1st--youre very welcome for the help
Tankluver
Do you happen to know why the finns used swastikas on their tanks or was that their actual insignia before the war?
no,didnt happen to know, but all I did was put "Finnish swastica" into Google and
Finland
Flag of the Finnish Air Force
Presidential Standard of Finland
The Finnish Air Force continues to use a swastika as their emblem, originally introduced in 1918. The president of Finland is the grand master of the Order of the White Rose. According to the protocol, the president shall wear the Cross of Liberty with Chains on formal occasions. The original design of the chains, decorated with swastikas, dates from 1918 by the artist Akseli Gallen-Kallela. The Grand Cross with Chains has been awarded 11 times to foreign heads of state. To avoid misunderstandings, the swastika decorations were replaced by fir-crosses at the decision of President Kekkonen in 1963 after Charles De Gaulle indicated he would refuse the award if it carried swastikas. Also a design by Gallen-Kallela of 1918, the Cross of Liberty has a swastika pattern in its arms. The Cross of Liberty is depicted in the upper left corner of the standard of the President of Finland.[74]
In December 2007, a silver replica of the WWII Finnish air defences relief ring decorated with swastika became available as a part of a charity campaign.[75] The original war-time idea was that the public swap their precious metal rings for the State air defences relief ring, made of iron.
A traditional symbol that incorporates a swastika, the tursaansydän, is used by scouts in some instances[76] and a student organization.[77] The village of Tursa uses the tursaansydän as a kind of a certificate of genuineness of products made there.[78] Traditional textiles are still being made with swastikas as a part of traditional ornaments.(From Wikipedia)
also--this from MILITARYPHOTOS.COM
The Finnish swastika
The swastika is an ancient Finnish symbol (dating back to the Iron Age or further) and therefore commonly used in arts and crafts of the period of nationalism - 19th century to the early 20th century. Because the idea of Finland as an independent nation was so new, the need for powerful symbols that reinforced this idea was even greater. The swastika was dynamic, exotic and folkloristic - perfect for art with a message in the late 19th century. Artists who wanted to evoke a "national consciousness" incorporated the symbol in their paintings.
Traditional decorative patterns in Carelian handiwork sometimes include the swastika. Swastika is hakaristi ("hookcross") or vääräpää ("crooked head") in Finnish.
The swastika of the Finnish Defence Forces has its own story. The blue FAF swastika was originally the symbol of luck of the family of Count von Rosen, who donated to the Finnish "White Army" its first plane,a Morane-Saulnier L fighter aircraft, in 1918 during the Civil War. It was adopted as the official national marking of the Finnish Air Forces and later on, the Army. The Finnish women's voluntary defence organization, the Lotta Svärd, also used a swastika as its symbol and it also still appears in many Finnish medals and decorations, in a visually understated manner.
The Finnish swastika has nothing to do with the Nazi party, Nazi ideology or fascism. We Finns, like many other peoples, used it long before the ***. After the fall of the Third Reich, the Finnish Defence Forces abandoned the disreputable swastika in favour of the new national marking; the blue and white roundel.
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And is a polish 7tp thank te same as a T-26, because arent they both from the vickers tank family tree?[/quote]
I think you answered your own question that time
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P.S. Did the finns ever use camo like how the Germans did on their uniforms and In the movie Taliantia 1944 they talk about swedish volunteers, do you think you could ellaborate on that for me? thanks
Another movie I need to see? Is it any good?