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A golfer in central Sweden was shocked to find an abandoned golf ball emblazoned with what he believes to be a “professionally applied” swastika.
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And currently used as the symbol for Buddhism and Hinduism (but mainly outside the West). Hindus use the swastika with four dots between the arms. However, Buddhists often use the swastika within a circle, so perhaps the ball once belonged to a Buddhist?
Historically, the Finnish as Latvian air forces also used swastikas. I find it interesting how a "little good luck" symbol used for thousands of years all over the world can change its meaning as a result of a few years use by the Nazis.
Just as suggestion but
perhaps invading Czcheslovakia, Poland, Denmark, Norway, Holland, Belgium, France, North Africa, Russia
kicking off a world war with 30-50 millions deaths
maybe the concentration camps and the extermination camps
or the persecution of jews, gays, political opponents, slavs.....
for many people the swastika will never be a 'little good luck' symbol' - do you understand.
Great point. I suppose it is because the Commies did not bother Europe with their murderous ways that we do not react so sharply to the Soviet symbol. It is sort of like opening a Chinese restaurant and calling it "Genghis Khan," who we know brutally raped and murdered thousands but it was long ago and far away. Nobody would ever open a Schnitzel stand and call it "Adolf Hitler." I wonder how the hammer and sickle is viewed in former Soviet Bloc societies.
The difference is that the whole idea about nazism was exterminating a race as well as several other groups of people. The idea about communism is an equal division of wealth.
If someone wears a t-shirt with a hammer and sickle he does that because he is for equality, not because he finds it good that Stalin murdered millions of people. If someone wears a t-shirt with a swastika, he does this to show he hates jews.
Do you understand the difference?
If not I can give you another example. Most murders and crimes are commited by men instead of women. If I wear a t-shirt with the symbol for men (the little circle and arrow) will you accuse me of supporting crimes commited by men?
If someone waves an american flag will you accuse him of supporting the killing of vietnamese, latin americans and arabs by the US army? My guess is the person just likes the USA.
Communism was/is more than division of wealth. The Soviet Union and China have horrible human rights records, as is the case with many communist countries. If you simply argue the economic system of communism alone and disregard the human rights element, then the moron that had a swastika symbol could simply say they support National Socialism as an economic model for getting Germans back to work, not the extermination of millions. But we all know the truth in both cases.....neither was good for humanity
Ok i will try to explain this once again.Communism (any of the types) is an ideology for a orld with more euqality, but we all know that in many cases communist society's were not real communist societies but horrible dictatorships (such as Stalins USSR), but those millions of deaths were caused by Stalin being a hitler type moron, not because of the communist ideology. Looking nowadays at a country like Cuba would be a better example.....(the country doing much much much better than all the surrounding islands states that are not communist).
Again, national socialism was based on the ellimination of races of people, and via that way create a 'better' society.
Now if you can't see the difference between these two things I think it is best to go to the library and read up a bit.
So again, T-shirt with hammer and sickle = allright, T-Shirt with picture of Stalin would be the same as one with a sastika.
@rohermoker
Interesting idea. However, people like stalin, mao and the Kim family in North korea are actually more comparable to the old kings in europe or to Sadam or any of the other arab dictators.....only interested in personal gain and consumerism so nothing socialist there.
What a pussy - but what do you expect from a Swedish "Man" He should get back in the kitchen :-)
Stalin's socialism was a Russian authoritarian approach to control of the economy.
Neither had the democratic kind of socialism that involves state intervention in the economy authorized by parties elected by regular elections that the western European nations espoused, and have practised for most of the 20th century.