The version that it was Hitler who had the brilliant idea to make the swastika a symbol of the National Socialist movement belongs to the Fuhrer himself and was voiced in Mein Kampf. Probably, for the first time, nine-year-old Adolf saw a swastika on the wall of a Catholic monastery near the town of Lambach.

The swastika has been popular since ancient times. A cross with bent ends appeared on coins, household items, coats of arms since the eighth millennium BC. The swastika personified life, the sun, prosperity. Hitler could see the swastika again in Vienna on the emblem of Austrian anti-Semitic organizations.

By christening the archaic solar symbol the Hakenkreuz (Hakenkreuz is German for hook cross), Hitler claimed the priority of discoverer, even though the idea of ​​the swastika as a political symbol had taken root in Germany before him. In 1920, Hitler, who was an unprofessional and mediocre, but still an artist, allegedly independently designed the party's logo design, proposing a red flag with a white circle in the middle, in the center of which a black swastika was rapaciously spreading hooks.

The red color, according to the leader of the National Socialists, was chosen in imitation of the Marxists, who also used it. Seeing the one hundred and twenty thousandth demonstration of the left forces under the scarlet banners, Hitler noted the active influence of the bloody color on common man. In Mein Kampf, the Fuhrer mentioned the "great psychological significance" of symbols and their ability to powerfully influence emotions. But it was precisely by controlling the emotions of the crowd that Hitler managed to introduce the ideology of his party to the masses in an unprecedented way.

By adding a swastika to the red color, Adolf gave a diametrically opposite meaning to the favorite color scheme of the socialists. By attracting the attention of the workers with the familiar color of the posters, Hitler was "re-recruiting".

The red color in the interpretation of Hitler personified the idea of ​​movement, white - the sky and nationalism, the hoe-shaped swastika - labor and the anti-Semitic struggle of the Aryans. Creative work was mysteriously treated as anti-Semitic.

In general, it is impossible to call Hitler the author of National Socialist symbols, contrary to his statements. He borrowed the color from the Marxists, the swastika and even the name of the party (slightly rearranging the letters) from the Viennese nationalists. The idea of ​​using symbols is also plagiarism. It belongs to the oldest member of the party - a dentist named Friedrich Krohn, who submitted a memorandum back in 1919 to the party leadership. However, in the bible of National Socialism, the book Mein Kampf, the name of the quick-witted dentist is not mentioned.

However, Kron put a different content into the decoding of symbols. The red color of the banner is love for the motherland, white circle- a symbol of innocence for the outbreak of the First World War, the black color of the cross - grief over the loss in the war.

In the interpretation of Hitler, the swastika became a sign of the Aryan struggle against "subhumans". The claws of the cross seem to be aimed at Jews, Slavs, representatives of other peoples who do not belong to the race of "blond beasts".

Unfortunately, the ancient positive sign was discredited by the National Socialists. The Nuremberg Tribunal in 1946 banned Nazi ideology and symbols. The swastika was also banned. AT recent times she is somewhat rehabilitated. Roskomnadzor, for example, admitted in April 2015 that displaying this sign outside of a propaganda context is not an act of extremism. Although the "reprehensible past" cannot be deleted from the biography, the swastika is used by some racist organizations.

Mikhail Zadornov reflects on Trekhlebov's arrest in his blog.

Mikhail Zadornov

The first information appeared why Trekhlebov was arrested: he is accused of using Nazi symbols.

Remember, I once said that instead of taking the best from the Soviet past and our present, we did the opposite? The people who accuse him combine today's illiteracy, lack of education and the Soviet inquisitorial thinking of party workers.

Do they still not know what the swastika means? Hitler's Germany became Nazi not because it took the swastika - ancient sign Sun, but because it declared itself a superior race! Tell me, if Hitler at that time had taken for Germany and for his party the double-headed eagle - also an ancient symbol - would today's sleuth managers consider it among the Nazi symbols? How many of the power-hungry maniacs, who dreamed of conquering the world, used various ancient magic symbols for their success and persuasion of the masses?

Of course, Trekhlebov told his students about the meaning of the swastika. After all, he taught ancient knowledge. About the swastika is known not only to him, but to all scientists in the world. Only our tourists, getting into the Buddhist monasteries of India, exclaim with horror: “What is this disgusting thing?”, Seeing numerous swastikas on the walls or pillars of the monastery.

The swastika is perhaps one of the few symbols as ancient as mankind.

The swastika was found among many peoples in ancient times.

This is the Sun!

First, the Sun was drawn in a circle. Then they began to draw a cross, closed in a circle. This meant that people began to divide space into four parts of the world. They noticed the four main days of the year - two solstices and two equinoxes. Days in which, anywhere on Earth, there is a constant ratio between day and night: the shortest night, the shortest day, and two days when day equals night. And then one of the very ancient "Kulibins" thought of giving this cross a rotation, thereby designating the eternal movement and development, depending on the sun. How can you understand that the drawn cross is spinning? Tie ribbons to the ends of the cross and show in which direction the force of inertia acts! Or show the rays emanating from the center-circle as curved. The image of a rotating cross-sun - archaeologists find in various parts of the world. Many of them cannot be accurately dated. Only one thing is clear - some of them are antediluvian times!

Those who consider the swastika fascist and Nazi symbol, in fact, take the side of ... Hitler!

Yes, the word "swastika" is unpleasant to the ear of a Soviet person. Brought too much trouble Patriotic War. And the swastika remained a symbol of this trouble in memory at a subconscious level. But not on the conscious!

However, many forget that we also had the swastika on banknotes from 1918 to 1922, and even on the sleeve patches of the Red Army.

The swastika is found in Russian northern folk patterns all the time. On towels. On spinning wheels. On vases. In the patterns of platbands… You can’t list everything!

Go to the North of Russia today, you foolish sleuths, and arrest everyone who has such towels!

Moreover, I understand that I will now be attacked by those “edited” by the church, but the swastika was also often depicted on early icons. And there are many examples of that! And there is nothing wrong with that.

Yes, the swastika can be considered a pagan sign. But in Russia, until a certain time, there was officially the so-called dual faith. This meant that people worshiped the cross as a symbol of the Sun and the crucifixion of Christ at the same time. Since Christ, too, for them was the incarnation of the Sun on earth! Go to Sergiev Posad and look at the crosses on the domes - there are suns in the center of the crosses! I asked more than one priest, where do the suns come from on the crosses? Nobody really answered. But they probably know that this tradition - to depict crosses with the sun - has existed since the time of Sergius of Radonezh.

Can you imagine how illiterate our authorities are?!

I repeat once again that the word "swastika" is not the most pleasant for the Russian ear. The Slavs called the solar sign Kolovrat. Solstice. Anti-Slavs claim that there was no such word. Right. It was not in the writings of the clergy monks. And the people had, and still have. It is the people who preserve the living language, while the scientists do not know the living language and often make it dead.

There were two Kolovrats in our Slavic-Russian tradition. One cross revolved around the sun, the other against the sun.

One could talk endlessly about the swastika. Yes, the word is disgusting even for me, who grew up immediately after the war, so I will decipher what it means.

First of all, I repeat that the word "swastika" is not of Slavic origin. Indian, Sanskrit. But Sanskrit is a language invented by the Aryan Brahmins to write down the Vedas in a new place and preserve knowledge. The direct speakers of the Aryan language, in addition to Sanskrit, remained the Slavic languages, so almost all Sanskrit words, if you listen carefully to them, coincide with Russian.

So do not be surprised that the word "swastika" carries a luminous meaning in both Russian and Sanskrit.

"Swa" is light. In the Vedic language, they pronounced “su” in short. And translated as "God's grace." And what if not light is God's grace. After all, from the word "light" - "holy." The word "asti" is "is" in relation to singular third person: he is asti, she is asti. And “ka” in many languages ​​​​of the world, including the one that scientists designate as hypocritical politically correct “Indo-European”, meant “soul”. “Sv / u-asti-ka” - “he / she is the light of the soul”!

Slavic "Kolovrat" means the same - "rotating sun". This has been written about more than once, “kolo” - in ancient times they called the sun. And then, when the letter "c" began to be pronounced as "k" (and vice versa) southern peoples(confused from illiteracy), then “colo” turned into “solo”.

The swastika, or Kolovrat, is the sacred sign of the Aryans. Aryans, long before the formation of slave-owning civilizations known to us, inhabited the entire Eurasian continent. Naturally, they worshiped the Sun. Natural knowledge of the Aryans is practically forgotten. Symbols live longer. Secret knowledge, as a rule, are stored not by scientists. Scientists cling to everything that is revealed. And knowledge in the oral tradition is kept by the people. Ask a Belarusian peasant or any inhabitant of the Kola Peninsula what the swastika means. Unlike many scientists, he will tell you.

By the way, the Kolovrat swastika was depicted very interestingly on the towels. If you look at the towel from one side, the sun rotates clockwise, and if from the other - against! Witty, isn't it? Symbol of eternity: darkness is replaced by light, light is replaced by darkness...

The Inquisition is back - arrested for believing in the sun!

Is it really Trekhlebov's fault that Hitler spliced ​​the swastika with a distraught Germany?! And spoiled her! Moreover, he took only that solar sign that rotates counterclockwise. That is only a sign of darkness!

And the ancient Greeks found the same solar symbol. But they combined it in a pattern called the "river of life."

Our Slavic ancestors by the pattern in which the swastika was “woven” on the bride’s clothes, one could tell what kind it was. Today, using Scottish skirts, you can determine to which surname a noble Scot belongs. The same custom comes from pagan times. But in Scotland, it never occurs to anyone to arrest a man walking down the street in a skirt. Or all the tailors who sew these skirts!

I watched some videos on YouTube with Trekhlebov's speeches. In one of them, he explained to his students that according to the Russian alphabet, love means “people know God”!

And what's wrong with that? Both love and God in one teaching, in one word.

By the way, it’s very interesting, are the investigators who issued a warrant for his arrest, or the prosecutors, I don’t know there, are they Russian people? I mean, their native language is Russian? I recognize nationality by the language in which a person thinks, of course, not by blood and not by the shape of the skull, as was done in Nazi Germany.

Slavs are direct descendants of the Aryans! Sanskritologists who came to Russia more than once from India emphasized that there are no more similar languages ​​in the world than Sanskrit and Russian. The Russian language is great in that it absorbed many Slavic dialects, dialects, pronunciations - it seemed to sum up all the Slavic languages. If two Slavic peoples gather at some conference and do not understand each other in their languages, they switch to Russian. I have met a similar situation more than once in Riga, when the Lithuanians were forced to speak Russian with the Latvians. Although Lithuanian and Latvian are very similar to each other. But the common denominator is still Russian. (Moreover, already at a time when Russian was considered the language of the invaders).

So let's draw the line. Trekhlebov spread knowledge about light, about the sun, and he was arrested!

Just a new version of the legend of Lucifer! After all, Lucifer is also - from the word "light" - "ray". True, he was presented to people as a fallen angel. So what do we have, Trekhlebov the fallen angel?

However, I also have another point of view. Maybe those who arrested him aren't as dumb as they seem. Maybe they just paid for it? And then it's really bad. It's no secret that today they can be arrested either because they paid, or on a call from above. On a call from above hardly. Up there, no one is interested in Trekhlebov. For them, the fallen angel is the one who threw in business, especially in oil or gas. For example, Yulia Tymoshenko or Yushchenko... and others like them.

However, I am not left with the feeling that some sort of disassembly is involved in this matter between today's Slavic communities, always arguing with each other. I'm not sure, I'm not saying ... If this is so, come to your senses! Quarrel, swear, go against each other "wall to wall", but do not betray the desire for Vedic knowledge. If some community that does not like Trekhlebov's views ordered him, then this is a great sin. This is anti-Vedic!

But if the authorities themselves did this, then I propose to arrest about half of the Russian residents in the north of Russia, in Buryatia most of the population, to close the Buryat Buddhist datsans, which, by the way, were opened at the end of the 40s by the decree of ... Stalin! Iosif Vissarionovich allowed to depict a swastika in these datsans! And he must have hated her more than anyone. But he was more literate than today's authorities! A descendant of the ancient Aryan Ossetians, apparently, knew the essence of this sign and understood that the solar symbol itself was not to blame for the horror that Nazi Germany unleashed.

Oh-oh-oh, I almost forgot... In Ivolginsky datsan, where the holy sage Itigelov is located, lamas gave me felt slippers with a swastika on them! I think it's time for me to be arrested. And, along with slippers!

And now tell me, gentlemen who hold power, after all that has been said, will you still continue to believe Hitler, and not our worthy sunny ancestors?

I sympathize with Trekhlebov, but perhaps thanks to his arrest, people will finally clear up a lot for themselves. And it will all end in sunshine.

P.S. By the way, the Soviet party leaders tried to convince the Soviet people that the Hitlerite swastika was invented by Hitler himself and it meant the four combined letters "G": Hitler, Himmler, Goebbels, Goering.

P.P.S. Since my words do not inspire confidence among a part of the population, because I do not have any titles, I suggest reading an article by a real scientist.

Doctor historical sciences, laureate international award them. Jawaharlal Nehru

Natalia GUSEVA

Swastika - a child of millennia

Throughout the history of human civilization, many signs and symbols have accumulated. Are signs immortal? No, in their vast mass they are lost, disappearing from the memory of people. But those that continue to live will probably not be lost in the future. Such eternal signs include, in particular, the sun, the cross and the swastika.

It would seem - what is common between the vicious circle of the sun and the four-pointed cross? Why is the formula "sun and cross" so familiar to hearing? Yes, because these two signs are almost identical. Since ancient times, they have been brought together by such a simple fact as the similarity of astronomical ideas of the ancient inhabitants of different countries. In very distant times, an image of the sun appears with cross lines within a circle. It is assumed that in this way a person tried to express his attitude to the four cardinal points, his understanding of the world order, to depict the main areas of the firmament in their relationship with the sun and its movement.

Who, where and when began to depict the crossed sun, it is impossible to say. At least until all archaeological discoveries in the world are made and dated. The sun with a cross inside the circle appears before us in different parts of the earth. Gradually, the sign of the cross, as it were, is released from the coverage of the solar ring and begins to live its own life. It is sometimes depicted, nevertheless, next to solar rosettes and with circles inside its outline, but more and more often it is in the form of a straight, and sometimes oblique cross.

And in the same deepest impenetrable antiquity, the cross still continued to carry some conventional designations of its connection with the sun, its direct belonging to it. Apparently, it began with the desire of people to portray in some way the very fact of the movement of the sun. And the beginning of this was giving solar circle curved beams. After all, the cross is static, motionless, and changes in its shape do not give it the energy of a steep rotation.

But how to show the movement of the luminary, its rotation? The answer was found - it is necessary to dismember the ring around the cross, leaving its segments only at the four ends of the cross (or at five, or at seven, if the cross was conceived as spokes inside the rim of the wheel of the sun). So the SWASTIKA was born and was born.

In this sense, the images on the vessels from Ancient Mexico are very illustrative.

No one will be able to answer the question of the time and place of such a giving to the cross of a new form, a new meaning, more directly, more expressively connecting it with the sun. But this happened, and among the most ancient symbolic inscriptions appeared new sign.

The sign itself is silent and does not bear any guilt or responsibility. Responsible are people who use it for their own purposes, both plausible and unseemly.

Starting in the 1930s, debates began to flare up around the world about the meaning and historical role swastikas. In Russia, which suffered so severely from the enemy who smashed the country under banners with the sign of the swastika, this hostility has become firmly established in the souls of people and has not faded for half a century, especially in the souls of the older generation. But, nevertheless, the prohibition of the sign in the country, or region, or city looks like: the swastika sign has a too deep and ancient destiny.

It is important to turn to India for the reason that archaeologists and historians have found very few images of swastikas on monuments from other Asian countries close to India. The literature mentions only one ancient image of this sign, attributed to the same and even deeper antiquity - this is a swastika at the bottom of a vessel from Samaria, which is dated (or, more precisely, it is customary to date) the 4th millennium BC. Who created this many other found things that speak of the high development of the culture of the local population, who created prosperous cities and a developed agricultural civilization here?

It was one of the oldest civilizations on earth, most often mentioned in books under the name of the civilization of the Indus Valley, or the civilization of Harappa (after the name of one of the local cities). This civilization is called pre-Aryan, because its heyday fell on the 4th-3rd millennium BC, i.e. for those centuries when the tribes of nomadic pastoralists of the Aryans were just moving towards India through the lands of Eastern Europe, and then Central Asia. Where did their long movement begin? According to a theory widely spread in science, known as the northern, or Arctic, the ancestors of the Aryans ("Aryans") originally lived, along with the distant ancestors of all peoples who spoke Indo-European languages, in the lands of the Arctic.

The swastika, that is, a cross with curved ends, is known to many peoples, including the Slavs, with long time ago. The ends of the swastika can be bent both clockwise and counterclockwise. Its color can be different, there are different options for shapes and location. Banned fascist swastika on the Nuremberg Trials like Nazi symbols. Our Red Army soldiers also once wore a swastika on their uniforms.

This symbol - the swastika was used by the ancient Aryans, Slavs and other peoples from time immemorial. It's just that Hitler made the swastika the symbol of his party, and when he came to power, the symbol of the Third Reich.

Denotes the symbol of the Sun, the Solstice.

The swastika is one of the most widely used graphic symbols that has been used by many peoples of the world since ancient times. This symbol was present on clothes, coats of arms, weapons, household items. In Sanskrit swasti means happiness. In America, these are four letters L four words Love - love, Life -life, Luck - fate, luck, Light - light.

Hitler made the swastika a symbol of Nazi Germany and since then the attitude towards it has changed. She became a symbol of Nazism, barbarism, misanthropy. The Nazi swastika was a black hoe-shaped cross with the ends pointing to the right side and rotated at an angle of 45 degrees. After the Second World War, the image of the swastika was banned in a number of countries.

The German swastika appeared during the reign of Hitler. He approved it as a symbol of the Aryan nation.

But the swastika appeared before Hitler's Germany, and for many peoples meant the symbol of the Sun, solar energy. True, these two swastikas differ in that the corners of the cross are turned in the other direction.

The swastika is a cross with continued sides, both clockwise and counterclockwise.

It gained great popularity after the Second World War, when the Nazis made the swastika with the sides turned clockwise as their symbol and became famous all over the world ...

In fact, the swastika appeared a very long time ago and was a symbol of many peoples, mostly on the positive side - it meant movement, the sun or together: the movement of the sun, as well as light and in many ways well-being ...

Germany acquired this symbol in the summer of 1920, then Hitler approved it as a symbol of the party in which he was the leader ...

By the way, Hitler thought that this symbol - the swastika actually reflected the struggle of the Aryans and as a triumph of the victory of the Aryan race ...

Is the swastika an ancient graphic symbol? or ?, which was used by almost all nations in the world, but Nazi Germany used the swastika sign as a symbol of Nazism and because of this coincidence, everyone thinks that it is forbidden.

The German swastika is not just any swastika used by all peoples as a symbol of the Sun and prosperity.

The Nazi swastika has distinctive features- This is a quadrangular cross with corners bent at 45 degrees and turning to the right. For comparison, the Suasti (Kolovrat among the Slavs) is turned to the left. Well, the color scheme different peoples to designate the symbol of the sun is different

The Nazis took the idea of ​​the swastika from Indian culture.

In India, swastika - this is a visual embodiment of the sound Omquot ;:



The Nazis, without the knowledge of the Indians, took the idea of ​​\u200b\u200bthis sign from them and distorted the meaning of the symbol.

Even the word Aryans taken from the Indian Aryaquot ;, which means the highest, pure.

In India, this word is used in positive value: suave, refined, scholarly, and the Nazis called the Aryans the highest class of people.

Many Germans behaved somewhat like Hindus. Himmler practiced yoga, called himself a kshatriya (the second most important caste in India), and claimed to have waged a just war.



The Nazis received new spiritual knowledge from India from the spy Savitri Devi. She gave Hitler all the information about the customs of India, and the SS leader remade everything to his tune.



Repeating the traditions of the Hindus in his country, Hitler wanted to become the last avatar of Vishnu - Kalki. God in this incarnation was supposed to destroy everything impure and repopulate the planet. This was Hitler's key idea - he wanted to remove unworthy and leave on the planet people of the highest rank - the Aryans.

Is the swastika banned?

The swastika is now prohibited only in the Hitlerite version. I am from Kyiv, and somehow I saw how opposite the building Verkhovna Rada strange people gathered in identical outfits with an image very similar to a swastika. Turns out they were Hindus. Thus, they showed that you can put up with everything, and that you need to be wiser (I talked with them).

And never blindly believe in anything! The Germans believed Hitler, and what did this lead to? Analyze, don't be fooled and be fair. No philosophy or idea is worthy of existence if it divides people.

The German swastika is the opposite of the sun. It is prohibited everywhere. I know for sure that in Germany it is still banned. In many computer games, the swastika was replaced by another symbol, especially for Germany.

In general, the swastika is a symbol of the Sun, good luck, happiness and creation. It was used at all times and by all peoples, and they probably began to ban it after the Nazis began to use it.

The swastika is a graphic symbol. Different nations at different times had their own images of the swastika. The most commonly used 4-ray swastika. Hitler himself approved the German swastika as a symbol of the workers' party. She represented

I was forced to turn to this topic by long-term observations and reflections on certain stable forms in architecture, religious and state symbols, folk celebrations and everything that usually falls under the concept of "tradition". Traditions are passed down from generation to generation and preserved for centuries and millennia, sometimes they outlive the states, languages ​​and ethnic groups that created them. Traditions carry historical information no less, and perhaps even more, than ancient papyri and books, but we still do not know how to extract this information.

Tradition Four

Swastika or Kolovrat

The swastika was found on clay vessels from the territory of modern Iraq, which date back to the 5th millennium BC, and in ornaments on ceramics of the South Ural Andronovo culture. The left- and right-handed swastika is found in pre-Aryan culture in the Indus River basin and in ancient China around 2000 BC (http://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D1%E2%E0%F1%F2%E8%EA %E0).

In 1874, Heinrich Schliemann discovered images of the swastika during the excavations of Homeric Troy. During the Celtic period, the swastika was depicted on the altars of druidic cults, it was often used in religious rituals. The history of this symbol goes back thousands of years, to the times of Ancient Egypt and India. It is interpreted and how ancient symbol fertility, and as a symbol of the sun, and as the hammer of Thor - the god of thunder, storm and fertility.

The concept of building a single brick of the Universe was developed, which is used in all hierarchical structures of the Universe, regardless of its size, be it a photon, an atom or a Galaxy. According to this concept, any hierarchical structure must be symmetrical - simultaneously located in two proper spherical spaces: left-handed and right-handed, between which exchange processes take place. In this case, one of the spaces (right) is radiating dynamic, and the other (left) is absorbing. These spaces are not mirror images of each other, they are asymmetrical.

According to the Tao, the Universe is powered by the energy of two principles: the active radiating masculine principle Yang (in our case, this is the right space) and the passive absorbing female Yin (left space).

One gets the impression that the division of Nature into living and non-living is an invention of man. Nature itself does not make such distinctions: both in one and in the other, the same type of metabolic processes take place. An example of this is the ancient mysterious sign Swastikas are both a symbol of the Universe and Eternity, and a symbol of the movement of matter at all hierarchical levels of its existence - be it an atom, a galaxy, a mineral, a living cell or a person.

However, due to the interpretations of medieval European scholastics, as well as the criminal actions of the Nazis, there was a gross injustice: the swastika was dishonored and survived its spiritual death, turning from a symbol of Eternal Life into a force of destruction. But let's hope that this phenomenon is temporary and justice will prevail.

Translated from Sanskrit, "swastika" means "a symbol of pure being and well-being." In India, Tibet, Mongolia and China, swastika signs still adorn the domes and gates of temples. Hitler, when he decided to make the swastika a state symbol, hoped that the swastika would bring him and the Third Reich good luck, but in his deeds he was clearly not moving in the direction of the Right (the right-hand direction of the swastika), so the swastika led the Third Reich to defeat.

In society after the Second World War, an extremely negative attitude towards the swastika was strengthened, for some reason the peoples of the world considered that the fault of this war was not Adolf Hitler and his party, but the swastika, a symbol that was widespread during the time of the Aryans.

Poor swastika! So the fascists have corrupted you with their crazy ideas and their criminal actions!

But a lot of time has passed since the Soviet soldiers set the red flag of victory at the Reichstag, there are few veterans of that war left alive for whom the swastika is just fascist sign and nothing more. But the swastika, or Kolovrat, is the oldest Aryan symbol, most likely a talisman, and not a sign of aggression. This is also a Russian sign, and it is no less Russian than German, because the ancestral home of the Aryans is the territory of the European part of Russia-Russia, and the Aryans of Western Europe and the Aryans of India and Pakistan are those who left the ancestral home of their ancestors in search of the promised lands.

Therefore, it turns out that fascist Germany in 1941 attacked its albeit distant, but relatives, who turned out to be more faithful to the customs of distant Aryan ancestors than the Germans. So maybe the Kolovrat in the military uniform of the Nazis did not help them, but helped us - Russian-Russian-Soviet? This is the question we are now trying to figure out.

It turns out that the sleeve emblems of the soldiers and officers of the Red Army of the South-Eastern Front in 1918 were also decorated with a swastika with the abbreviation of the RSFSR. This symbol is often found in ancient Russian ornaments in the Arkhangelsk and Vologda regions, he traditionally decorated the dwellings and clothes of the Rus. Found by archaeologists in 1986 on Southern Urals ancient city Arkaim had the structure of a swastika. Having studied the distribution of the swastika in space and time, I was convinced that this symbol is even more ancient than the Aryan past, otherwise how could it have been among the Indians of North America?

It is believed that the swastika is a very ancient Aryan symbol, in Russia he was better known than in Germany. This is a symbol of cycles in nature and society - Kolovrat. The basis of the Kolovrat is an equilateral cross. But the cross is static and does not symbolize movement, while the Kolovrat is dynamic and symbolizes the cyclical nature of time. It can indicate either right or left rotation. Drawing from the site:

Even the structure of the Galaxy reflects the symbol of the swastika - Kolovrat. Atmospheric cyclones have a similar structure. Photos from the site: http://707.livejournal.com/302950.html

In ancient times, when runes were still used for writing in Russia, the swastika meant "Coming from Heaven." It was the rune SVA - Heaven (Svarog - heavenly god). (Information from the site: http://planeta.moy.su/blog/svastika)

Galaxies are also twisted into different sides. In the photo on the left, the galaxy rotates to the left, and in the photo on the right, it rotates to the right. What this is connected with is still unknown. One can only assume that the ejection of matter from a black hole located in the center of Galaxies is asymmetric, more of it is ejected in one direction and at a higher speed. Both photos are taken from the NASA website.

The swastika was often embroidered on towels, bedspreads, pillows and clothes as a talisman. In this photo we see Kolovrat with both right and left rotation. I don't think these women share Hitler's views. Photo from the site: http://soratnik.com/rp/35_37/35_37_7.html

The word "swastika" is complex and consists of two Aryan words: "swa" - heaven and "tic" - movement, running. Photo from the site: http://truetorrents.ru/torrent-2212.html

It is surprising that both the Slavs, and the Balts, and the Ugrofins depicted a swastika on their clothes and towels. Photo from the site: http://707.livejournal.com/302950.html

On the hood of the car of Tsar Nicholas II there is a left-handed swastika. The appearance of the swastika at the court of the last Russian tsar is associated with the influence of the Buryat doctor Pyotr Badmaev, who preached Tibetan medicine and maintained ties with Tibet, on the empress. Perhaps this is so, but the swastika has been a traditional Aryan symbol of Russia since ancient times. Photo from the site: http://707.livejournal.com/302950.html

The swastika continues to be used in the US to this day. In Squaw Valley in 2000, they tried to accuse a cattle owner of sympathizing with Nazism only on the grounds that he branded cattle with a swastika brand inherited from his fathers and grandfathers.

In 1995, in the town of Glendale (California), a group of anti-fascists tried to force the city authorities to replace 930 lampposts installed on the streets of the city in 1924-1926, since their cast-iron pedestals of these pillars are surrounded by an ornament of swastikas. The local local history society had to prove that the poles, purchased at one time from a metallurgical company from Ohio, had nothing to do with the Nazis, and therefore could not offend anyone's feelings in any way, and the swastika design was based on the local traditions of the Navajo Indians (http ://www.slavianin.ru/svastika/stati/vedicheskie-simvoly-v-amerike.html).

The swastika with a lily in the center was depicted on the "badges of gratitude" among the Boy Scouts until 1940. The founder of the Scouting movement Robert Baden-Powell then explained that it depicts a schematic map of Atlantis with 4 rivers flowing from a single center.

Objects with the image of the swastika are often found by archaeologists during excavations in different parts Europe and Asia. Sometimes the swastika adorns weapons, and more often quite peaceful things like pots and combs.

Etruscan gold jewelry found in Italy. It depicts a dextrorotatory swastika, and some signs-images go around the circle. Photos from the site: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Etruscan_pendant_with _swastika_symbols_Bolsena_Italy_700_BCE_to_650_ BCE.jpg

Swastika on an ancient German crest. But this swastika is left-handed, and not right-handed, which was practiced in Nazi Germany. Photo from the site: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Etruscan_pendant_with _swastika_symbols_Bolsena_Italy_700_BCE_to_650_BCE.jpg

Left-handed swastika royal family in Russia it was used as a talisman and as a symbolic reflection of the personality of the tsar. Before her execution in 1918, the former empress drew a swastika on the wall of the Ipatiev house. The owner of the photograph of this swastika was General Alexander Kutepov. Kutepov kept the icon found on the body of the former empress.

Inside the icon was a note in which the Green Dragon Society was commemorated. The Green Society, akin to the Thule Society, is still in Tibet today. Before Hitler came to power, a Tibetan lama lived in Berlin, nicknamed "the man in green gloves." Hitler visited him regularly. This lama allegedly reported to the newspapers three times without error how many Nazis would pass in the elections to the Reichstag. Initiates called the lama "the holder of the keys to the kingdom of Agharti."

In 1926, Tibetans and Hindus appeared in Berlin and Munich. When the Nazis gained access to the finances of the Reich, they began to send large expeditions to Tibet; these studies were not interrupted until 1943. On the day when Soviet troops ended the battle for Berlin, among the corpses of the last defenders of Nazism, about a thousand bodies of people from Tibet were found.

The ignorant London reviewers of the film about the Romanovs called Empress Alexandra Feodorovna a "fascist Brunnhilde." And the empress only consecrated the house of Ipatiev, according to the ancient Aryan tradition, with a "charm", anticipating the end of life.

Once upon a time, the ancient Aryans, who moved from the regions of the Russian Plain to the south and southeast, brought the swastika to Mesopotamia, Central Asia, Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan and India - this is how the swastika got into cultures Eastern peoples. She was depicted on the painted dishes of ancient Susiana (Mesopotamian Elam on the eastern coast of the Persian Gulf in the 3rd millennium BC). So the swastika may have entered the ancient cultures of non-Indo-European peoples. Somewhat later, the Semitic peoples began to use the swastika: the ancient Egyptians and the Chaldeans, whose state was located on the western shore of the Persian Gulf.

Today, the swastika is considered by the Indians a symbol of movement and the eternal rotation of the world - the "cycle of samsara." This symbol was allegedly imprinted on the heart of the Buddha and is therefore sometimes called the "Seal of the Heart". It is placed on the chest of those initiated into the mysteries of Buddhism after their death.

Later, the swastika entered Tibet, then Central Asia and China. A century later, she appeared in Japan and Southeast Asia, along with Buddhism, which made her its symbol. In Japan, the swastika is called a manji. Here it can be seen on the flags, armor and family crests of the samurai.

Together with Buddhism from India, the swastika entered Japan. In Japan, the swastika is called Manji. The image of the manji can be seen on the flags, armor and family crests of the samurai. Photo from the site: http://707.livejournal.com/302950.html

In the ancient temples of Mesopotamia, you can find just such a left-handed swastika, lined with mosaics on the walls. Photo from the site: http://707.livejournal.com/302950.html

Ancient dishes from Asia Minor were decorated with swastika ornaments. Photo from the site: http://www.slavianin.ru/svastika/stati/ vedicheskie-simvoly-v-amerike.html

Eastern Middle-earth, Crete. Dextrorotatory swastika on a coin, 1500-1000 BC. Photo from the site: http://sv-rasseniya.narod.ru/xronologiya/9-vedicheskie-simvoly.html/img/foto-69.html

The swastika is considered an Aryan symbol of the unity of the heavenly forces of fire and wind with the forces of the earth. The altars of the Aryans were decorated with a swastika, and these places were considered holy, protected from evil. The name "swastika" comes from the Sanskrit term "suasti" - prosperity under the Sun, and expressed the concept of "wheel", "disk", or "circle of eternity", divided into 4 sectors. In China and Japan, the hieroglyphs of the swastika mean wishes for longevity under the Sun. Photo from the site: http://707.livejournal.com/302950.html

The swastika was used not only by the Sumerians, Etruscans, ancient Greeks, Romans, it is known not only in Hinduism and Buddhism. This symbol can be found among Christians, and even among Jews in synagogues.

According to legend, Genghis Khan wore a ring with a swastika on his right hand, into which a magnificent ruby ​​\u200b\u200bwas set - a sun stone. In the oldest synagogue in Israel, the Swastika is depicted on the floor, although it is believed that the Jews are almost the only tribe that does not consider the swastika a sacred symbol.

It was unexpected for me to learn that the swastika was used not only by the Aryan peoples. It was also known by the Indians in North America, and they knew and used it long before the Europeans arrived there. Where did the Navajo Indians get the swastika from?

The Navajo and Zuni Indian tribes living in the state of California and preserving their ancient way of life until the first third of the 20th century used the swastika in ornaments on quilts. Photo from the site: http://www.slavianin.ru/svastika/stati/vedicheskie-simvoly-v-amerike.html

The Indians continue to use the swastika to this day. You can meet her at the Shaffer Hotel (Shaffer Hotel) in New Mexico, as well as royal museum province of Saskatchewan in Canada, on a building in the state New England. Photo from the site: http://www.slavianin.ru/svastika/stati/vedicheskie-simvoly-v-amerike.html

In February 1925, the Kuna Indians in Panama (Mesoamerica) announced the creation of an independent republic of Tula. On the banner of this republic, they depicted a left-handed swastika, which, it turns out, was an ancient symbol of this tribe. In 1942, the flag was slightly changed so as not to be associated with Nazi Germany. A nose ring was put on the swastika. In 1940, at a general meeting of the tribes from Arizona - the Navajo, Papagos, Apaches and Hopi - the Indians abandoned the use of the swastika in all its forms in national costumes and products as a protest against Nazism, and 4 leaders signed the corresponding document. However, at present, the Indians continue to use the swastika. Photo from the site: http://www.slavianin.ru/svastika/stati/vedicheskie-simvoly-v-amerike.html On the right is a childhood photograph of Jacqueline Bouvier, future wife American President John F. Kennedy, where she is in an Indian dress with a swastika. Photo from the site: http://www.slavianin.ru/svastika/stati/vedicheskie-simvoly-v-amerike.html

The Kolovrat-swastika was imprinted by ancient Aryans in the Neolithic on mammoth tusks. Under the golden Kolovrat on a scarlet banner, Prince Svyatoslav went to Constantinople and the Khazars. This symbol was used by pagan magi in rituals associated with the ancient Slavic Vedic Faith, and is still embroidered by Vyatka, Kostroma, Arkhangelsk and Vologda needlewomen.

After a period of oblivion, the swastika again became popular in European culture in the XIX century as a sign of Light, Sun, Love, Life. But this is its modern interpretation, and not its meaning in religious cults.

As for the origins of the swastika, it can be unequivocally stated that this is a very ancient sign, unfortunately discredited in the 20th century by the German fascists. I think that he undoubtedly has Aryan roots and at one time was carried by Aryan tribes throughout the Earth. This happened, probably, at least 12-15 thousand years ago. Then on globe there were two civilizations - the Atlanteans (or the peoples of the sea) and the Aryans (or the peoples of the land). Relations between them were not at all peaceful. If the Atlanteans influenced different ethnic groups, capturing the sea coasts, where they had numerous fortress cities, and interacted with the local population from them, then the Aryans lived in the depths of the continents, where the Atlanteans could not disturb them much.

Plato mentions this when he writes that the ancestors of the ancient Greeks opposed the Atlanteans in the eastern Mediterranean. The Aryan origin of the ancient Greeks is beyond doubt. But the eastern Mediterranean, the Mediterranean and Atlantic coasts of Africa and the Atlantic coasts of Europe, were probably completely controlled by the Atlanteans.

When Atlantis plunged into the depths of the sea, only its city-colonies and those Atlanteans and half-breeds of the Atlanteans with the natives who inhabited these colonies survived.

The civilization of the Aryans during the global catastrophe probably suffered less, especially on elevated plateaus, where the wave of the catastrophic tsunami ( global flood) did not reach. But the distant descendants of the Atlanteans and Aryans for several millennia forgot about whose symbol was the trident, and whose symbol was the swastika, and began to use both. I do not exclude the possibility that already in Atlantis itself, before the catastrophe, both symbols were used. Otherwise, how would the swastika get to the Indians of North America?

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Swastika(Skt. स्वस्तिक from Skt. स्वस्ति, svasti, greeting, good luck) - a cross with curved ends ("rotating"), directed either clockwise (this is the movement of the earth around the sun), or counterclockwise.

(Old Ind. svastika, from su, lit. "associated with good"), one of the most archaic symbols, already found in the images of the Upper Paleolithic, in the ornament of many peoples in different parts of the world.

The swastika is one of the most ancient and widespread graphic symbols. "The symbol of the swastika crystallizes from the rhombo-meander ornament, which first appeared in the Upper Paleolithic, and then inherited by almost all peoples of the world." The oldest archaeological finds with the image of a swastika date back to approximately 25-23 millennium BC (Mezin, Kostenki, Russia).

The swastika was used by many peoples of the world - it was present on weapons, objects everyday life, clothes, banners and coats of arms, was used in the design of churches and houses.
The swastika as a symbol has many meanings, in most nations they are positive. The swastika among most ancient peoples was a symbol of the movement of life, the Sun, light, prosperity.

Celtic Kermaria Stone, 4th century BC

The swastika reflects the main type of movement in the Universe - rotational with its derivative - translational and is able to symbolize philosophical categories.

In the 20th century, the swastika (German: Hakenkreuz) became famous as a symbol of Nazism and Nazi Germany, and in Western culture is steadily associated precisely with the Hitlerite regime and ideology.

History and meaning

The word "swastika" is a compound of two Sanskrit roots: सु, su, "good, good" and अस्ति, asti, "life, existence", that is, "well-being" or "well-being". There is another name for the swastika - "gammadion" (Greek γαμμάδιον), consisting of four Greek letters "gamma". The swastika is considered not only as a solar symbol, but also as a symbol of the fertility of the earth. This is one of the ancient and archaic solar signs - a pointer visible movement Sun around the Earth and the division of the year into four parts - four seasons. The sign fixes two solstices: summer and winter - and the annual movement of the Sun. Has the idea of ​​four cardinal points, centered around an axis. The swastika also suggests the idea of ​​movement in two directions: clockwise and counterclockwise. Like "Yin" and "Yang", a dual sign: rotating clockwise symbolizes male energy, counterclockwise - female. In ancient Indian scriptures, male and female swastikas are distinguished, which depicts two female, as well as two male deities.

White glazed netted orch, Yi Dynasty

The swastika personifies a moral characteristic: movement along the sun is good, against the sun is evil. (()) In the symbolism of auspiciousness, the sign is depicted in the form of a cross with the ends bent at an angle or oval (in the clockwise direction), which means “screwing” the energies , flow hold physical strength in order to control the lower forces. The right-handed swastika is perceived as a sign of dominance over matter and control of energy (as in yoga: holding the body immobile, “screwing up” the lower energies makes it possible for the higher forces of the energies to manifest themselves). Left handed swastika, on the contrary, means unwinding the physical and instinctive forces and creating an obstacle to the passage higher powers; the direction of movement favors the mechanical, earthly side, the exclusive striving for power in matter. The counterclockwise swastika is also seen as a symbol of black magic and negative energies. How solar sign, the swastika serves as an emblem of life and light. It is perceived as an incomplete zodiac circle or as a wheel of life. Sometimes the swastika is identified with another solar sign- a cross in a circle, where the cross is a sign of the daily movement of the Sun. As a symbol of the Sun, an archaic coiled swastika with a symbol of a ram is known. A symbol of rotation, continuous movement, expressing the invariance of the solar cycle, or the rotation of the Earth around its axis. A rotating cross, the blades at the ends of which represent the movement of light. The swastika contains the idea of ​​eternal overcoming of the inertia of the square by the wheel of rotation.

The swastika is found in the culture of the peoples of many countries of the world: in the symbols of Ancient Egypt, in Iran, in Russia, in the ornaments of different communities. One of the oldest forms of the swastika is Asia Minor and is an ideogram of the four cardinal points in the form of a figure with four cross-shaped curls. Back in the 7th century BC, images similar to the swastika were known in Asia Minor, consisting of four cross-shaped scrolls - rounded ends are signs of cyclic movement. There are interesting coincidences in the image of Indian and Asia Minor swastikas (dots between the branches of the swastika, jagged thickenings at the ends). Other early forms swastikas - a square with four plant-like roundings along the edges are a sign of the earth, also of Asia Minor origin. The swastika was understood as a symbol of the four main forces, the four cardinal points, the elements, the seasons and the alchemical idea of ​​the transformation of the elements.

In the cultures of countries

The swastika is one of the most archaic sacred symbols, already found in the Upper Paleolithic among many peoples of the world. India, Ancient Russia, China, Ancient Egypt, the Mayan state in Central America - this is the incomplete geography of this symbol. Swastika symbols denoted calendar signs back in the days of the Scythian kingdom. The swastika can be seen on old Orthodox icons. The swastika is a symbol of the Sun, good luck, happiness, creation (the “correct” swastika). And, accordingly, the swastika of the opposite direction symbolizes darkness, destruction, the “night Sun” among the ancient Russians. As can be seen from ancient ornaments, in particular, on jugs found in the vicinity of Arkaim, both swastikas were used. It has deep meaning. Day replaces night, light replaces darkness, new birth replaces death - and this is the natural order of things in the Universe. Therefore, in ancient times there were no "bad" and "good" swastikas - they were perceived in unity.

The first swastika drawings appeared on early stage the addition of the symbolism of the Near East Neolithic cultures. Swastika-like figure 7 thousand BC from Asia Minor consists of four cruciform scrolls, i.e. signs of vegetation, and, obviously, is one of the variants of the ideogram of the concept of "four cardinal points". The memory that the swastika once symbolized the four cardinal directions is recorded in medieval Muslim manuscripts, and has also survived to our time among American Indians. Another swastika-like figure, belonging to the early stage of the Asia Minor Neolithic, consists of the sign of the Earth (a square with a dot) and four plant-like appendages adjoining it. In such compositions, one should, apparently, see the origin of the swastika - in particular, its variant with rounded ends. The latter is confirmed, for example, by the ancient Cretan swastika, combined with four plant elements.

This symbol was found on clay vessels from Samarra (the territory of modern Iraq), which date back to the 5th millennium BC. The swastika in the left and right rotation form is found in the pre-Aryan culture of Mohenjo-Daro (Indus River basin) and ancient China around 2000 BC. In Northeast Africa, archaeologists have found a burial stele of the kingdom of Meroz, which existed in the 2nd-3rd centuries AD. The fresco on the stele depicts a woman entering into afterworld, the swastika also flaunts on the clothes of the deceased. The rotating cross also adorns the golden weights for scales that belonged to the inhabitants of Ashanta (Ghana), and the clay utensils of the ancient Indians, and the carpets of the Persians. The swastika was on almost all amulets among the Slavs, Germans, Pomors, Skalvians, Curonians, Scythians, Sarmatians, Mordovians, Udmurts, Bashkirs, Chuvashs and many other peoples. In many religions, the swastika is an important religious symbol.

Ancient Greek Funerary Vessel, circa 750 B.C. BC.

Details of an ancient Greek burial vessel

The swastika in India has traditionally been seen as a solar sign - a symbol of life, light, generosity and abundance. It was closely associated with the cult of the god Agni. She is mentioned in the Ramayana. In the form of a swastika, a wooden tool was made to produce the sacred fire. They laid him flat on the ground; the recess in the middle served for the rod, which was rotated until the appearance of fire, kindled on the altar of the deity. It was carved in many temples, on the rocks, on the ancient monuments of India. Also a symbol of esoteric Buddhism. In this aspect, it is called the "Seal of the Heart" and, according to legend, was imprinted on the heart of the Buddha. Her image is placed on the hearts of the initiates after their death. Known as the Buddhist cross (it resembles a Maltese cross in shape). The swastika is found everywhere where there are traces of Buddhist culture - on rocks, in temples, stupas and on Buddha statues. Together with Buddhism, it penetrated from India to China, Tibet, Siam and Japan.

Torso of a female sculpture, 6th century BC

In China, the swastika is used as a sign of all the deities worshiped in the Lotus School, as well as in Tibet and Siam. In ancient Chinese manuscripts, it included such concepts as "region", "country". Known in the form of a swastika are two curved mutually truncated fragments of a double helix, expressing the symbolism of the relationship between "Yin" and "Yang". In maritime civilizations, the double helix motif was an expression of the relationship between opposites, a sign of the Upper and Lower Waters, and also meant the process of becoming life. Widely used by Jains and followers of Vishnu. In Jainism, the four arms of the swastika represent the four levels of existence.

Swastika in India

On one of the Buddhist swastikas, each blade of the cross ends in a triangle indicating the direction of movement and crowned with an arch of a flawed moon, in which, like in a boat, the sun is placed. This sign represents the sign of the mystical arba, the creative quaternary, also called Thor's hammer. A similar cross was found by Schliemann during the excavations of Troy. In Eastern Europe, Western Siberia, Central Asia and the Caucasus, it occurs from the II-I millennium BC. In Western Europe it was known to the Celts. Depicted in pre-Christian Roman mosaics and on the coins of Cyprus and Crete. An ancient Cretan rounded swastika made of plant elements is known. The Maltese cross in the form of a swastika of four triangles converging in the center is of Phoenician origin. It was also known to the Etruscans. In early Christianity, the swastika was known as the gamma cross. According to Guénon, until the end of the Middle Ages it was one of the emblems of Christ. According to Ossendowski, Genghis Khan wore on his right hand a ring depicting a swastika, into which was set a magnificent ruby ​​- a sun stone. Ossendovsky saw this ring on the hand of the Mongol governor. At present, this magical symbol is known mainly in India and Central and East Asia.

Swastika in Russia

In Russia, swastika symbols have been known since ancient times.

The rhombo-meander swastika ornament in the Kostenkovo ​​and Mezin cultures (25-20 thousand years BC) was studied by V. A. Gorodtsov.

How special kind swastikas, symbolizing the rising Sun-Yarila, the victory of Light over Darkness, Eternal Life over death, was called Kolovrat (literally, “wheel rotation”, the Old Slavic form Kolovrat was also used in the Old Russian language).

In Russian folk ornamentation, the swastika was one of the common figures until the end of the 19th century.

The swastika was used in rituals and construction, in homespun production: in embroideries on clothes, on carpets. The swastika was used to decorate household utensils. She was also present on the icons
In the St. Petersburg Necropolis, Glinka's grave is crowned with a swastika.

In post-war children's legends, it was widely believed that the swastika consists of 4 letters "G", symbolizing the first letters of the names of the leaders of the Third Reich - Hitler, Goebbels, Himmler, Goering.

Swastika in India

In pre-Buddhist ancient Indian and some other cultures, the swastika is usually interpreted as a sign of auspicious destinies, a symbol of the sun. This symbol is still widely used in India and South Korea, and most weddings, holidays and festivities cannot do without it.

Swastika in India

Buddhist symbol of perfection (also known as manji, "whirlwind" (Jap. まんじ, "ornament, cross, swastika")). The vertical line indicates the relationship of heaven and earth, and the horizontal line indicates the relationship of yin-yang. The direction of short lines to the left personifies movement, gentleness, love, compassion, and their aspiration to the right is associated with constancy, firmness, intelligence and strength. Thus, any one-sidedness is a violation of world harmony and cannot lead to universal happiness. Love and compassion without strength and firmness are helpless, and strength and reason without mercy and love lead to the multiplication of evil.

Swastika in European culture

The swastika became popular in European culture in the 19th century, in the wake of the fashion of Aryan theory. English astrologer Richard Morrison organized the Order of the Swastika in Europe in 1869. It is found on the pages of books by Rudyard Kipling. The swastika was also used by the founder of the Boy Scouts, Robert Baden-Powell. In 1915, the swastika, being very common in Latvian culture since ancient times, was depicted on the banners of the battalions (then regiments) of the Latvian Riflemen. Russian army.

Altars with swastika in Europe:

From Aquitaine

Then, since 1918, it became an element of the official symbols of the Republic of Latvia - the emblem of military aviation, regimental insignia, insignia of societies and various organizations, state awards, and is still used today. The Latvian military order of Lachplesis was in the form of a swastika. Since 1918, the swastika has been part of the state symbols of Finland (now it is depicted on the presidential standard, as well as on the banners of the armed forces). Later it became a symbol of the German Nazis, after they came to power - the state symbol of Germany (depicted on the coat of arms and flag); after World War II, her image was banned in a number of countries.

Swastika in Nazism
The National Socialist German Workers' Party (NSDAP), which appeared in the 1920s, chose the swastika as its party symbol. Since 1920, the swastika has become associated with Nazism and racism.

There is a very common misconception that the Nazis chose as their emblem right-sided swastika, thereby perverting the precepts of the ancient sages and desecrating the sign itself, which is more than five thousand years old. In reality, this is not so. In the cultures of different peoples, both left-handed and right-handed swastikas are found.

Under the definition of "Nazi" symbols, only a four-pointed swastika, standing on an edge of 45 °, with the ends pointing to the right, can fit. It was this sign that was on the state banner of National Socialist Germany from 1933 to 1945, as well as on the emblems of the civil and military services of this country. The Nazis themselves used the term Hakenkreuz (literally “crooked (hooked) cross”), which is synonymous with the word swastika (German: Swastika), which is also used in German.

In Russia, the stylized swastika is used as an emblem by the All-Russian social movement Russian National Unity (RNU). Russian nationalists claim that the Russian swastika - Kolovrat - is an ancient Slavic symbol and cannot be recognized as Nazi symbols.

Swastika in the cultures of other countries