Peter Klevius is ashamed that the anti-Communist swastika sign of the pre-Nazi German Freikorps*, who helped the Whites mass murder poor Finns 1918, is still in the Finnish presidential flag** - and reflected in outdated US anti-China propaganda.
* Freikorps used the Swastika exactly as the Nazi party later, i.e. not as a symbol of luck but as a symbol for white Aryan supremacism. When Hermann Göring's close friend von Rosen 1918 gifted two aircraft with the Swastika under the wings to the Whites in March 1918, it was directly connected to the anti-Communist ideology of the Freikorps which Hitler later adopted for the Nazi party. As the swastika was already part of von Rosen's family crest, it was taken out as a symbol against Communism after the 1917 October revolution in Russia. 1918 Freikorps were invited to Finland to slaughter the poor in the Finnish civil war where most of the victims, incl. women and children, died in Finnish concentration camps. von Rosen's and Hermann Göring's anti-Communism was also inspired by US 1917 Red Scare campaign which refers to intense fear and paranoia in the US regarding the perceived threat of Communism and leftist ideologies. In Germany Rosa Luxemburg was harassed and dem...