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    Finland used the swastika before the Nazis. Why do they still?

    Sep 10, 2018 3 minutes
    A blue swastika, the insignia of the Finnish Air Force, is visible on a Finnish fighter plane from the World War II era in the Finnish Air Force Museum in Jyväskylä, Finland.

    When guests, particularly foreigners, enter the soaring hangar of the Finnish Air Force Museum and find themselves confronted by a menagerie of aircraft adorned with swastikas, they are often taken aback.

    “We hasten to explain to visitors, our swastika has nothing to do with the Nazi swastika,” says Kai Mecklin, museum director and a former pilot in the Finnish Air Force (FAF). “The Finnish Air Force adopted the swastika as its logo long before Hitler and the Nazis did.”

    And while the FAF’s practice of putting swastikas on its aircraft ended decades

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