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[–] kuiskaaja@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

it was, by the soviets in ww2.

it's just that the fascist ideology has been resurfacing ever since the soviet union collapsed

[–] QinShiHuangsShlong@lemmy.ml 15 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Maybe they were I just find this hard to believe given they were flying swastikas as late as 2023 in their air force.

[–] kuiskaaja@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 week ago

most people saw it as a symbol from the pre-nazi era and brushed over the fact that the symbol's "donor" ended up as a nazi later.

thats at least what i feel like and what i want to believe. maybe its just copium

i think most people here didn't and still don't even know about this fact, i didn't either, until i shifted far to the left