Sun corporation:

Columbia cloth:

Even Windows:

Iranian necklace dated to as early as 1000 BC

Swastika hangs on all pagodas. For example, in Japan:

The use of swastikas for decoration of pottery and other wares was most frequent in Russia.  Go to a local history museum and get an insight into embroidery.

«Light flux» on the Russian ornament in XIX century. This fragment depicts two types of square swastikas.

In 1917 swastika was on old Russian money.

Then came Hitler, who took the swastika as a logo for Nazis. A page from the Nazi brand book:

On this photo is occupied Kharkiv.

All people all over the world promised to kill Hitler, so eventually he was killed. Then swastika was proclaimed as the biggest evil in the world. While all Nazi symbols were borrowed from another countries and cultures. Eagles were from Rome, runes – Iceland, swastika – India. It means that all these images are dated back more than thousand years ago.

Today the swastika can be found in any East Asian country, from Mongolia to Korea. Mongolians keep their native swastika even during the times of Soviet Communism.

US Navy Seabees Baracks. The Navy expects you to believe they had no idea their building was built in the shape of a Swastika, in 1960, only 15 years after America had cast the Swastika as the symbol of everything evil in this world and the next.

On this photo are portrayed walls of the Embassy of South Korea in Moscow.

Something more about swastika

The earliest consistent use of swastika motifs in the archaeological record date to the early years BC. But this symbol never loses his mysterious spiritual magnetism.
In fact there is no sphere of human life, where Swastika did not penetrate. But from many Swastika types we decided to choose only one – a classic rectangular swastika because it is very popular in our world. Since some types are so clear, so we divided them into separate fragments.

Russia/ Swastika on the robes of the Orthodox clergy.

Russia/ Vedenye city. The cross on the church.

Russia/ The sign on the cloth of  the Red Army Forces in 1919.

Israel /Swastika on the mosaic floor of the ancient synagogue.

?any synagogues decorated with different swastika types.

Maoz-Haim, Israel / The mosaic floor of the ancient synagogue in  IV-XI century BC decorated with swastika.

China. Harbin/ Buddhist temple. 15 meter high statue of Buddha.

China/ Swastika even on symbols

Hong Kong. A huge bronze statue of Buddha with a swastika on his chest.

Nepal/ Here in the form of the Swastika flower beds.

India

Swastika crowns mandir

India/ Ganesha Temple. (The swastika is situated in the top part of the Temple).

India /On bazaar.

Taiwan/ Buddhist center.

Singapore/ A statuette of Buddha.

Singapore/The swastika in circles on the gate of the court.

Throughout Indochina supermarkets swastika can be found  as a symbol signifying a vegetarian meal.

In ancient Greece, on Crete and in Troy, swastika was widely used as a decorative element in the temples, on clothing and shields of warriors, household utensils.

Vase with geometric pattern. 8 centuryBC

Sweaters of players are adorned with swastika in a circle.

Canada/ Women’s Hockey Team in Edmonton. 1916

Swastika as a sign of gratitude was used in  American scouts community.

“The Swastika 9″ Girls Softball Team, Hanford or White Bluffs, Washington, 1925

The Altar of Peace in Rome

United States, United Kingdom.

Swastika can often be found on the tissues. Jacqueline Kennedy – wife of President John F. Kennedy,  had in her wardrobe the clothing with swastikas.

In 1933  Rudyard Kipling  used Swastika as a personal emblem. It embodies strength, beauty, originality and inspiration for him. With the participation of Paul Klee swastika became the emblem of the avant-garde artistic and Bauhaus architectural associations.

Settlement of the miners, five miles from Kirkland Lake (Ontario, USA) is called Swastika.

Swastika, Ontario, Canada. Incorporated in 1908

The swastika was often printed by E. Phillips and other manufacturers of postcards in the U.S. and Britain in 1900-1910’s.
They called it only as “a cross of happiness”, consisting of “four L”: Love, Light, Life and Luck. Before the confrontation with Nazi Germany, American housewives often embroidered swastika ornaments.

Prohibiting the ideology of National Socialism, the court at Nuremberg was not slow to associate everything with swastika.
If the idiotic ban on Nazi symbols would be canceled (how many years have passed), all symbols of neo-Nazis would have been fully washed away with billions of logos on the basis of the swastika.

Prohibit on swastika is like to prohibit the circle, square or triangle. Swastika is good with its symmetrical and rhythmic repetition, which underlies the half of the visual compositions.

I’m for the canceling of all restrictions on the use of the swastika. If the reader wants to conclude that I support Nazis, than he is wrong. I’m for the freedom of graphics expression.

The Cuban photographer Alberto Corda took some photos of an argentine doctor and Cuban revolutionary Ernesto Che Guevara in March of 1960.

This photo was assumed as a basis of the romantic revolutionist’s iconic image.

The nose image on the left and the palms one on the right didn’t go down in history.

Che Guevara couldn’t keep still on Cuba and was eager to do something, for instance revolution. He couldn’t also do anything in Congo, as this country was inhabited by sluggish people (How fascinating are Che’s Congolese diaries!) After all, Che Guevara moved to Bolivia and also failed to stir up Vallengrad peasantry to revolt. The Bolivian army soldiers (and of course, where to go without CIA) shot Che Guevara on 9th of October 1967. They didn’t shoot him in the face, so that it could be seen that the killed person was Che Guevara.

Everyone wanted to be photographed with a well-known dead body.

Che Guevara’s hands were cut off and sent to Cuba, so that the Argentine police could compare them with the file samples. The body was buried next to the landing strip in a common grave.

The Bolivians first cut off the hands, and after that decided to do the same thing with Che’s fingers.

Only in 1997 the Cuban delegation reported that the body was found. They transported the remains to Cuba, and then buried them in a Santa-Clara town mausoleum.

In the same year old man who took part in burying Che Guevara in Bolivia decided to put some documents, photos and the lock of Che’s hair up for auction. This lot was sold for 119 000 dollars. Willoldo insists that only he knows where Che Guevara is buried, and there are another person’s remains on Cuba.

Three days ago, on 19th of January, the stamp with the name “50 years of Cuban Revolution victory” (joint Russia and Cuba edition) was issued. And the star, unlike on the old Cuban stamp, was displayed, of course. It’s worthy to mention that the US can’t venture on such a stamp issue.

But now USA uses this type of Che image!

The Army has a Special Forces Corps unified command and its formed of 3 Special Forces Brigades, a High Command GAFE group, a GAFE group assigned to the Airborne Brigade and several Amphibious Special Forces Groups.

The Special Forces Brigades are formed by 9 SF battalions. The First brigade has the 1°, 2° y 3° SF battalions, The Second brigade has the 5°,6°,7° y 8°, and the Third brigade has the 4° y 9° and a Rapid Intervention Force group.
The High Command GAFE is a group with no more than 100 members, they are specially trained in counter-terrorist tactics. They receive orders directly from the Secretary of National Defense.
The Navy has a special operations force called Fuerzas Especiales, better known as FES. Their specialty are unconventional warfare, assault, counter-terrorism, and special reconnaissance operations.
There is also another special forces unit called Batallones de Comandos Anfibios. These units carry out special tasks for the Amphibious Reaction Forces (Marines).

© Charles Dharapak/AP