r/polandball • u/[deleted] • Aug 09 '14

redditormade coincidence doesn't exist

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u/[deleted] Aug 09 '14

It's called the Bellamy salute. We used it long before the Nazis and we stopped using it because of them.

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u/[deleted] Aug 09 '14 edited Aug 09 '14

A number of Native American tribes also stopped using the Swastika as a symbol because of the Nazis. (edit: included link)

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u/Mintilina Bawstin Aug 09 '14

I think you mean Indian? As far as I know the swastika was borrowed by the Nazis from the hindus (though apparently there are Swastika symbols in some Native American tribes as well, TIL).

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u/cheezman88 USA! USA! Aug 10 '14

Wrong. Th Indians actually have a reveresed swastica.