
why these 2 are able to share a roundel is beyond me, I guess it's a proximity argument? roundel.
In the West, the symbol had extreme prominence during the period between 1900 and 1930, to the point it can be found on streetlights in Whittier, California (installed in 1924), or in masonwork all across the US in buildings from the era (assuming they weren't defaced or torn down).
