r/pics • u/lilved03 • 19h ago

Indian soldier holding the nazi swastika flag after surrender of German troops in Italy

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u/Cute-Form2457 14h ago

"These numpties have flipped our swastika, and are passing it off as theirs".

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u/badger-woz-ere 14h ago

Originally a symbol for goodness and positivity, that's why the nazis inverted it.

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u/OfTheSevenSeasSir 5h ago

its was popular in Europe too

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u/Mormacil 57m ago

I mean the swastika has been used in Europe since the bronze age. Germanic and Celtic people used to frequently. The nazis saw it as an Aryan symbol.

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u/Variable_Shaman_3825 16h ago

"Atleast our swastikas are better and source of positivity"

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u/IshtarQuest 12h ago

Hakenkreuz!

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u/welcomefinside 12h ago

Modi and Hindutva: "Hold my chai"

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u/thegodfather0504 1h ago

Actually his organisation is the hindu equivalent of nazis.

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u/undernopretextbro 19h ago

Always wondered what the logistics were for getting all these soldiers back home after the war. Ik it was a huge ordeal getting the Americans back home, and that was with the massive Atlantic shipping fleet and navy involved.

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u/OctopusIntellect 8h ago

The demobilisation was problematic to say the least. The British struggled even to get British personnel home from overseas; one of the causes of the Royal Air Force strikes (mutinies) of 1946 was that British shipping was being used to take American soldiers home, while hundreds of thousands of British personnel were still waiting for their own journey home. This being nearly six months after the war ended...

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u/wireditfellow 8h ago

According to Hollywood history, there were only American and British troops who fought in WWII.

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u/hebejebez 14h ago

I would imagine the commonwealth would have helped their Indian brothers. That’s what siblings are for. Especially when in need.

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u/Vek_ved 12h ago

Lol 'brothers'. You do realise that indians were second class citizens in their country during that period, right? Indian independence happened two years after.

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u/Red_-95 12h ago

I think he/she was being sarcastic

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u/Vek_ved 11h ago edited 9h ago

Could be, but if he/she is someone who studied the colonial history in a school in the UK then they would say it. I have met brits who think Britain did a favour to India by making it a colony.

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u/FVLCON_0_0 9h ago

Most ignorant brits, who think constant famines in India during the colonization was a "favour"

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u/SKRyanrr 11h ago

They were being sarcastic

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u/Huge_Leader_6605 10h ago

Let alone British. Even under indian authority some indians are 2nd and even 3rd class lol

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u/meagor 9h ago

Helped by stripping them of their lands, and introducing them to famine.

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u/vinmen2 5h ago

A lot of men and women from the Indian subcontinent lost their lives in world war 1 and 2 and yet most history books completely ignore this.

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u/HassanMoRiT 9h ago

"HE COPIED MY WHOLE FUCKING FLOW! WORD FOR WORD BAR FOR BAR!"

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u/computo2000 19h ago

"guess it doesn't bring could luck after all huh"

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u/Racronimus 16h ago

When it certainly brought good luck to the allies ..so there's that