What is the name of the fascist sign. What is a swastika? Where did the German swastika come from? Why is prohibited

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

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

By christening the archaic solar symbol with Hakenkreuz (Hakenkreuz translates from German as a hook cross), Hitler assumed the priority of a discoverer, although the idea of ​​the swastika as a political symbol took root in Germany before him. In 1920, Hitler, who was unprofessional and untalented, but still an artist, allegedly independently developed the design of the party's logo, proposing a red flag with a white circle in the middle, in the center of which a black swastika hung predatory hooks.

The color red, according to the leader of the National Socialists, was chosen to imitate the Marxists who used it. Seeing the 120,000-strong 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 Fuehrer mentioned the "great psychological significance" of symbols and their ability to powerfully influence emotions. But it was through the control of crowd emotions that Hitler succeeded in introducing 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. Attracting the attention of the workers with the familiar color of the posters, Hitler made a "recruitment".

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

In general, it is impossible to call Hitler the author of the 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 Krone, who submitted a memo in 1919 to the party leadership. However, in the bible of National Socialism, Mein Kampf, the name of the quick-witted dentist is not mentioned.

However, Kron put a different content in the decoding of symbols. The red color of the banner is love for the homeland, the white circle is a symbol of innocence for unleashing the First World War, the black color of the cross is sorrow over losing the war.

In Hitler's interpretation, 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 symbolism. The swastika was also banned. V recent times she is somewhat rehabilitated. Roskomnadzor, for example, acknowledged in April 2015 that displaying this sign outside a propaganda context is not an act of extremism. Although you cannot erase the "reprehensible past" from your biography, and the swastika is used by some racist organizations.

One Russian tourist, having visited Southeast Asia, reported in social networks about their impressions. In Bangkok, he saw a man with a large swastika on his T-shirt front and back.

Blood rushed to the tourist's head. He wanted to immediately explain to the stupid aborigine what kind of muck he was wearing. But, having cooled down a little, the Russian decided to refrain from communication: maybe, local just knows nothing about "German fascism"? Still, the shock from what he saw was so great that, returning home, he turned to the forum visitors with the question: "What to do in a similar situation?"

Swastika past and present

Indeed, most Asians do not know who Hitler is. Some may have heard of World War II. But to say for sure who fought with whom and because of what, even the most educated people... But in India, almost everyone knows very well that the swastika is a symbol of prosperity, the sun, a sign of auspicious intentions. No wedding in India, Nepal, South Korea is complete without this symbol.

The swastika appeared in antiquity and was widespread throughout Eurasia. She is an integral part of Buddhism, with which she came to China, Siam and Japan. This symbol is also used by other religions. In the late 19th - early 20th centuries, due to the fascination with the culture of the East, the swastika became very popular in Europe.

In the summer of 1917, the Provisional Government of Russia even placed a large swastika on a 250-ruble bill, against the backdrop of a two-headed eagle. Some groups of whites put the swastika on their shoulder straps. The Bolsheviks, too, did not escape the general fad and used the swastika as a revolutionary symbol.

The seal of the Moscow Provincial Council of Workers and Peasants' Deputies of 1919 in the form of a swastika looks especially impressive today. The red sleeve patch of the Red Army soldiers of the South-Eastern Front with a star and a swastika is also impressive. In the end, the People's Commissar Lunacharsky in a harsh manner stopped this "disgrace" in 1922.

Currently, Europeans perceive the swastika only as a symbol of Nazism (the National Socialist Party of Germany) with all its horrors. Today it is difficult to imagine that our distant and not so ancestors found something attractive in this symbol, so it seems to us ominous.

The denial of the swastika was firmly embedded in the minds of most European peoples. But humanity consists not only of Europeans, and this has to be reckoned with, especially on foreign trips. As they say, one does not go to another's monastery with its own charter.

Fascia among the fascists

The symbol of fascism, the fascia, unlike the swastika, is not a sign that irritates the post-Soviet space. And in Europe, they are very tolerant of him. One of the reasons, apparently, lies in the fact that the Nazis did not do as many misfortunes as the Nazis. At least, they were going to “only” conquer other peoples, but not at all to destroy them.

Fasciae on the facade of the Central Station, Milan.

Here it is necessary to note the different understanding of the term "fascism" in the former USSR and the rest of the world. On the initiative of I. Stalin, the Comintern (an international association of communist parties under the control of the Soviet leadership) proposed to call the National Socialists "German fascists." Fascists are members of the Italian radical party created by B. Mussolini.

The fact is that then certain difficulties were outlined in identifying the enemy. Hitler's party, the NSDAP, was listed as both socialist and workers, had a red flag and celebrated the proletarian holiday on May 1. Explaining to not very literate people how Hitler's socialism differs from Stalin's was simply an overwhelming task. And there were no problems with the term "German fascists". In Soviet Union.

But in Europe, he did not take root, despite all the efforts of the Comintern. People there simply did not understand what it was about, when instead of the usual word "Nazi" they heard the long and indigestible "German fascism". Therefore, the European Communist Parties, in order to be understood by their compatriots, were forced to use the generally accepted term - "Nazi".

Fascia - a symbol of power in ancient Rome

The very term "fascism" originated from the word "fascia". The fascia was a symbol of power in ancient Rome. It was a bunch of birch twigs, into which an ax was stuck. Fascia was worn by lictors - accompanying persons and at the same time guards of high-ranking officials.

Lictor with fascia

Later, in heraldry, fasces became a symbol of state and national unity, a symbol of state protection. This symbol is widely used today. The fascia is present in the symbols of the Russian federal services for the execution of sentences and bailiffs. It is also on the emblem of the Ukrainian Ministry of Emergency Situations. And in the coat of arms of France, the fascia is even a central element.

Mussolini used the fascia on the banner of the fascist party as a symbol of the unity of the state and the people, of all strata of society - from the rich and noble to the poorest. In general, something similar to the well-known slogan "The people and the party are one."

Of course, one cannot call all structures, and even more so states, fascist because of the presence of fasces on their banners and coats of arms. The fascia is more fortunate than the swastika. - it does not cause such rejection. Although on the territory of Moscow from 1997 to 2002 there was a law that provided for punishment for the propaganda of fascia.

the Red Star

Highly popular symbol is a red star. After the October Revolution, when the question arose about the symbolism of the Red Army, they settled on a five-pointed red star. The Red Star in May 1918 was officially declared, by order of Trotsky, the emblem of the Red Army. In this order, she was called "the star of Mars with a plow and a hammer."

The god of war Mars in the then Soviet tradition was considered the defender of peaceful labor. After a while, the plow was replaced with a sickle. The red star emblem was to be worn on the chest. But later, the star began to be worn on headdresses, instead of the cockade.

The five-pointed star (pentacle, pentagram) has been known for almost 6000 years. She was a symbol of safety and protection from all kinds of adversity. The pentagram was used by different religions and peoples. But during the time of the Inquisition, the attitude to the pentagram in Europe changed radically, and they began to call it the "leg of a witch". Later, it was clarified that the symbol of Satan is only an inverted star - when one ray is directed downward, and two rays looking upward form, as it were, horns.

And the star "standing on two legs" is quite pleasing to God. The "flaming" pentagram, with tongues of flame between the rays of the star, is one of the main symbols of the Freemasons. Already from the beginning of the 19th century, stars "climbed" on epaulettes and shoulder straps.

The stars on the American flag were eight-pointed at first. But under the influence of local masons, they were very quickly replaced by five-pointed ones. The US Armed Forces, like their Soviet counterparts, use the pentacle to denote the nationality of military equipment.

"George Ribbon"

Lately the red star, the only symbol Soviet army and her victories, a competitor appeared - the orange-black "St. George's Ribbon". For all its external attractiveness and even the resemblance to the St. George ribbon, it is inappropriate to call it that way. The real St. George ribbon has three black and two yellow stripes, which symbolizes the three deaths and two resurrections of St. George the Victorious.

From 1917 to 1992 St. George Ribbon was not used in any Soviet award. But she was involved in the White Army and the Russian Corps, which fought on Hitler's side. A man with such a tape, who fell into the hands of the NKVD or Smersh during the war, in best case would be sent to a concentration camp. The current "St. George's Ribbon" repeats the colors of the pads of the Order of Glory and the medal "For Victory over Germany" and has nothing to do with the life and death of St. George the Victorious.

In any case, the Russians liked the ribbon and is perceived today as a symbol of the Great Patriotic War. It is perceived in the same way in Belarus. But in Ukraine, the perception of this symbol is ambiguous.
People nostalgic for the USSR, although they claim that it is a symbol of the past war, still perceive the ribbon as a symbol of the Soviet past. Another part of the population has a sharply negative attitude to the ribbon, considering it an element of "imperial" propaganda, along with other Soviet symbols.

Anatoly PONOMARENKO

"Secrets of the 20th century"

Nowadays, the Swastika is a negative symbol and is associated only with murder and violence. Today the Swastika is strongly associated with fascism. However, this symbol appeared much earlier than fascism and has nothing to do with Hitler. Although it is worth admitting that the Swastika symbol discredited itself and many people have negative opinion about this symbol, except perhaps the Ukrainians, who revived Nazism on their land, which they are very happy about.

The history of the Swastika

According to some historians, this symbol appeared several thousand years ago, when there was no trace of Germany. Meaning of this symbol was to designate the rotation of the galaxy, if you look at some space images, you can see spiral galaxies, which are somewhat reminiscent of this sign.

Slavic tribes used the Swastika symbol to decorate their homes and places of worship, wore embroidery on clothes in the form of this ancient symbol, used it as amulets against evil forces, applied this sign to exquisite weapons.
For our ancestors, this symbol personified the heavenly body, represented all the brightest and kindest that is in our world.
Actually, this symbol was used not only by the Slavs, but also by many other people for whom it meant faith, goodness and peace.
How did it happen that this beautiful symbol of goodness and light suddenly became the personification of murder and hatred?

Thousands of years have passed since the Swastika sign was of great importance, gradually it began to be forgotten, and in the Middle Ages it was completely forgotten, only occasionally this symbol was embroidered on clothes. And only by a strange whim at the beginning of the twentieth century this sign saw the light again. that time in Germany was very restless and in order to gain faith in oneself and instill it in other people, various methods, including including occult knowledge. The Swastika sign first appeared on the helmets of German militants, and only a year later it was recognized as the official symbol of the fascist party. Much later, Hitler himself liked to perform under the banners with this sign.

Types of swastikas

Let's first dot the i's. The fact is that the Swastika can be depicted in two forms, with the tips bent counterclockwise, and clockwise.
Both of these symbols contain a completely different opposite meaning, thus balancing each other. The Swastika, the tips of the rays of which are directed counterclockwise, that is, to the left, mean good and light, denoting the rising sun.
The same symbol, but with the tips turned to the right, carries a completely opposite meaning and denotes unhappiness, evil, all kinds of misfortunes.
If you look at what kind of Swastika Nazi Germany had, you can make sure that its tips are bent to the right, which means this symbol has nothing to do with light and good.

From all of the above, we can conclude that not everything is as simple as it seemed to us. Therefore, do not confuse these two completely opposite in meaning of the Swastika. This sign can serve in our time as an excellent protective amulet, if only to portray it correctly. If people will be. scared to point a finger at this amulet, you can explain the meaning of the "Swastika" symbol and make a small excursion into the history of our ancestors, for whom this symbol was a sign of light and good.

Many legends and speculations have accumulated around this ancient symbol, so it may be interesting for someone to read about this ancient solar cult symbol.


In fact, I, who grew up in the USSR, had a prejudiced attitude towards the swastika as to a fascist sign. But is it really so? The swastika is one of the most archaic sacred symbols found among many peoples of the world. Swastika symbols were used to designate calendar signs in the days of the Scythian kingdom.

Many people nowadays Swastika associated with fascism and Hitler. This has been hammered into people's heads for the past 70 years. It's time to fix the situation.
In modern schools, and in lyceums and gymnasiums in Russia, modern children are voiced a rather delusional hypothesis that the Swastika is a German fascist cross, made up of four letters "G" denoting the first letters of the leaders of Nazi Germany: Hitler, Himmler, Goering and Goebbels (sometimes he is replaced by Hess). Well, variations on this theme, Germany Hitler Goebbels Himmler. At the same time, few of the children think about the fact that in German surnames: HITLER, HIMMLER, GERING, GEBELS (HESS), there is no Russian letter "G". I do not know what is passed off as the truth in Western schools, but I am more than sure that there, too, the swastika is primarily a fascist symbolism.Unfortunately, the true meaning of this runic symbol over the past 70 years has been erased by this stereotype. At the same time, from time immemorial, the swastika was an integral part of the Slavic ornament.

Moreover, not wanting to look into the depths of the centuries, you can find more intelligible examples. Not many people remember that on Soviet money in the period from 1917 to 1923 the Swastika was depicted as a legalized state symbolism; not immediately noticeable, but the fact itself. She is in the center.

As you can see already Soviet authority, 18 years old.

Rest assured, it was no less popular before the stars.

And it was not only on Russian money. Here are the Lithuanian five litas.

They also forgot that on the sleeve patches of soldiers and officers of the Red Army in the same period there was also a Swastika in laurel wreath, and inside the Swastika were the letters R.S.F.S.R. And how can I remember when almost 100 years have passed since then. That is, one should not remember, but know.

There is such a hypothesis that Comrade IV Stalin himself presented the Golden Swastika-Kolovrat as a party symbol to Adolf Hitler in 1920. But this can already be invented, I'm not sure.

Well, for balance, the American troops of the 30s. 45th Infantry Division.

And the famous Flight Division Lafayette.



And there were also Finnish, Polish and Latvian stripes with a swastika. If you are interested, you can independently find them all on the Internet.

A thoughtful and not stupid person will always distinguish the swastika painted on the veteran's grave from the swastika in ethnic ornament.

The antics of neo-fascists and just bastards who paint black crosses on the gravestones of the Old Jewish Cemetery in Riga cannot be attributed to ethnic rituals. And yet, for all my uncompromising attitude towards fascism and the results of the war and a rather prejudiced attitude towards the swastika, I decided to dig information on this topic. But since we have touched on the most famous interpretation of this symbol for today, we will also talk about fascism itself.
Term Fascism comes from the Latin "fashio" bundle, bunch. In Russian, the analogous word fascina is a bunch of branches, twigs. Fashina symbolizes something strong, reliable, created from the weak, fragile. Remember the parable of the fingers, which are weak by themselves, and being clenched into a fist represents strength. Or a historical example, when it is easy to break each arrow, but it is impossible to do this with a whole beam.

“The first fascists began to call themselves the Roman soldiers of Julius Caesar who conquered Egypt. an ax, lined with a bundle of rods and intertwined with ribbons, which was called fascina. The symbolism is that around a strong power (ax), through small restrictions (ribbon), peoples (rods) will grow stronger. " (c) But back to the swastika sign runic solar symbol.

We will return to the symbolism of the Third Reich closer to the end of the publication. For now, let's look at the swastika without shuddering or prejudice. Let's try to get rid of the contemptuous look at this ancient symbol of eternal rotation.

I decided to distance myself from the presentation of this topic by the New Russian preachers. It cannot be denied that the ancient Slavic traditions used the solar sign of the swastika, but their approach is very intrusive. In order not to slide in the opposite direction of delusions, let's take a look at the swastika a little wider.

Considering that not everyone can master long texts, I decided to show the collected examples to rehabilitate the sign itself. Let's just pay attention to all the variety of swastikas in cultures. different nations... This should be enough to understand the essence.

Let's start with the universe. Find the Big Dipper, and to the left of it you will see the constellation in the form of the Swastika. I do not know if this is true, but now it is excluded from the atlases of the starry sky. So they say in the articles. I didn’t check it myself, it’s not that important.


Doesn't it look like a spiral galaxy.?
And here are the runic symbols of the ancestors. There are also many examples of them, and options for interpretation.

And India, where the swastika is very common.

Even among the jungle, you can find a swastika.

What do you think is in the picture? This is a fragment of the garment of an Orthodox priest of the highest ecclesiastical dignity.

Do you still believe that the swastika was invented by the fascists of Nazi Germany?

Do you recognize anyone in this picture? The Russian emperor hurries to his car.

But you are not looking at the king, but at the hood of the car. Found it? The appearance of the swastika at the court of the last Russian tsar is associated with the name of his wife, Alexandra Feodorovna. Perhaps, the influence on the empress of the doctor Pyotr Badmaev was manifested here. Buryat by origin, a lamaist, Badmaev preached Tibetan medicine and maintained ties with Tibet. There are known images of a gamma cross on the Empress's hand-drawn postcards.

"The left-sided swastika had a special meaning in the royal family and was used as a talisman and as a symbolic display of the king's personality. Before the execution, the former empress drew a swastika on the wall of the Ipatiev house and wrote something. The image and inscription were photographed and then destroyed. The owner of this photo was the leader of the white movement in exile, General Alexander Kutepov. In addition, Kutepov kept the icon found on the body of the former empress. Inside the icon there was a note in which the Green Dragon society was commemorated. Strange telegrams signed “Green” were received from Sweden by Grigory Rasputin. "Green", akin to the Thule society, is located in Tibet. Before Hitler came to power in Berlin, lived a Tibetan lama, nicknamed “the man in green gloves.” Hitler regularly visited him. The lama three times without errors reported to the newspapers how many Nazis would be in the elections to the Reichstag. The initiates called the lama “the holder of the keys to the kingdom of Agharti.” In 1926, in Berlin and Munich, there are still small colonies of Tibetans and Hindus. When the Nazis gained access to the finances of the Reich, they began to send large expeditions to Tibet, this live communication was 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 death volunteers, people of Tibetan blood, were found. (C)

In July 1918, immediately after the execution of the royal family, the troops of the White Army occupied Yekaterinburg. First of all, the officers rushed to the Ipatiev House - final resting place august persons. There, among other things, they saw signs familiar from icons - crosses with curved ends. It was a left-handed, so-called collective swastika - "amulet". As it turned out later, it was drawn by Empress Alexandra Feodorovna.

It is for these signs that the ignorant London reviewers of the film about the Romanovs would later dub her "the fascist Brunhilde", ignorant of the ancient Christian Indian traditions - to leave the swastika where the attributes of a holiday are removed after its completion, so that evil does not penetrate here. The Empress consecrated the house with a "talisman", anticipating the end of the holiday of life ... (c)

And this photo shows Jackie Bouvier, the future Jackie Kennedy, in a festive costume related to culture American Indians.

The geography is expanding.
In India, the Swastika is a symbol of esoteric Buddhism. According to legend, it was imprinted on the heart of the Buddha for which it received the name "Seal of the Heart".

Let's look at the history of the spread of the swastika.
"" Together with one and the branches of the Indo-European tribes who moved from the southern regions of the Russian Plain in a southeast direction and reached through Mesopotamia and Central Asia to the Indus Valley, the swastika hit the culture eastern peoples.
It was spread on the painted dishes of ancient Susiana (Mesopotamian Elam on the eastern coast of the Persian Gulf - III millennium BC) - on bowls, where it was placed in the very center of the composition. This is perhaps a typical example when the swastika was used by the most ancient non-Indo-European people. The signs were symmetrically positioned relative to a rectangle crossed out by an oblique cross, denoting the earth.
Somewhat later, the Semitic peoples began to use the swastika: the ancient Egyptians and Chaldeans, whose state was located on west bank Persian Gulf.

If desired, you can even find a combination in the ornament of the swastika and the six-pointed star of Magendovid.

With the same wave of Indo-Europeans in the middle of the second millennium BC. the swastika penetrated the culture of North India. There she successfully existed until our time, but acquired a mystical meaning.

In the most general interpretation, the swastika is considered by the Indians as a symbol of movement and eternal rotation of the world - the "cycle of samsara". This symbol was allegedly imprinted on the heart of the Buddha and therefore is sometimes called the "Seal of the Heart". It is placed on the chest of initiates in the secrets of Buddhism after their death. It is carved into every rock, temple, and wherever the founders of Buddhism left their landmarks.

Later, the swastika penetrates into Tibet, then into Central Asia and China. A century later, the swastika comes to Japan and Southeast Asia along with Buddhism, which made it its symbol. "

Together with Buddhism from India, the swastika penetrated into Tibet and Japan. In Japan, the swastika symbol is called Manji. The image of the manji can be seen on the flags, armor and family crests of the samurai.

As well as North America and the east of Eurasia is marked with a solar sign and a Japanese man wearing a manji-decorated helmet.

Japanese engraving 18th century

Japanese roof

Here is the swastika-decorated facade of a building in Kathmandu.

And here is the Buddha himself.

At this point, it was already possible to put a point. For the general understanding that in itself there is nothing wrong with the swastika, these examples are already enough. But we'll see a few more. The East generally preserves its history more carefully and observes traditions. Pagoda tower with golden swastika, solar sign.

Another Buddha
Is this not an example of the fact that the solar Kolovrat is not just an ornament of an ornamental character, but a sacred symbol with a deep sacred meaning. That is why we can see it on the Buddhist mandala.

And on the sacred stupa

Modern Nepal

The swastika Kolovrat is depicted on the tusks of mammoths. Under the golden Kolovrat on a scarlet banner, the legendary prince Svyatoslav went to Constantinople, beat the Khazars. This radiant symbol was used by the pagan magi (priests) in rituals associated with the ancient Slavic Vedic Faith, and is still embroidered by Vyatka, Kostroma,
Vologda needlewomen.

V early Christianity the swastika was known as the gammed cross, until the end of the Middle Ages it was one of the emblems of Christ, it could often be found on Orthodox icons... As an example, a swastika on a headdress Mother of God icons called "Reigning". Remember the ornament on the Orthodox priest's festive dress above? From the same place.

According to legend, Genghis Khan wore a ring with a swastika on his right hand, into which was set a magnificent ruby ​​- 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.

The Swastika became popular again in European culture in the 19th century. She began to be used everywhere in ornamentation, as a sign of Light, Sun, Love, Life. There was even an interpretation that the Swastika symbol must be understood as an abbreviation of four words starting with latin letter"L": Light - Light, Sun; Love - Love; Life - Life; Luck - Fate, Luck, Happiness. This is its modern interpretation, without signs of a pagan cult.

And here is a very old "fossil" example of a swastika.

Currently, the swastika is depicted on the presidential standard of Finland.

And it can be found on the map of modern America ...

The debate about the origin of the swastika has not subsided for many years. Its fragments have been found on almost all continents in the cultures of Hinduism, Lamaism, Christianity. Today it is believed that this sign originates from ancient religion Aryans - Indo-Europeans. His first images on Aryan altars and burials with Harappan seals and weapons, Samaria bowls date back to the 30th century BC. Excavated in the Urals, the same age as the pyramids of Egypt, has a street layout in the form of a round swastika mandala with an altar in the center.

What did the swastika mean? This is the Aryan symbol of the union of the heavenly forces of fire and wind with the altar - the place where these heavenly forces merge with the earthly ones. Therefore, the altars of the Aryans were decorated with a swastika and were revered as saints protected from evil. The name "swastika" comes from the Sanskrit term "suasti" - "prosperity under the Sun", and the swastika mandala - from the concept of "wheel", "disk", or "circle of eternity", divided into sectors. In China and Japan, the swastika hieroglyphs mean wishes for longevity under the Sun.

In the middle of the 20th century, the swastika became one of the main tools in the confrontation between civilizations. And this was reflected not only in mass use symbol as a "marker" of certain forces, but also in an active esoteric-mystical technology of application. This aspect was dealt with by the special communities of the 3rd Reich, primarily the Ahnenerbe. The swastika was used as a universal tool for contact and remote mental coding of individuals and groups, volitional projection onto a geographic region, the formation of events (of a future given type), etc. Not all manipulations with the swastika gave the expected effect, however, the degree of effectiveness and the nature of its use are not generally known information. This side of World War II still keeps its secrets.
In general, there are a great many swastikas.

But how did the swastika become the personification of fascism?

The party symbols and the NSDAP (National Socialist German Workers' Party) flag, created in 1921 based on sketches by Adolf Hitler, later became the state symbols of Germany (1933-1945). It is possible that Hitler, when choosing the swastika as an emblem, was guided by the theory of the German geopolitician Karl Haushofer, who believed that the swastika was a symbol of thunder, fire and fertility among the ancient Aryan magicians.

It was Haushofer who owns the expression: "Space as a factor of power", which Hitler borrowed from him. In the view of Hitler himself, the swastika symbolized "the struggle for the triumph Aryan race". By this time, the Swastika was already actively used by Austrian anti-Semitic organizations.

Then it was accepted nazi greeting Ziga. "Ziga" ("sieg" - victory) is a gesture of greeting the Sun: from the heart to the Sun by the road of the right hand, while the palm of the left hand lies with the inner side on the stomach, forming a zig-rune. After 1933, the swastika finally began to be perceived as a Nazi symbol, as a result of which it was excluded from the emblem of the scout movement. Kipling removed the swastika from the covers of his books.

"V modern world As before, a special toolkit - graphic symbols - is widely used to purposefully influence the feelings, thoughts and desires of people. The history of the use of symbols is as deep as the history of Homo sapiens. And in this story, a special place is occupied by the idea of ​​finding a certain universal key, magic sign, having mastered which it becomes possible to control not only a person, but also entire nations. How realistic is this idea?
The answer is related to the answer to another question: what does the world in which we live consist of? For thousands of years it was asked by outstanding thinkers, it remains relevant in the modern world. In the era of antiquity, the idea of ​​hiding behind a variety of objects and phenomena of only a few fundamental principles was popular - the elements: fire, water, earth, air, and the quintessence of these elements - ether. According to ancient teachings, all known objects and phenomena are formed from these substances, and the system-forming process is the interaction of the world of ideas and the world of elements. The world of ideas in this case looks like a “grandiose software"For the Universe. Such an interpretation of the structure of the world allows the materialization of ideas into some monads by means of a special substance - the substance of pure information - capable of modifying any object in the material world. Maybe this is how the meaning of the mysterious “ philosopher's stone».
In this case, we define information as one of the primary principles, a kind of element. What are the elements of the world of ideas reflected in the form of substance? How will the human consciousness perceive them? Apparently in the form of symbols and signs. Probably, the inner mental space of a person can be represented in the form of living symbols combined into texts. Having at its core one nature - a single world of ideas in the Universe, people, regardless of race, era, language culture, environment, have the same primary symbolic structures in their mental structure. This point of view makes it possible to understand why, throughout the history of human civilization known to us, there are similar and even completely identical symbols used in almost all regions of the planet by various peoples. "(C)

And if interested, the swastika museum

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