What does the fascist swastika mean? What is a swastika? Where did the German swastika come from? Why is it prohibited? Labyrinths and their images

Thanks to the anti-Russian media and information, no one knows who works for them, many people now associate the Swastika with fascism and Adolf Hitler. This idea has been hammered into people's heads for the last 70 years. Few people now remember that the Swastika was depicted on Soviet money in the period from 1917 to 1923 as a legalized state symbol; that on the sleeve patches of soldiers and officers of the Red Army during the same period there was also a Swastika in a laurel wreath, and inside the Swastika there were the letters R.S.F.S.R. There is even an opinion that Comrade I.V. Stalin himself gave the Golden Swastika-Kolovrat as a party symbol to Adolf Hitler in 1920. So many legends and conjectures have accumulated around this ancient symbol that it is perhaps worth telling in more detail about this oldest solar cult symbol on Earth.

The swastika symbol is a rotating cross with curved ends directed clockwise or counterclockwise. As a rule, now all over the world all Swastika symbols are called in one word - SWASTIKA, which is fundamentally wrong, because Each Swastika symbol in ancient times had its own name, purpose, Protective Power and Figurative meaning.

Swastika symbolism, being the oldest, is most often found in archaeological excavations. More often than other symbols, it was found in ancient mounds, on the ruins of ancient cities and settlements. In addition, swastika symbols were depicted on various details of architecture, weapons, clothing and household utensils among many peoples of the world. Swastika symbolism is found everywhere in ornamentation as a sign of Light, Sun, Love, Life. In the West, there was even an interpretation that the Swastika symbol must be understood as an abbreviation of four words starting with a Latin letter "L":
Light - Light, Sun; Love - Love; Life - Life; Luck - Fate, Luck, Happiness(see postcard below).

English greeting card from the early 20th century

The oldest archaeological artifacts depicting swastika symbols now date back to approximately 4-15 millennium BC. (on the right is a vessel from the Scythian Kingdom of 3-4 thousand BC). According to archaeological excavations, the richest areas for the use of the swastika as a religious and cultural symbol are Russia and Siberia. Neither Europe, nor India, nor Asia can compare with Russia or Siberia in the abundance of swastika symbols covering Russian weapons, banners, national costumes, household utensils, objects everyday life and agricultural purposes, as well as houses and temples. Excavations of ancient mounds, cities and settlements speak for themselves - many ancient Slavic cities had a clear form of Swastika, oriented to the four cardinal directions. This can be seen in the example of Arkaim, Vendogard and others (below is a reconstruction plan of Arkaim).

Reconstruction plan of Arkaim by L. L. Gurevich

The swastika and swastika-solar symbols were the main and, one might even say, almost the only elements of the most ancient Proto-Slavic ornaments. But this does not mean at all that the Slavs and Aryans were bad artists.
Firstly, there were a great many varieties of images of Swastika symbols. Secondly, in ancient times, not a single pattern was applied to any object just like that, because each element of the pattern corresponded to a certain cult or protective (amulet) meaning, because each symbol in the pattern had its own mystical power. By combining various mystical forces, white people created a favorable atmosphere around themselves and their loved ones, in which it was easiest to live and create. These were carved patterns, stucco molding, painting, beautiful carpets woven by hardworking hands (see photo below).

Traditional Celtic carpet with swastika pattern

But not only the Aryans and Slavs believed in the mystical power of swastika patterns. The same symbols were discovered on clay vessels from Samarra (the territory of modern Iraq), which date back to the 5th millennium BC. Swastika symbols in levorotatory and dextrorotatory forms are found in the pre-Aryan culture of Mohenjo-Daro (Indus River basin) and ancient China around 2000 BC. e. In Northeast Africa, archaeologists have found a funerary stele from the kingdom of Meroz, which existed in the 2nd -3rd centuries AD. The fresco on the stele depicts a woman entering the afterlife; a Swastika is emblazoned on the clothes of the deceased.

The rotating cross adorns golden weights for scales that belonged to the inhabitants of Ashanta (Ghana), and clay utensils of the ancient Indians, beautiful carpets woven by the Persians and Celts. Man-made belts created by the Komi, Russians, Sami, Latvians, Lithuanians and other peoples are also filled with swastika symbols, and at present it is difficult even for an ethnographer to figure out which people these ornaments belong to. Judge for yourself.

Since ancient times, swastika symbolism has been the main and dominant symbol among almost all peoples on the territory of Eurasia: Slavs, Germans, Mari, Pomors, Skalvi, Curonians, Scythians, Sarmatians, Mordovians, Udmurts, Bashkirs, Chuvash, Indians, Icelanders, Scots and many others.

In many ancient Beliefs and religions, the Swastika is the most important and brightest cult symbol. Thus, in ancient Indian philosophy and Buddhism (pic. on the right. Buddha’s Foot) the Swastika is a symbol of the eternal circulation of the universe, a symbol of the Buddha’s Law, to which all things are subject. (Dictionary “Buddhism”, M., “Republic”, 1992); in Tibetan Lamaism - a protective symbol, a symbol of happiness and a talisman.
In India and Tibet, the Swastika is depicted everywhere: on the walls and gates of temples (see photo below), on residential buildings, as well as on the fabrics in which all sacred texts and tablets are wrapped. Very often, sacred texts from the Book of the Dead, which are written on funeral covers, are framed with swastika ornaments before cremation.

At the gate of the Vedic Temple. Northern India. 2000

"Warships in the roadstead (in the inland sea)." XVIII century

An image of many Swastikas, you can see like on an antique Japanese print XVIII century (photo above), and on the unmatched mosaic floors in the halls of the St. Petersburg Hermitage (photo below).

Pavilion Hall of the Hermitage. Mosaic floor. Photo 2001

But you will not find any messages about this in the media, because they have no idea what the Swastika is, what ancient figurative meaning it carries, what it has meant for many millennia and means now for the Slavs and Aryans and many peoples inhabiting our Earth. In these media, alien to the Slavs, the Swastika is called either a German cross or fascist sign and reduce its image and significance only to Adolf Hitler, Germany 1933-45, fascism (National Socialism) and World War II. Modern “journalists”, “is-Toriki” and guardians of “universal human values” seem to have forgotten that the Swastika is the oldest Russian symbol, that in past times, representatives of the highest authorities, in order to enlist the support of the people, always made the Swastika state symbols and placed her image on the money. This is what the princes and tsars did, the Provisional Government (see p. 166) and the Bolsheviks, who later seized power from them (see below).

Now few people know that the matrices of the 250 ruble banknote, with the image of the Swastika symbol - Kolovrat against the background of a double-headed eagle, were made according to a special order and sketches of the last Russian Tsar Nicholas II. The Provisional Government used these matrices to issue banknotes in denominations of 250, and later 1000 rubles. Beginning in 1918, the Bolsheviks introduced new banknotes in denominations of 5,000 and 10,000 rubles, on which three Swastika-Kolovrat are depicted: two smaller Kolovrat in the side ligatures are intertwined with large numbers 5,000, 10,000, and a large Kolovrat is placed in the middle. But, unlike the 1000 rubles of the Provisional Government, which had the State Duma depicted on the reverse side, the Bolsheviks placed a double-headed eagle on banknotes. Money with the Swastika-Kolovrat was printed by the Bolsheviks and was in use until 1923, and only after the appearance of USSR banknotes were they taken out of circulation.

Authorities Soviet Russia In order to gain support in Siberia, in 1918 they created sleeve patches for the soldiers of the Red Army of the South-Eastern Front, they depicted the Swastika with the abbreviation R.S.F.S.R. inside (see below). But the Russian Government of A.V. Kolchak did the same, calling under the banner of the Siberian Volunteer Corps (see above left); Russian emigrants in Harbin and Paris, and then the National Socialists in Germany.

Created in 1921 according to the sketches of Adolf Hitler, the party symbols and flag of the NSDAP (National Socialist German Workers' Party) subsequently became the state symbols of Germany (1933-1945). Few people now know that in Germany the National Socialists used not Swastika , and a symbol similar in outline to it is Hakenkreuz (bottom left), which has a completely different figurative meaning - a change in the surrounding world and a person’s worldview.

For many millennia, different designs of swastika symbols have had a powerful influence on people’s lifestyles, their psyche (Soul) and subconscious, uniting representatives of different tribes for some bright purpose; gave a powerful surge of light divine forces, revealing the internal reserves in people for comprehensive creation for the benefit of their Clans, in the name of justice, prosperity and well-being of their Fatherland.

At first, only the clergy of various Tribal cults, creeds and religions used this, then representatives of the highest state authorities began to use swastika symbols - princes, kings, etc., and after them all kinds of occultists and political figures turned to the Swastika.

After the Bolsheviks completely captured all levels of power, the need for support of the Soviet regime by the Russian people disappeared, because it would be easier to confiscate the values ​​​​created by the same Russian people. Therefore, in 1923, the Bolsheviks abandoned the Swastika, leaving only the five-pointed star, Hammer and Sickle as state symbols.

In ancient times, when our Ancestors used x"Aryan Runes, the word Swastika , translated as Who Came from Heaven. Since Rune - NVA meant Heaven (hence Svarog - Heavenly God) - WITH - Rune of direction; Runes - TIKA - movement, coming, flow, running. Our children and grandchildren still pronounce the word tick, i.e. run. In addition, the figurative form is TIKA and is now found in everyday words Arctic, Antarctic, mysticism, homiletics, politics, etc.

Ancient Vedic sources tell us that even our galaxy has the shape of a Swastika, and our Yarila-Sun system is located in one of the arms of this Heavenly Swastika. And since we are located in the galactic sleeve, our entire galaxy (its ancient name is Svasti) is perceived by us as Perun’s Way or the Milky Way.
Any person who loves to look at the scattering of stars at night can see the constellation Mokosh (Ursa Major) to the left Swastikas (see below). It shines in the skies, but has been excluded from modern star maps and atlases.

As a cult and everyday solar symbol, bringing happiness, luck, prosperity, joy and prosperity, the Swastika was initially used only among the white people of the Great Race, professing the Old Faith of the Ancestors - Ingliism , the druidic cults of Ireland, Scotland, Scandinavia, and many millennia later, other peoples of the Earth began to venerate her Sacred Image: followers of Hinduism, Bon, Jainism, Buddhism, Islam, Christianity of various directions, representatives of natural-religious confessions of Europe and America. The only ones who do not recognize the symbolism as sacred are representatives of Judaism. Some people may object: they say that in the oldest synagogue in Israel there is a Swastika on the floor and no one destroys it. Indeed, the swastika symbol is present on the floor in the Israeli synagogue, but only so that everyone who comes tramples it underfoot.

The Legacy of the Ancestors brought the news that for many millennia the Slavs used Swastika symbols. They were numbered 144 types: Swastika, Kolovrat, Posolon, Holy Gift, Svasti, Svaor, Solntsevrat, Agni, Fash, Mara; Inglia, Solar Cross, Solard, Vedara, Light, Fern Flower, Perunov Color, Swati, Race, Bogovnik, Svarozhich, Svyatoch, Yarovrat, Odolen-Grass, Rodimich, Charovrat, etc.

Swastika symbols carry a huge secret meaning. They contain enormous Wisdom. Each Swastika symbol reveals to us a Great picture of the universe. The Heritage of the Ancestors says that the knowledge of Ancient Wisdom does not accept a stereotypical approach. The study of ancient symbols, Runic writings and ancient Traditions must be approached with an open heart and a pure Soul.
Not for profit, but for knowledge!
Swastika symbols in Russia were used for political purposes by all and sundry: monarchists, Bolsheviks, Mensheviks, but much earlier representatives of the Black Hundred began to use their Swastikas, then the baton was picked up by the Russian Fascist Party in Harbin.

At the end of the 20th century, the Russian National Unity organization began to use Swastika symbols (see left). A knowledgeable person will never say that the Swastika is a German or fascist symbol. Only foolish and ignorant people say this, because they reject what they are not able to understand and know, and also try to pass off what they want as reality.

But if ignorant people reject some symbol or some information, this still does not mean that this symbol or information does not exist.

Denial or distortion of the truth to please some disrupts the harmonious development of others. Even the ancient symbol of the Greatness of the Fertility of the Mother of the Raw Earth, called in ancient times SOLARD , some incompetent people classify as fascist symbols. A symbol that appeared many thousands of years before the rise of National Socialism. At the same time, it does not even take into account the fact that RNE’s SOLARD is combined with the Star of Lada the Mother of God (see left), where the Divine Forces (Golden Field), the Forces of the Primary Fire (red), the Heavenly Forces (blue) and the Forces of Nature are united together (green). The only difference between the original Mother Nature Symbol and the sign that RNE uses is the multi-colored nature of the Original Mother Nature Symbol (left) and the two-colored one of the Russian National Unity.

U ordinary people Swastika symbols had their own names. In the villages of the Ryazan province they called her “feather grass” - the embodiment of the Wind; on Pechora as a “hare” - here the graphic symbol was perceived as a piece of Sunlight, a ray, Sunny bunny; in some places the Solar Cross was called “horse”, “horse shank” (horse head), because a long time ago the horse was considered a symbol of the Sun and Wind; were called Swastika-Solyarniks and “Ognivtsy”, again in honor of Yarila the Sun. The people very correctly felt both the Fiery, Flaming Nature of the symbol (Sun) and its Spiritual essence (Wind).

The oldest master of Khokhloma painting, Stepan Pavlovich Veseloe (1903-1993) from the village of Mogushino Nizhny Novgorod region, observing traditions, he painted the Swastika on wooden plates and bowls, calling it “red rose”, the Sun, and explained: “It is the wind that shakes and moves the blade of grass.”

In the village, to this day, on holidays, girls and women wear smart sundresses, ponevas and shirts, and men wear blouses embroidered with swastika symbols of various shapes. They bake lush loaves and sweet cookies, decorated on top with Kolovrat, Salting, Solstice and other Swastika patterns.

As mentioned earlier, before the onset of the second half of the 20th century, the main and almost the only patterns and symbols that existed in Slavic embroidery were Swastika ornaments.

But in the second half of the 20th century, in America, Europe and the USSR they began to decisively eradicate this Solar symbol, and they eradicated it in the same way as they had previously eradicated: the ancient folk Slavic and Aryan Culture; ancient Faith and folk traditions; the true Heritage of the Ancestors, undistorted by the rulers, and the long-suffering Slavic people themselves, the bearer of the ancient Slavic-Aryan Culture.

And even now, many of the same people or their descendants are trying to ban any types of rotating Solar crosses, but using different pretexts: if earlier this was done under the pretext of class struggle and anti-Soviet conspiracies, now it is a fight against extremist activity.
For those who are not indifferent to the ancient Native Great Russian Culture, here are several typical patterns of Slavic embroidery of the 18th-20th centuries. On all enlarged fragments you can see Swastika symbols and ornaments for yourself.
The use of swastika symbols in ornaments in the Slavic lands is simply innumerable. They are used in the Baltic states, Belarus, the Volga region, Pomorie, Perm, Siberia, the Caucasus, the Urals, Altai and the Far East and other regions.

Academician B. A. Rybakov called the Solar symbol - Kolovrat, a connecting “link between the Paleolithic, where it first appeared, and modern ethnography, which provides countless examples of swastika patterns in fabrics, embroidery and weaving.”

But after the Second World War, in which Russia, as well as all Slavic and Aryan peoples, suffered huge losses, the enemies of the Aryan and Slavic Culture began to equate fascism with the Swastika.

The Slavs used this Solar sign throughout their existence.
The flow of lies and fabrications regarding the Swastika has filled the cup of absurdity. “Russian teachers” in modern schools, lyceums and gymnasiums in Russia teach children complete nonsense that The swastika is a Nazi cross made up of four letters "G" , denoting the first letters of the leaders of Nazi Germany: Hitler, Himmler, Goering and Goebbels (sometimes replaced by Hess). Listening to such “would-be teachers,” one might think that Germany during the time of Adolf Hitler exclusively used Russian alphabet , and not at all the Latin script and the German Runic.
Is it in German surnames: HITLER, HIMMLER, GERING, GEBELS (HESS) , there is at least one Russian letter"G" - No! But the flow of lies does not stop.
Swastika patterns and elements have been used by the peoples of the Earth for the last 10-15 thousand years, which is confirmed even by archaeological scientists.
Ancient thinkers said more than once: “Two troubles hinder human development: ignorance and ignorance.” Our Ancestors were knowledgeable and in charge, and therefore used various Swastika elements and ornaments in everyday life, considering them symbols of Yarila the Sun, Life, Happiness and Prosperity.

In general, only one symbol was called Swastika. This is an equilateral cross with curved short rays. Each beam has a 2:1 ratio (see left).
Only narrow-minded and ignorant people can denigrate everything pure, bright and dear that remains among the Slavic and Aryan peoples. Let's not be like them! Do not paint over Swastika symbols in ancient Slavic Temples and Christian churches, on the Kumirs of the Light Gods and the Images of the Many-Wise Ancestors. Do not destroy, at the whim of the ignorant and Slav-haters, the so-called “Soviet staircase”, the mosaic floor and ceilings of the Hermitage or the domes of the Moscow St. Basil’s Cathedral just because various versions of the Swastika have been painted on them for hundreds of years.

Everyone knows that the Slavic prince Prophetic Oleg nailed his shield to the gates of Constantinople (Constantinople), but few people now know what was depicted on the shield. Nevertheless, a description of the symbolism of his shield and armor can be found in historical chronicles (Shield drawing Prophetic Oleg on right).Prophetic people, i.e. possessing the gift of Spiritual Foresight and knowing Ancient Wisdom, which the Gods and Ancestors left to people, were endowed by the Priests with various symbols. One of these most notable people was the Slavic prince - Prophetic Oleg.
In addition to being a prince and an excellent military strategist, he was also a high-level priest. The symbolism that was depicted on his clothes, weapons, armor and princely banner tells about this in all detailed images.

The Fiery Swastika (symbolizing the land of the Ancestors) in the center of the nine-pointed Star of England (symbol of the Faith of the First Ancestors) was surrounded by the Great Kolo (Circle of Patron Gods), which emitted eight rays of Spiritual Light (the eighth degree of Priestly initiation) to the Svarog Circle. All this symbolism spoke of enormous spiritual and physical strength, which is directed to the defense of the Motherland and the Holy Old Faith.

They believed in the Swastika as a talisman that “attracts” good luck and happiness. In Ancient Rus' it was believed that if you draw Kolovrat on your palm, you will definitely be lucky. Even modern students draw Swastikas on their palms before exams. Swastikas were also painted on the walls of the house so that happiness would reign there; this exists in Russia, Siberia, and India.

For those readers who wish to receive more information about the Swastika, we recommend Ethno-religious essays by Roman Vladimirovich Bagdasarov

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Swastika symbolism, being the oldest, is most often found in archaeological excavations. More often than other symbols, it was found in ancient mounds, on the ruins of ancient cities and settlements. In addition, swastika symbols were depicted on various details of architecture, weapons, clothing and household utensils among many peoples of the world. Swastika symbolism is found everywhere in ornamentation as a sign of Light, Sun, Love, Life. The swastika was often printed by E. Phillips and other postcard makers in the United States and Great Britain in the 1900s and 1910s, calling it the “cross of happiness”, consisting of the “four Ls”: Light (light), Love (love), Life ( life) and Luck (good luck).

The Greek name for the swastika is “gammadion” (four letters “gamma”). In post-war Soviet legends, there was a widespread belief that the swastika consists of 4 letters “G”, symbolizing the first letters of the surnames of the leaders of the Third Reich - Hitler, Goebbels, Himmler, Goering (and this is taking into account that in German these surnames began with different letters - “ G" and "H").

Because “the consequences of the barbaric attitude towards the swastika turn out to be very disastrous for the modern culture of the Russian peoples. It is a known fact that during the Second World War, workers of the Kargopol Museum of Local Lore destroyed a number of unique embroideries containing the ornamental swastika motif for fear of being accused of Hitlerite agitation. To this day, in most museums, works of art containing swastikas are not included in the main exhibition. Thus, through the fault of public and state institutions that support “swastikophobia,” a millennia-old cultural tradition is being suppressed.”

An interesting incident related to this issue occurred in Germany in 2003. The Chairman of the German Falun Dafa Association (Falun Dafa - ancient system improvement of the soul and life, based on the improvement of morality) unexpectedly received a notice of criminal prosecution from the German district attorney, where he was accused of displaying an “illegal” symbol on a website (the Falun emblem contains the swastika of the Buddha system in its image).

The case turned out to be so unusual and interesting that its consideration lasted more than six months. The final verdict of the court stated that the Falun symbol is legal and acceptable in Germany, and also stated that the Falun symbol and the illegal symbol are completely different in appearance and have completely different meanings. Excerpt from the court's decision: “The Falun symbol represents peace and harmony in the mind, which is what the Falun Gong movement firmly stands for.

There are Falun Gong followers all over the world. Falun Gong is now brutally persecuted in its country of origin, China. So far, 35,000 people have been arrested, and several hundred of them have been sentenced to prison terms ranging from 2 to 12 years without any evidence being provided.” The prosecutor did not want to accept such a court verdict and filed an appeal.

After a thorough investigation of the District Court's verdict, the Court of Appeal decided to affirm the original verdict and refuse further appeals. A similar case occurred in Moldova, where a similar case had been pending since September 2008, and only on January 26, 2009, a court decision was made with a verdict to completely reject the prosecutor's request and recognize that the Falun Dafa Emblem has nothing to do with the Nazi swastika.

The swastika became popular in European culture in the 19th century - in the wake of the fashion of the Aryan theory. English astrologer Richard Morrison organized the Order of the Swastika in 1869. It is found on the pages of Rudyard Kipling's books. The swastika was also used by the founder of the Boy Scouts, Robert Baden-Powell. In 1915, the swastika, having been widespread in Latvian culture since ancient times, was depicted on the banners of battalions (then regiments) of Latvian riflemen in the Russian army. Occultists and theosophists also attached great importance to this sacred sign. According to the latter, “the swastika... is a symbol of energy in motion that creates the world, breaking holes in space, creating vortices, which are atoms that serve to create worlds.” The swastika was part of the personal emblem of H.P. Blavatsky and decorated almost everything printed publications Theosophists.

Suffice it to say that in the Middle Ages the swastika was never opposed to the six-pointed star as a supposedly specific symbol of Judaism. In the miniature for Alfonso Sabaean's "Canticles of Saint Mary", a swastika and two six-pointed stars are depicted next to a Jewish moneylender. Before World War II, a swastika mosaic decorated a synagogue in Hartford (Connecticut).
“Rainbow Swastika” by Hannah Newman, a person who stands on the positions of Orthodox Judaism. In her book, she exposes the so-called “Aquarius conspiracy,” which, in her opinion, is directed against world Jewry. She believes the main enemy of Jewry is the New Age movement, behind which are the mysterious occult forces of the East. For us, its conclusions are valuable in that they confirm our ideas about war, confrontation, two forces - the force of the present era, controlled by the Old Tower, the Black Lodge, and relying on the affirmation of material reality, and the force of the “dynamis”, the New Aeon, the Green Dragon or Ray, the White Lodge, striving to overcome this reality. It is very significant that according to Hannah Newman, Russia is under the control of a conservative Jewish-Christian alliance, preventing the destructive plans of the White Lodge. This explains the wars of the 20th century against Russia, as well as its inevitable “erosion” that we can see in our time.

“The book is called “The Rainbow Swastika”, its author is Hannah Newman. The first edition of the book appeared in March 1997 - the text was posted on the website of the University of Colorado by activists of the Jewish Student Union. Two years later, it was removed from the University of Colorado website without explanation. The full English text of the 2nd edition (2001) can be downloaded from the above address.
Written from the racist perspective of Orthodox Judaism, the book is quite detailed analysis philosophy and program of the NEW AGE movement, which the author identifies with the Illuminati and the forces behind the New World Order. In her opinion, Kabbalah is a foreign body in the doctrine of Judaism, a teaching closer to Tibetan BUDDHISM, destroying Judaism from within.

The tenets of the New Age are most clearly set out in the writings of the theorists of the Theosophical Society, founded by Helena Blavatsky (Khan) in 1875. The author traces the following ideological continuity: Helena Blavatsky - Alice Bailey - Benjamin Creme. Blavatsky herself claimed that her works were merely a recording of some esoteric teaching “under the dictation of the Tibetan Masters” named Morya and Koot Hoomi. Another Tibetan Master, Djwahl Kuhl, became Alice Bailey's guru. Almost all international organizations and structures are ideologically aligned with the New Age, starting with the UN and UNESCO and ending with such as Greenpeace, Scientology, World Council Churches, Council International Relations, Club of Rome, Bilderbergers, Order of Skull and Bones, etc.
Religious philosophical basis NA consists of Gnosticism, Kabbalah, Buddhism, the doctrine of reincarnation and racial karma, with the addition of a hodgepodge of almost all known pagan cults. The main blow of the movement is directed against monotheistic religions. Its goal is the establishment of the satanic cult of Maitreya/Lucifer, the worship of “Mother-Goddess Earth” (Mother Earth, capital “E” - hence Enron, Einstein, the recently activated Etna, etc.), reducing the planet’s population to 1 billion people and the transfer of civilization from a materialistic to a spiritual and mystical path of development. The author calls the New Age movement the “Aquarian Conspiracy,” after the title of a 1980 book by Marilyn Ferguson. The final goal is even more incredible, I will talk about it below.
The more down-to-earth and concrete guidelines of the Aquarian Conspiracy (since 1975 it has become OPEN) are the following four main goals:
Overcoming the PROBLEM OF TERRITORIAL POSSESSIONS, that is, the elimination of sovereign national state entities.
Resolving the PROBLEM OF SEX or changing the motivation of sexual relationships - their only goal should be “the production of physical bodies for the reincarnation of souls.”
Rethinking and reducing the psychological VALUE OF INDIVIDUAL LIFE to carry out a GLOBAL CLEANING on the planet, eliminating all opponents of the New Age and carrying out a WORLD INITIATION into the cult of Lucifer.
The Final Solution to the Problem of the Jews and Judaism.
There are 5 World Control Centers in establishing the NEW WORLD ORDER: London, New York, Geneva, Tokyo and Darjeeling (India). Benjamin Krem called Mikhail GORbachev one of the “disciples of Maitreya.” (Hitler was also a New Ager, even highlighted whole chapter, dedicated to the occult connections of the Nazis. There is nothing new in it, however.)
Inevitable, according to the author, a global collision must occur both on the material and on the spiritual-mystical level due to the intensification of the confrontation between the WHITE AND BLACK LODIES in the era of the change from the ERA OF PISCES (0-2000) to the ERA OF AQUARIUS (2000-4000). Representatives of the Black Lodge (Dark Forces) are supporters of the currently dominant concept of the material world and use the Jews as their tool for programming the consciousness of the masses in line with the dominant ILLUSION of physical reality. The White Lodge is a conductor of spirituality in the world and is under the leadership of a HIERARCHY of certain non-material ASCENDED MASTERS (Ascended Masters). Cosmology, mythology, eschatology and the NEW AGE program are detailed in the works of Blavatsky and Bailey. New Agers have their own TRINITY or LOGOS (apparently, this is the same LOGOS that was at the beginning of everything, according to the Gospel of John): Sanat Kumara (god-demiurge, creator of man), Maitreya-Christ (Messiah) and Lucifer (Satan, carrier light and reason). They form the Planetary Logos and embody the THREE MAIN COSMIC ENERGIES. A whole Hierarchy of masters, sages and teachers of humanity is built under them.
The outbreak of the Third World War is, according to the author, a manifestation on the material level of the clash of the White and Black Lodges (in other words, the clash of Gnostic Satanists with Jewish materialists). Russia is mentioned only once in the book, in the context of a quote from Alice Bailey, who considered it a completely controlled springboard of the BLACK LIE.

Plan.
Tibetan teacher Alice Bailey (Jwal Kul - DK) confirmed the prediction voiced at one time by Helena Blavatsky that the OPEN IMPLEMENTATION OF THE PLAN will begin no earlier than the “end of the 20th century.” It must be preceded by INFILTRATION of all layers of society by “agents of change”, the widespread spread of mystical practices, including those associated with the use of drugs to introduce adherents into a “stable state of altered consciousness.” What exactly should such a perversion of consciousness consist of? In the activation of intuition and REJECTION OF LOGICAL THINKING, and ultimately in the complete REJECTION OF OWN “I”, in dissolution in the COLLECTIVE EGREGOR. First, through the widespread cultivation of collective thinking (GROUP THINKING) and general synchronization of consciousness, the construction of ANTAHKARANA is achieved - the mystical horizontal BRIDGE OF THE RAINBOW (“The Rainbow Bridge”). Upon completion of the construction of the horizontal BRIDGE, when the ALL PLANETARY CONSCIOUSNESS is finally created, an attempt must be made to establish spiritual contact with the non-material representatives of the HIERARCHY (White Lodge), i.e., the construction of the VERTICAL ANTAHKARANA. The successful establishment of such contact by HUMANITY will be a prerequisite for its reaching a fundamentally new level development. According to one of the main ideologists of NEW AGE, candidate for US Vice President from the Democratic Party (1984) BARBARA MARX HUBBARD, the construction of the VERTICAL RAINBOW BRIDGE will be an irreversible change in the history of our civilization. According to other sources, the BRIDGE can only be established for a short period of time and will inevitably fall apart again.
Thus, the current process of GLOBALIZATION is nothing more than an attempt to build a mystical planetary RAINBOW BRIDGE to establish contact with the higher spiritual substances surrounding us. Karl Marx is resting!
All three substances of the LOGOS must sequentially materialize on Earth for the purpose of REACTIVATION OF THE PLAN: first Lucifer, then Maitreya and finally Sanat Kumara. Especially for the Jews, a scenario has already been developed for THE COMING OF THE MESSIAH, which will have to finally dismantle JUDAISM and, possibly, organize the HOLOCAUST - the large-scale liquidation of the Jews as carriers of vicious racial karma.
The author gives numerous examples of total infiltration of even Orthodox Jewish circles by New Agers. The scale of the AQUARIUS CONSPIRACY is staggering; many “non-religious Jews” take an active part in it, so that some researchers consider the NEW AGE movement to be one of the creations of Judaism. However, Hannah Newman is convinced that it is JUDAISM (together with Christianity and Islam) that will become its main victim. The main allies of Orthodox Jews in the fight against the Conspiracy are, in her opinion, Christian Evangelists, due to their ideological closeness to the Jews and the BIBLICAL FANATISM shared by both groups. "

“Ur-Ki” is the name of the oldest capital of the world; capitals of Russian, Jewish, Ukrainian, German, French, Italian, English, Swedish, Danish, Russian, Armenian, Georgian, Azerbaijani, Iranian, Iraqi, Indian, Chinese, Tibetan, Egyptian, Libyan, Spanish, American and almost all other peoples of the world .

“Ur-Ki” is the ancient name of Kyiv, which at first was located just down the Dnieper (in the Cherkassy region, where the ruins of the largest and most ancient city in the world were recently found), and now is the capital of Ukraine, holy city first-ancestors - Kyiv.
The name of the ancient capital of the world “Ur-Ki” consists of ancient Russian words - the word “Ur” and the word “Ki”. “Ur” is the name of the ancient Russian God the Son, his parents and creators of all things are considered to be God the Father (Almighty) and the Mother Goddess (Agni), who in the first element of fire (Sva) gave birth from the Unmanifested world of images to the Manifested world - that is, who gave birth God the Son of Ur, who is the entire visible Universe. The sacred texts of the Russian Religion say that Ur in its evolution reached the highest form - man. Man is Ur, that is, in form and content, man is the entire known and unknown Universe. Man is the entire immortal Universe and he is outside of time and space, he is infinite and eternal. Ur and Man are Light, One and Eternal. And as it is written in the Kyiv Rig Veda: “We came from the Light and will go into the Light...” This means that the ancient Rus believed that man would continue his evolution and “radiant humanity” would arise, where man would finally develop into the God-man Ur and in form will represent itself as thinking intelligent matter in the form of an immortal shining Light, capable of creating any form.

I have to stop there. Old Russian interpretation of the word “Ur” by what was briefly reported above. I will add that in ancient times (and in the East to this day, which not everyone knows) our self-name was “Urus” or often even simpler “Ury”. Hence the words: “culture” (cult of Ur); “ancestors” (ancestors); Ural (Ural); Uristan (stan of Ur) and thousands of other words in almost all languages ​​of the world. The most ancient symbols of Ur have survived to this day: the battle cry of Russian warriors “Hurray!” and a rotating fiery swastika, elements of which are depicted in the surviving temples of Sophia - the Holy Old Russian Wisdom (in Kyiv, Novgorod, Baghdad, Jerusalem and thousands of other Russian cities on all continents of the world).

The word "Ki" in Old Russian means "land = territory", so the name of ancient Kyiv - "Ur-Ki" in modern Russian means "Divine Land of the First Ancestors". Thus, the origin of the modern word “Kyiv” is not at all from the legendary Prince Kiy, as the enemies of the Russian people deceive, and therefore until the Middle Ages (when the entire world history was falsified in favor of our enemies with the destruction of everything ancient Russian and the fabrication of false ancient “books” ", "monuments", etc.) in all ancient books in all languages, Kyiv was most often called the "Mother City". The expressions “Mother Earth” and “Kyiv Mother” have still survived to this day, contrary to the wishes of our enemies. And the expression: “Kyiv is the Mother of Russian cities!” every schoolchild in the world knows. I draw your attention to “Mother of Russian cities!” Otherwise, the enemies of the Russian people have falsified historical science so much that even those of them who consider themselves “historians” write books about the mysterious “ancestral homeland of the Aryans”, the mysterious “Indo-European proto-civilization”, “northern Hyperborea”, the incomprehensible “Tripoli culture”, unknown where did “Great Mongolia” come from (Great Tartary = Great Mogolia = Great Russia, etc.) and in all these “ scientific works“There is no Kyiv, which means there is no MOTHER and no GOD.

As a result of Russian military campaigns in Europe, China, India, Mesopotamia, Palestine, Egypt, etc., our ancient culture had a significant influence on these peoples. In the art of many nations, the ancient Russian “animal style”, “cosmogonic cross”, “magic swastika”, the image of the “secret wheel of history”, horse heads in “vortex cosmic movement” appeared; image of a sword; an image of a horseman piercing a dragon with a spear, where the dragon symbolizes world evil; image of the “Mother Goddess”, where Agni was meant - “goddess of the Fiery Cosmos”; an image of a deer, symbolizing the spiritual beauty of nature, etc. It is not for nothing that modern archaeological scientists find an image of a Russian Ruthenian deer and Russian iron swords all over the world - from the Pacific Ocean to the Atlantic and from Egypt and India to the Arctic.

Since ancient times, swastika symbolism has been the main and dominant symbol among almost all peoples on the territory of Eurasia: Slavs, Germans, Mari, Pomors, Skalvi, Curonians, Scythians, Sarmatians, Mordovians, Udmurts, Bashkirs, Chuvash, Indians, Icelanders, Scots and many others.

In many ancient Beliefs and religions, the Swastika is the most important and brightest cult symbol. Thus, in ancient Indian philosophy and Buddhism, the Swastika is a symbol of the eternal cycle of the universe, a symbol of the Buddha’s Law, to which all things are subject. (Dictionary “Buddhism”, M., “Republic”, 1992); in Tibetan Lamaism - a protective symbol, a symbol of happiness and a talisman.
In India and Tibet, the Swastika is depicted everywhere: on the walls and gates of temples, on residential buildings, as well as on the fabrics in which all sacred texts and tablets are wrapped. Very often, sacred texts from the Book of the Dead, which are written on funeral covers, are framed with swastika ornaments before cremation.

The swastika, what ancient figurative meaning it carries, what it has meant for many millennia and means now for the Slavs and Aryans and the many peoples inhabiting our Earth. In these media, alien to the Slavs, the Swastika is called either a German cross or a fascist sign and reduces its image and meaning only to Adolf Hitler, Germany 1933-45, to fascism (National Socialism) and the Second World War. Modern “journalists”, “is-Toriki” and guardians of “universal human values” seem to have forgotten that the Swastika is the oldest Russian symbol, that in past times, representatives of the highest authorities, in order to enlist the support of the people, always made the Swastika a state symbol and placed its image on money .

Nowadays, few people know that the matrices of the 250 ruble banknote, with the image of the Swastika symbol - Kolovrat against the background of a double-headed eagle, were made according to a special order and sketches of the last Russian Tsar Nicholas II. The Provisional Government used these matrices to issue banknotes in denominations of 250, and later 1000 rubles. Beginning in 1918, the Bolsheviks introduced new banknotes in denominations of 5,000 and 10,000 rubles, on which three Swastika-Kolovrat are depicted: two smaller Kolovrat in the side ligatures are intertwined with large numbers 5,000, 10,000, and a large Kolovrat is placed in the middle. But, unlike the 1000 rubles of the Provisional Government, which had the State Duma depicted on the reverse side, the Bolsheviks placed a double-headed eagle on banknotes. Money with the Swastika-Kolovrat was printed by the Bolsheviks and was in use until 1923, and only after the appearance of USSR banknotes were they taken out of circulation.

The authorities of Soviet Russia, in order to gain support in Siberia, created sleeve patches in 1918 for the soldiers of the Red Army of the South-Eastern Front, they depicted a Swastika with the abbreviation R.S.F.S.R. inside. But the Russian Government of A.V. Kolchak did the same, calling under the banner of the Siberian Volunteer Corps; Russian emigrants in Harbin and Paris, and then the National Socialists in Germany.

Created in 1921 according to the sketches of Adolf Hitler, the party symbols and flag of the NSDAP (National Socialist German Workers' Party) subsequently became the state symbols of Germany (1933-1945). In Mein Kampf, Hitler describes in detail how this symbol was chosen. He personally determined the final form of the swastika and developed a version of the banner, which became the model for all subsequent party flags. Hitler believed that the new flag should have the same effectiveness as a political poster. The Fuhrer also writes about colors for the party flag, which were considered, but were rejected. White “was not a color that captivates the masses,” but was most suitable “for virtuous old maids and for all kinds of Lenten unions.” Black was also rejected as it was far from eye-catching. The combination of blue and white colors was excluded because they were the official colors of Bavaria. The white and black combination was also unacceptable. There was no question of a black-red-gold banner, since it was used by the Weimar Republic. Black, white and red were inappropriate in their old combination due to the fact that they "represented the old Reich, which died as a result of its own weaknesses and mistakes." Nevertheless, Hitler chose these three colors because, in his opinion, they were better than all the others (“this is the most powerful accord of colors that is possible”). Not any swastika fits the definition of “Nazi” symbols, but only a four-pointed one, standing on an edge at 45°, with the ends directed to the right. This very sign was on the state banner of National Socialist Germany from 1933 to 1945, as well as on the emblems of civil and military services. Few people now know that in Germany the National Socialists did not use the Swastika, but a symbol similar to it in design - Hakenkreuz, which has a completely different figurative meaning - changing the world around us and a person’s worldview.

By the way, in the minds of the soldiers who saw crosses on Wehrmacht tanks during World War II, it was these Wehrmacht crosses that were fascist crosses and Nazi symbols.

For many millennia, different designs of swastika symbols have had a powerful influence on people’s lifestyles, their psyche (Soul) and subconscious, uniting representatives of different tribes for some bright purpose; gave a powerful surge of light divine forces, revealing the internal reserves in people for comprehensive creation for the benefit of their Clans, in the name of justice, prosperity and well-being of their Fatherland.

At first, only the clergy of various Tribal cults, creeds and religions used this, then representatives of the highest state authorities began to use swastika symbols - princes, kings, etc., and after them all kinds of occultists and political figures turned to the Swastika.

After the Bolsheviks completely captured all levels of power, the need for support of the Soviet regime by the Russian people disappeared, because it would be easier to confiscate the values ​​​​created by the same Russian people. Therefore, in 1923, the Bolsheviks abandoned the Swastika, leaving only the five-pointed star, Hammer and Sickle as state symbols.

In February 1925, the Kuna Indians expelled the Panamanian gendarmes from their territory, announcing the creation of the independent Republic of Tula, on the banner of which was. "Tula" is translated as "people", the self-name of the tribe, and the swastika is their ancient symbol. In 1942, the flag was slightly changed so as not to evoke associations with Germany: a “nose ring” was put on the swastika, “because everyone knows that Germans do not wear nose rings.” Subsequently, the Kuna-Tula swastika returned to its original version and is still a symbol of the independence of the republic.

Until 1933 (the year the Nazis came to power), the swastika was used as a personal coat of arms by the writer Rudyard Kipling. For him, she embodied Strength, Beauty, Originality and Illumination. Thanks to Paul Klee, the swastika became the emblem of the avant-garde artistic and architectural association Bauhaus.

In 1995, an incident occurred in Glendale, California, when a small group of anti-fascist fanatics attempted to force city officials to replace 930 (!) light poles installed between 1924 and 1926. Reason: the cast iron pedestals are surrounded by an ornament of 17 swastikas. The local Historical Society had to prove with documents in hand that the poles purchased at one time from the Union Metal Company of Canton (Ohio) had nothing to do with the Nazis, and therefore could not offend anyone’s feelings. Swastika design was based on both classical art and local traditions Navajo Indians, for whom the swastika has long served as an auspicious sign. In addition to Glendale, similar poles were installed in other places in the county in the 1920s.
The main symbol of fascism is certainly the fascia (from the Latin fascis, a bunch), which Benito Mussolini borrowed from Ancient Rome. The fasces were rods tied with a leather belt, with a lictor's hatchet inserted inside. Such bunches were carried by lictors (servants under the highest magistrates and some priests) in front of the government official they accompanied. The rods symbolized the right of punishment, the ax of execution. Inside Rome, the ax was removed, since here the people were the highest authority for death sentences. When Mussolini founded his Italian Nationalist Movement in March 1919, his banner was the tricolor with the lictor's hatchet, symbolizing the unity of war veterans. The organization was called “Fashi di Combattimento” and served as the basis for the creation of the fascist party in 1922. It should be remembered that fasces are a common decorative element of the classicism style, in which many buildings of the 18th and early 19th centuries were built. (including in St. Petersburg and Moscow), therefore their use in the context of this style is not “fascist”. In addition, fasces with hatchets and a Phrygian cap became a symbol of the French Revolution of 1789.
The number of Nazi symbols can include specific emblems of the SS, Gestapo and other organizations operating under the auspices of the Third Reich. But the elements that make up these emblems (runes, oak leaves, wreaths, etc.) should not be prohibited in themselves.

A sad case of “swastikophobia” is the regular (since 1995) cutting down of larch trees in the public sector forest near Zernikov (60 miles north of Berlin). Planted in 1938 by a local businessman, each fall the larches formed a yellow swastika of needles among the evergreen pines. The swastika of 57 larches with an area of ​​360 m^2 could only be seen from the air. After the reunification of Germany, the question of felling arose in 1992, and the first trees were destroyed in 1995. By 2000, 25 of the 57 larches had been cut down, according to the Associated Press and Reuters, but authorities and the public are concerned that the symbol may still be visible. This is indeed a serious matter: young shoots are creeping out from the remaining roots. The pity here is caused, first of all, by people whose hatred has reached the brink of psychosis.

The Sanskrit exclamation “svasti!” translated, in particular, as “good!” and to this day sounds in the rituals of Hinduism, framing the pronunciation of the sacred syllable AUM (“AUM Tackle!”). Analyzing the word “swastika”, Gustav Dumoutier divided it into three syllables: su-auti-ka. ou root meaning "good", "good", superlative or suridas, "prosperity". Auti is the third person singular form in the present indicative mood of the verb as “to be” (Latin sum). Ka is a substantive suffix.
The Sanskrit name suastika, wrote Max Müller to Heinrich Schliemann, is close to the Greek “perhaps”, “possible”, “allowed”. There is an Anglo-Saxon name for the swastika sign, Fylfot, which R.F. Greg derived from fower fot, four-footed, i.e. "four-" or "many-legged". The word Fylfot itself Scandinavian origin and consists of Old Norse fiel, equivalent to Anglo-Saxon fela, German viel (“many”) and fotr, foot (“foot”), i.e. "multipede" figure. However, in scientific literature and Fylfot, and the above-mentioned “tetraskelis” with a gammatic cross, and the “hammer of Thor” (Mjollnir), erroneously identified with the swastika, were gradually replaced by the Sanskrit name.

According to M. Müller, the right-handed gamma cross (suastika) is a sign of light, life, holiness and well-being, which corresponds in nature to the spring, waxing sun. The left-handed sign, suavastika, on the contrary, expresses darkness, doom, evil and destruction; it corresponds to the waning, autumn luminary. We find a similar line of reasoning in the Indologist Charles Beardwood. Suastika - daytime sun, active state, day, summer, light, life and glory; this set of concepts is expressed by the Sanskrit pradakshina, manifested through masculinity, patronized by the god Ganesha. Suavastika is also the sun, but underground or nocturnal, passive, winter, darkness, death and obscurity; it corresponds to the Sanskrit prasavya, the feminine principle and the goddess Kali. In the annual solar cycle, the left-sided swastika is a symbol of the summer solstice, from which daylight begins to decrease, and the right-sided winter solstice, from which the day gains strength. The main traditions of humanity (Hinduism, Buddhism, Christianity, Islam, etc.) contain both right- and left-sided swastikas, which are assessed not on a “good-evil” scale, but as two sides of a single process. Thus, “destruction” is not “evil” in the dualistic sense for Eastern metaphysics, but only the other side of creation, etc.

In ancient times, when our Ancestors used the ‘Aryan Runes, the word Swastika was translated as Who Came from Heaven. Since Rune - SVA meant Heaven (hence Svarog - Heavenly God), - C - Rune of direction; Runes - TIKA - movement, coming, flow, running. Our children and grandchildren still pronounce the word tick, i.e. run. In addition, the figurative form - TIKA is still found in everyday words Arctic, Antarctic, mysticism, homiletics, politics, etc.

I’m closer to the traditional version of the Aryan decoding of the word.

Su asti ka: su asti is a greeting, a wish for good luck, prosperity, ka is a prefix denoting a particularly emotional attitude.

Message quote The swastika is the oldest Slavic symbol

character "卐" or "卍", Skt.. स्वस्तिक from स्वस्ति svasti- greeting, wish of good luck, prosperity) - a cross with curved ends (“rotating”), directed either clockwise or counterclockwise. - THE SWASTIKA HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH FASCISM UNTIL 1941

The Swastika was popular among Slavic peoples, undoubtedly the most prosperous in the ancient world. The possession of the most extensive and rich lands and a numerous population are the heritage of this prosperity. The swastika accompanied the Slavs from the first to the last day of their lives, emblazoned on amulets, clothing, cradles, religious objects and buildings, weapons, banners, coats of arms, etc. It takes its form from the most global, most impressive human substance - cosmic, copying the profile of galaxies (our galaxy is named Swati), comets and the trajectory of the polar constellation - Ursa Minor.

Swastika reflects main view movement in the Universe - rotational with its derivative - translational, can symbolize any philosophical categories and, most importantly - don't let yourself be offended .

Therefore, the Slavs used at least 144 varieties of Swastika. Here are some of them followed by brief description:

One Russian tourist, having visited Southeast Asia, reported his impressions on social networks. In Bangkok, he saw a man who had a large swastika on the front and back of his T-shirt.

The tourist's blood rushed to his head. He wanted to immediately explain to the stupid native what kind of disgusting thing he was wearing. But, having cooled down a little, the Russian decided to abstain from communication: maybe local just doesn’t know anything about “German fascism”? Nevertheless, the shock from what he saw was so great that, upon returning home, he turned to the forum visitors with the question: “What to do in such a situation?”

Swastikas past and present

Indeed, most Asians do not know who Hitler is. Some may have heard of World War II. But even the most educated people are unlikely to be able to say exactly who fought with whom and why. But in India, almost everyone knows well that the swastika is a symbol of prosperity, the sun, a sign of favorable destinies. Not a single wedding in India, Nepal, South Korea cannot do without this symbol.

The swastika appeared in ancient times and was widespread throughout Eurasia. It is an integral part of Buddhism, with which it came to China, Siam and Japan. This symbol is also used by other religions. At the end of the 19th - beginning of the 20th century, due to the fascination with the culture of the East, the swastika became very popular in Europe.

In the summer of 1917, the Russian Provisional Government even placed a large swastika on the 250-ruble bill, against the backdrop of a double-headed eagle. Some white units placed the swastika on their shoulder straps. The Bolsheviks also did not escape the general trend 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 swastika is also impressive. In the end, People's Commissar Lunacharsky harshly 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 distant ancestors found something attractive in this symbol, it seems so sinister to us.

The denial of the swastika is firmly ingrained in the consciousness of the majority European peoples. But humanity consists not only of Europeans, and this has to be taken into account, especially when traveling abroad. As they say, you don’t go to someone else’s monastery with your own rules.

Fascia among the Nazis

The symbol of fascism, the fascia, unlike the swastika, is not a sign that causes irritation in the post-Soviet space. And in Europe they treat him very tolerantly. One of the reasons, apparently, lies in the fact that the fascists did not cause as much trouble as the Nazis. At the very least, they were “only” going to conquer other peoples, but not destroy them.

Fasces 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 calling the National Socialists “German fascists.” Fascists are members of the Italian radical party created by B. Mussolini.

The fact is that then certain difficulties arose in identifying the enemy. Hitler's party, the NSDAP, was considered both socialist and workers, had a red flag and celebrated the proletarian holiday of May 1. Explaining to not very literate people how Hitler’s socialism differed from Stalin’s was simply an impossible task. But there were no problems with the term “German fascists”. In Soviet Union.

But it did not take root in Europe, despite all the efforts of the Comintern. People there simply did not understand what they were talking about when, instead of the usual word “Nazi,” they heard the long and indigestible “German fascism.” Therefore, 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 term “fascism” itself comes from the word “fascia”. Fascia was a symbol of power in Ancient Rome. It was a bundle of birch twigs into which an ax was stuck. Fasces were worn by lictors - accompanying persons and at the same time guards of high-ranking officials.

Lictor with fasces

Later, in heraldry, fasces became a symbol of state and national unity, a symbol of the defense of the state. This symbol is still widely used today. Fascia is present in the symbolism of the Russian federal penitentiary services 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 levels 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 united.”

Of course, one cannot call all structures, and especially states, fascist because of the presence of fasces on their banners and coats of arms. Fascia was luckier than the swastika. - She doesn’t cause such rejection. Although in Moscow from 1997 to 2002 there was a law providing for punishment for promoting fascia.

Red Star

A very popular symbol is the 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, by order of Trotsky, declared 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 protector of peaceful labor. After some time the plow was replaced with a sickle. The red star emblem was worn on the chest. But later they began to wear the star on hats, instead of a 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 different religions and peoples. But during the Inquisition, the attitude towards the pentagram in Europe changed radically, and it began to be called “the witch’s foot.” Later it was clarified that the symbol of Satan is only an inverted star - when one ray is directed downward, and two rays looking up form, as it were, horns.

And a 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” onto epaulettes and shoulder straps.

The stars on the American flag were originally eight-pointed. But under the influence of local Masons they were very quickly replaced with five-pointed ones. The US military, like its Soviet counterparts, uses the pentacle to represent nationality military equipment.

"George Ribbon"

Recently, the red star, the only symbol of the Soviet army and its victories, has had a competitor - the orange and black “St. George Ribbon”. For all its visual attractiveness and even similarity to the St. George Ribbon, it is inappropriate to call it that. On the real St. George's ribbon there are three black and two yellow stripes, which symbolize the three deaths and two resurrections of St. George the Victorious.

From 1917 until 1992, the St. George ribbon was not used in any Soviet awards. But she was involved in the White Army and the Russian Corps, which fought on the side of Hitler. A person with such a ribbon, who fell into the hands of the NKVD or Smersh during the war, would, at best, be sent to a concentration camp. The current “St. George’s ribbon” repeats the colors of the blocks of the Order of Glory and the medal “For Victory over Germany” and in no way relates to the life and death of St. George the Victorious.

In any case, the Russians liked the ribbon and are perceived today as a symbol of the Great Patriotic War. She is perceived the same way in Belarus. But in Ukraine the perception of this symbol is ambiguous.
People who are 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 very negative attitude towards the ribbon, considering it an element of “imperial” propaganda, along with other Soviet symbols.

Anatoly PONOMARENKO

"Secrets of the 20th century"