UNION OF SOVIET SOCIALIST REPUBLICS RUSSIAN SWASTIKAS & SALUTES
How Stalin, Mao &
Hitler and the USSR & PRC & NSDAP were influenced
by socialists in the USA, the Pledge Of Allegiance etc.,
Swastikas, Red Stars, Hammer and Sickle http://rexcurry.net/swastika4.gif
Swastikas
^ Hammer and Sickle Tattoos
of the USSR and
Soviet Socialist Swastikas are related to tattoo topics in the USSA (United
Socialist States of America) http://rexcurry.net/tattoos.html
Soviet Socialist Swastikas are scary reminders of similar symbolism
under the National Socialist German Workers Party. It
is a scary reminder of tattooing that was forced upon people persecuted
in Germany. It is related swastika fetishism,
and the "Socialist Slavery" symbolized by the overlapping S-letters
of the swastika under the NSDAP. See adults-only graphic images at http://rexcurry.net/swastika-sex-girls-nudity-porn-xxx.html
LEARN HOW AMERICAN
GIRL SCOUTS & SCOUTING SPREAD THE NAZI SALUTE & SWASTIKA
Oppose the National Socialist German Workers'
Party and its socialist legacies that exist in today's
government.
For more information
regarding Nazi policies in the USA see http://rexcurry.net/police-state.html
A lot of fascinating
research examines how socialists and their propaganda
have haunted the world. Many authors worry today about a
future filled with persecution and global socialism. Those
worries find relevance in the enormous size and scope of government
worldwide.
In 1917, socialism
was imposed in Russia when the former Union of Soviet
Socialist Republics (USSR) was formed after the Russian Revolution
of 1917, and the Russian Civil War of 1918-1920. The propaganda
machinary introduced a new symbol for the new government:
the swastika. http://rexcurry.net/ussr-socialist-swastika-cccp-sssr.html
The Soviet swastika was so popular that paper
money printed in the years 1917 and 1918 carried large swastikas
in the center of the bills. The Soviet swastika notes continued
to be issued after the 1917 revolution(s). http://rexcurry.net/ussr-socialist-swastika1917-1000b.JPG
In 1919, the same 250 ruble note that had carried
the swastika carried at the very top of the soviet socialist
bill the phrase "Proletarier aller Länder vereinigt
Euch" in the German language (Workers' of the world unite!").
The USSR was actively and openly spreading socialism in
Germany (and globally).The 250 ruble note also contained Soviet
Socialism's new version of the soviet swastika: the hammer and sickle.
http://rexcurry.net/swastika4.gif
A similar fad grew in Germany,
where the swastika symbol was popular with socialists
and became the sign of the National Socialist German Workers'
Party (NSGWP).
The double-S symbol of the swastika was used as a socialist symbol
for an alternative to the widespread symbol for capitalism and capitalist
money (the dollar sign or "$"). http://rexcurry.net/socialisthate.html
Soviet Socialists and German Socialists also saw
that the swastika was adopted by American soldiers in the 45th
Infantry Division and in the Escadrille Lafayette Americaine during
World War I and adorned American soldiers' shoulder patches, flags
and planes used in the fight against Germany. http://rexcurry.net/45th-infantry-division-swastika-sooner-soldiers.html
Through the work of socialists in the USA, the
USSR, and Germany respectively, the swastika became a
global symbol of socialism.
Eventually, Soviet socialists
switched from the swastika to the hammer and sickle.
The hammer and sickle resembles the earlier Soviet swastika
flipped horizontally. The USSR's hammer and sickle might
have been intended as a visual reminder of the Russian version
of its own earlier swastika.
The swastika flag under
German National Socialism was influenced by the Soviet
swastika and by the hammer and sickle of Soviet socialism.
The swastika of German socialists and the hammer and
sickle of Soviet socialists have visual similarity. Each
symbol resembles the other symbol pointing in the opposite direction.
In the same way that the swastika was
two "S" letters crossed to represent socialists joining together,
the hammer and the sickle were crossed to represent workers joining
with peasants, or factory workers joining with agricultural workers.
At that time, the swastika was also a symbol
of "superior society" or the "super society of socialism" for
the new "super socialist man" in the New World Order (NWO). To
learn more see George Bernard Shaw "Man and Superman" (1903), read
about his visit with Stalin (the socialist tsar / czar) in the 1930s,
and consider this quote from his letter to Henry James of 17 January
1909: "I, as a Socialist, have had to preach, as much as anyone, the
enormous power of the environment. We can change it; we must change it;
there is absolutely no other sense in life than the task of changing
it. What is the use of writing plays, what is the use of writing anything,
if there is not a will which finally moulds chaos itself into a race of
gods." Having visited the USSR in 1930s, Shaw became an ardent supporter
of Stalin and Soviet Socialism. After being duped by a carefully managed
tour of the country, Shaw declared all the stories of the socialist Wholecaust
were slander. In private, Stalin disparaged Shaw. Shaw was asked why
he did not want to stay permanently in the "earthly paradise" of the
Soviet Super Society.
The Soviet swastika was
unusual to most swastikas (but the same as the German
swastika) due to these features: it was 45 degrees to the
horizontal (in a diamond shape), it was pointed clockwise, it
was squared at its corners, and it was proportionally the same
as the swastika used later by German National Socialists.
Swastikas can point either way and are often flat on one side. The
Soviet swastika and the German swastika were the same swastika.
The swastika had been used by socialist groups in Germany before
1917, however the earlier use was never the same as the Soviet swastika,
and the symbol was almost always flat on one side and likely to point
in either direction. When German National Socialists altered their
swastika it occurred after the debut of the Soviet swastika in 1917.
The definitive version of the swastika under German National Socialism
(e.g. the version on the flag) was inspired by the Soviet swastika.
The Soviet swastika's
unusual orientation emphasizes the appearance of
alphabetic "S" lettering.
Although the swastika
was an ancient symbol, the historian Dr. Rex Curry
(author of "Swastika Secrets") discovered that it was
also used sometimes by German National Socialists to represent
"S" letters for their "socialism." The leader of German
National Socialism rotated the symbol 45 degrees and had newer
uses oriented clockwise. He altered his own signature to use
the same symbolism, and similar alphabetic symbolism still
shows on Volkswagens. http://rexcurry.net/book1a1contents-swastika.html
The NSGWP's use of the
swastika as "S" letters in alphabetic symbolism for
"Socialism" was inspired by the Soviet swastika. The USSR's
swastika was seen as a union of "S" letters for "Soviet Socialist"
as in the "Union of Soviet Socialist Republics" (In German:
"Union der Sozialistischen Sowjetrepubliken"). After the
swastika became the symbol of German National Socialists, the
symbol was altered to represent intertwined "S" letters for "Sieg
Socialism" (Socialist Victory) or "Socialist Solidarity" or representing
socialists from different groups joining together under the NSGWP
(especially after other groups were banned in another example of
German socialists copying Soviet socialists).
If the acronym "USSR"
used a swastika to replace the two "S" letters, then
it would illustrate the symbolism of the Soviet swastika,
similar to how it appeared in the center of paper currency
under Soviet socialism. In 1917, some Soviet Socialists
might have interpreted the symbol more generally as "Soviet
Socialists" or "Union of Soviets" or "Union of Socialists"
("Sovetskikh Sotsialisticheskikh" or "Soyuz Sovetskikh" or
"Soyuz Sotsialisticheskikh" from "Soyuz Sovetskikh Sotsialisticheskikh
Respublik" or SSSR).
German National Socialists
and Soviet Socialists have a history of aping
each other. The flag color for German National Socialists
was influenced by Soviet Socialists.
One country mimicked
the other in the adoption of the salutes that they
imposed on their civilians, and both countries mimicked the
United States (the origin of their salutes). Dr. Rex Curry
showed that the USA's early Pledge of Allegiance (to the flag)
used an extended-arm salute and it was the origin of the salute
of the German National Socialists and Soviet Socialists. Francis
Bellamy created the pledge to the USA's flag, and he was a self-proclaimed
socialist in the nationalism movement in the USA. The USA's original
pledge began with a military salute that then stretched out
toward the flag. Dr. Curry showed that, due to the way that both
gestures were used sequentially in the pledge, the military salute
led to the salute adopted later by German Socialists and Soviet
Socialists. Their salutes are extended military salutes via the USA's
pledge. http://rexcurry.net/book1a1contents-pledge.html
Bellamy's original pledge
stated that the palm should be turned upward with
the arm gracefully curved upward. In actual practice in the
USA, the second part of the gesture was performed with a straight
arm and palm down by children who merely extended the military
salute while perfunctorily performing the forced ritual chanting.
That was the origin of the hard stylized salute adopted later
by German National Socialists.
The Soviet socialist
salute is arguably closer to Bellamy's first description
because the arm is maintained in a curved position as if
the American salute was started but not completed. Soviet socialists
then followed the American practice of not turning the palm
upward. http://rexcurry.net/ussr-cccp-sssr-young-pioneers-salute1.jpg
The National Socialist German
Workers’ Party began in 1920, gained electoral breakthroughs
in 1930, dictatorship in 1933, and in 1939 it joined as allies
with the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics to invade Poland
in a Pact to divide up Europe, spreading WWII. http://rexcurry.net/socialists.html
They USSR embraced the swastika symbol even
more then, and the hammer and sickle was displayed proudly
next to and in partnership with the socialist swastika.
The dogma of socialists in
the United States, Germany, Russia and elsewhere
led to the socialist Wholecaust (of which the Holocaust was
a part): 65 million slaughtered under the Union of Soviet
Socialist Republics; 49 million under the Peoples' Republic
of China; 21 million under the National Socialist German
Workers' Party. http://rexcurry.net/socialists.jpg
In the book "The Americans: 1587-1914" by Joseph Chamberlain Furnas
(1969) page 726 it references Edward Bellamy with: "Gorky classed
Bellamy with Henry George and Jack London as American influences
important among Russian radicals."
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Alfred Rosenberg was
another notorious socialist who was active in Russia
(in 1917) and in Germany (in the National Socialist German
Workers' Party). The noted historian Dr. Rex Curry has suggested
that this may have been the inspiration behind the adoption
of the swastika as alphabetic symbolism for "socialism" by
the National Socialist German Workers' Party.
Rosenberg was born to
Baltic German parents in Reval (Tallinn) Estonia,
then part of the Russian Empire. He studied architecture at
the Riga Polyechnical Institute and engineering at Moscow
University, completing his Ph.D. studies in 1917.
After the Russian Revolution
of 1917, he emigrated to Germany (in 1918) along with
his friend Max Scheubner-Richter. Rosenberg was one of
the earliest (January 1919) members of the German Workers
Party and it became the National Socialist German Workers
Party and adopted the swastika as its symbol and used the
symbol to represent "S" letters for "socialist." In 1921, Rosenberg
became editor of the Völkischer Beobachter ("Folkish
Observer"), the newspaper of the National Socialists.
Rosenberg also became
a member of the Thule Society, founded August 17,
1918. Rosenberg and Thule Society touted oddball ideas
about socialism, universal brotherhood, and the Aryan race
that were all borrowed from the notorious socialist and occultist
Madame Blavatsky and her Theosophical Society, formed
in New York in 1875. The Thule Society used a swastika
as its symbol, however the Thule swastika was not the same swastika
used by German National Socialists. The swastika used by
German National Socialists was the same swastika that had been
used for forty years by Madame Blavatsky as a symbol for her utopian
"socialist society." http://rexcurry.net/theosophy-madame-blavatsky-theosophical-society.html
Thule Society members
maintained close contacts with followers of Theosophy
and the followers of Helena Blavatsky. It is also interesting
to note that the names of both groups had the same "TS"
initials that the Theosophical Society had used in its symbolism
for decades.
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Vladimir Lenin (the
first leader of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics)
was fluent in German, English, and other languages. Many
educated Russians were fluent in other languages.
Lenin is credited with
translating Karl Marx's Manifesto from German into
Russian. Marx was German.
The book "Lenin - A
New Biography," page 8. ISBN 0-02-933435-7 by Dimitri
Volkogonov states that Lenin's antecedents were Russian,
German, Swedish, and others.
Lenin had previously
lived in Munich, Germany and in Vienna, Austria (Both
cities were essentially the hometowns of the leader of the
National Socialist German Workers' Party).
Lenin's original name
was not "Lenin." He adopted the pseudonym "Lenin"
in Germany. His previous name was: Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov.
The name Lenin was acquired while he was staying near Lehnin
Abbey, in Brandenburg, Germany. It is fascinating to
note here another ominous parallel with the life of the leader
of German National Socialism who resided at Lambach Abbey in Austria,
and first saw the swastika symbol on the Abbey's exterior decorations.
Lenin had been in Germany
shortly before returning to the USSR in 1917. He traveled
throughout Germany and Europe meeting other socialists
and making plans. Lenin collaborated with powerful socialist
politicans in Germany, including Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht
(They are sometimes referred to as "The Three L's" for Lenin,
Luxemburg and Liebknecht). Another of the many socialist groups
that existed in Germany at that time was the German Workers'
Party, in existance since 1902, and later to become the National
Socialist German Workers' Party (Nationalsozialistische Deutsche
Arbeiterpartei in 1919. The leader of the NSGWP had wanted to
call the group the "Social Revolutionary Party"). Some of the many
socialist groups were known as Freikorps and they already used
the swastika symbol in Germany (although at that time the symbol
was always flat on one side and likely to point in either direction).
On November 9, 1918, Liebknecht declared the formation of a "Deutsche
Freie Sozialistische Republik" (German Free Socialist Republic).
Some Freikorps groups were used in aid of the new socialist provisional
government in Germany.
At the time of the overthrow
of Tsar Nicholas II (March 1917) at Petrograd in the
1917 February Revolution, Vladimir Lenin was residing in
Switzerland (during WWI) but, with the aid of the German
government, he was able to return to Russia quickly. Fritz Platten,
a swiss citizen, made special arrangments with the German
government for Lenin and his company to travel through Germany
by train. Once past Germany, Lenin continued by ferry to Sweden, and
the rest of the trip through Scandinavia was arranged by Otto Grimlund
and Ture Nerman.
Back in his own Fatherland,
Lenin was accused of being a traitor and an agent
of Germany by Aleksander Kerensky and others. The Soviet
swastika might be more evidence that supports that accusation.
After murdering so many
people, Lenin died (1924) of complications years
after a murder attempt (in 1918) by an assassin who accused
him of being a traitor. On August 30, 1918, Fanya Kaplan shot
Lenin three times and later explained that she considered
Lenin a traitor, and particularly so for Lenin's banning of other
socialist groups, including her group. She was a member of the
Socialist Revolutionary Party (It is interesting to note that the
leader of the NSGWP had originally wanted to call his party the
"Social Revolutionary Party"). An earlier (and possibly unrelated)
assassination attempt had occurred on January 14, 1918, when
gun shots had been fired at Lenin as he rode in a car with Fritz
Platten (the person who had arranged Germany's aid in returning
Lenin to Russia).
Lenin's dogma was the same dogma that led to the
socialist Wholecaust (of which the Holocaust was a part):
65 million slaughtered under the Union of Soviet Socialist
Republics; 49 million under the Peoples' Republic of China;
21 million under the National Socialist German Workers' Party.
Assassination is always risky because the replacement
might turn out to be as bad or worse than the tyrant killed. Lenin
was replaced by Stalin, who shares with Lenin one of the worst records
for mass slaughter in the socialist Wholecaust.
A similar problem became evident after the National
Socialist German Workers' Party (and its leader) was obliterated
through the efforts of its earlier ally, the Union of Soviet
Socialist Repubics (and others). Soviet Socialists went on to kill
more than twice as many people as had been killed by German National
Socialists.
The USA had assisted Soviet Socialists in defeating
German Socialists, and then watched as Soviet Socialists set new
and more horrid records for genocide.
Mao was still alive after WWII, and he and his fellow
socialists went on to kill more than twice as many people as had
been killed by German National Socialists.
Perhaps a reason that assassination is rare is because
civilians fear that their death-deserving rulers will be replaced
by a twin or worse.
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Vladimir Lenin returned
to Russia through Germany in April 1917. After his
return, he and his supporters used the slogan "All Power
to the Soviets!" It referred to creating totalitarian
military socialism by transferring current state power from
the Provisional Socialist Government to the workers' and
soldiers' councils known as "Soviets." The soldiers' councils
sometimes behaved as independent socialist militia groups similar
to the German Freikorps.
Lenin adopted military
socialism and used the Military Revolutionary Committee
(and used soldiers' councils or "soviets") to increase his
power.
In September 1917, General
Lavr Kornilov, the recently appointed Commander-in-Chief
of the Russian army, denounced Lenin and his 'German
spies,' and declared that they should be hanged. He was dismissed
from office by Alexander Kerensky.
Lenin blocked the elected
All Russian Constituent Assembly (Vserossiyskoye
Uchreditelnoye Sobranie) from where it convened at Tauride
Palace.
On 25 October 1917,
Lenin's group initiated a military coup and the overthrow
(known as the October Revolution) of the Provisional Government
via the Petrograd Soviet and the Military Revolutionary Committee.
The overthrow coincided with the convocation of the Second Congress
of Workers' and Soldiers' Soviets.
On October 26, Lenin
closed any newspaper that criticized him (For an account
see Nikolai Sukhanov. The Russian Revolution, 1917, Oxford
University Press, 1955, pp.649-650).
The Socialist Revolutionary
leadership increasingly viewed Lenin’s government
as a German proxy, and moreso after the signing of the peace
Treaty of Brest-Litovsk by Lenin’s government on March
3, 1918.
Lenin supported imperialism.
In the late 18th century, the newly independent Second
Polish Republic began securing its eastern territories annexed
by Russia in the partitions of Poland. That was part of the Soviet
socialist excuse for the Polish-Soviet War in 1919. With the
socialist revolution in Germany, Lenin viewed that as the perfect
time and place to "probe Europe with the bayonets" of the Soviet
socialist army. Lenin saw Poland as the bridge that Soviet Socialists
would have to cross in order to link up with supporters in Germany's
socialist revolution, and to abet other socialist movements in Western
Europe. However the Polish-Soviet War did not go as desired by Lenin
and it delayed his plans. Lenin's imperialistic plans were revived
by his cohort and successor Stalin in cooperation with the leader
of the National Socialist German Workers Party. In 1939, they
joined as allies to invade Poland in a pact to divide up Europe. WWII
spread. It led to the socialist Wholecaust.
Wikipedia is announcing more discoveries by the historian
Dr. Rex Curry about the Soviet socialist state's swastika. Although
it was an ancient symbol, it was used by socialists in modern times
as S-symbolism for "socialism." Dr. Curry's work is probably
the most referenced historical research on Wikipedia. http://rexcurry.net/ussr-socialist-swastika-cccp-sssr.html
The designer of that banknote was an ethnic Latvian
Rihards Zariņš (he spelled his name: Zarriņš or Richarda Zarrina;
June 27, 1869 – April 21, 1939). He studied at the School of Kurzeme
Knighthood in Griva and elsewhere in Latvia, St. Petersburg, and then
in western Europe in Berlin, Munich, and Vienna. he became employed by
the Russian Imperial Printing Office in St. Petersburg, where he worked
from 1899 to 1919, acting from 1905 on as technical director of
the Soviet Socialist State printing house, where the banknotes were
printed. Later he designed the first postage stamps of the Soviet
Socialist State.
In 1919 he returned to Latvia and directed the Government
Printing House (1919-1933) and became a Professor serving as head
of the graphic arts workshop at the Latvian Academy of Arts (1921-1938).
He created designs of paper money, postage stamps, certificates
and more. He enjoyed the socialist symbolism of the swastika and
he used it frequently, as in the banknote mentioned.
Latvia also used swastikas on their war planes and the swastika
evolved to resemble the same swastika style of Soviet Socialist and German
Socialism (under the National Socialist German Workers' Party). It is
not clear if there was a relationship to Zarins' work. However, the earlier
swastikas on Latvian planes used the Z-direction swastika, consistent with
Zarins' signature on his art, and the later Lativan planes used the the
S-direction swastika, consistent with Zarin's work under Soviet Socialism.
http://rexcurry.net/fotw-flags-of-the-world-vexillology.html
Among Zarins' works of applied art are the design of the Latvian
coat of arms, as well as several designs for bank notes issued by the
Printing Office, and several coins of the Latvian lats.
It is sad to note that Zarins died in 1939, the same year
that the National Socialist German Workers' Party joined with the Union
of Soviet Socialist Republics as allies in a pact to divide up Europe,
spreading World War II, and the socialist Wholecaust (of which the Holocaust
was a part): 62 million slaughtered under the Union of Soviet Socialist
Republics; 49 million under the Peoples' Republic of China; 21 million
under the National Socialist German Workers' Party.
In 1940, Latvia was incorporated into the USSR and Zarins'
lats were replaced by the Soviet ruble.
The Soviet socialist state during the time of its swastika
was known as the "PCOCP" which, with slight alteration, became
simply "CCCP" (USSR or Union of Soviet Socialist Republics). Transliterated
it is known also as the R.S.F.S.R., the Russian Soviet Federative
Socialist Republic (aka Russian Soviet Federated Socialist Republic)
(Росси́йская Сове́тская Федерати́вная Социалисти́ческая Респу́блика,
РСФСР).
It is relevant to note that the Soviet socialist state's
abbreviations have the pattern of double letters in PP, CC and
SS. Hence, the double S letters of the Soviet socialist state's
swastika stand for "Soviet Socialist" (the corresponding letters
in RSFSR).
The RSFSR began in 1917 and was the
largest and most populous of the fifteen former republics
of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, which became known
as the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics in December 1922.
The Russian SFSR became the modern day Russia after the collapse
of the USSR, officially dissolved on December 31, 1991.
After the proclamation of the Republic of Latvia in 1918,
a large variety of different currencies were in circulation including
ostrubles and ostmarks (east rubles, east marks), German reichsmarks,
the so-called Tsar rubles and kopecks, and the so-called Money of Duma.
On December 11, 1918, the Minister of Finance set official
exchange rates for the currencies in circulation, thus recognizing three
foreign currencies as legal tender including Germany and the Union
of Soviet Socialist Republics.
On March 22, 1919, the Provisional Government of Latvia authorized
the Minister of Finance to issue the first money notes of the Republic
of Latvia - Treasury notes; they were named Latvian rubles and Latvian
kopecks, named after the money in circulation under Soviet Socialism.
Five Latvian artists designed the money, including Rihards Zarins, who
had designed the soviet socialist swastika rubles under the Soviet Socialism
(the Russian Soviet Federated Socialist Republic). Issues of Treasury
notes marked the beginnings of an independent Latvian monetary system
although Russian and German currencies continued as legal tender in Latvia.
In order to impose socialism, control the economy, and inflate
(counterfeit) money, the Constitutional Assembly adopted the law to
socialize money (as well as other things) and imposed the Bank of Latvia
on September 7, 1922. The power to issue currency was seized and turned
into a socialist monopoly (along with many other things) and vested with
the Bank of Latvia. On November 2, 1922, the Bank of Latvia issued the
first provisional banknotes - 500-ruble notes with an overprint.
In 1923, 100-lats banknotes were issued. The graphical design
of the note was worked out by artists Rihards Zarins and Karlis Krauze.
The Ministry of Finance issued State Treasury notes in denominations
of 5, 10 and 20 lats. These notes were printed at the State Securities
Printing House. The authors of the graphical designs of these notes
were Rihards Zarins, Karlis Krauze and Harijs Gricevics.
Coins were issued in denominations of 1, 2 5, 10, 20 and 50
santims, and 1, 2 and 5 lats. The designs of the coins were created
by three artists: Rihards Zarins (santims coins of the 1923 issue and
5-lats coins), Janis Roberts Tilbergs (1- and 2-lats coins) and Ludolfs
Liberts (santims coins, the 1937 issue).
It is sad to note that Zarins died in 1939, the same year
that the National Socialist German Workers' Party joined with the
Union of Soviet Socialist Republics as allies in a pact to divide up
Europe, spreading World War II, and the socialist Wholecaust (of which
the Holocaust was a part): 62 million slaughtered under the Union of
Soviet Socialist Republics; 49 million under the Peoples' Republic of
China; 21 million under the National Socialist German Workers' Party.
In 1940, Latvia was incorporated into the USSR (Zarins' previous
employer) and Zarins' lats were replaced by the Soviet ruble. Latvia
was occupied by the Soviet Socialist Army on June 17, 1940, and on August
5 Latvia was incorporated into the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.
Beginning with October 10, 1940, the Latvia Republican Office of the State
Bank of the USSR, which was a constituent part in the centralized Soviet
socialist banking system, took over the the Bank of Latvia. The USSR's
monetary system was gradually re-introduced in Latvia. With the resolution
of the Popular Council of Commissars of the Latvian SSR (Soviet Socialist
Republic) passed on November 25, 1940, the exchange rate of the lats against
the USSR ruble was determined (1 lats = 1 ruble). That marked the beginning
of a simultaneous circulation of two currencies in Latvia, which lasted
for four months. Without prior notice, the lats was withdrawn from circulation
on March 25, 1941. The USSR ruble became the socialist monopoly legal tender
in Latvia.
In June 1941, German troops under the National Socialist German
Workers' Party advanced into Latvia. Right after the entrance of the
German socialist army, the Bank of Latvia resumed its activity; however,
the Bank did not regain its right to issue currency. The occupation
power implemented a policy that was tailored specially for occupied countries,
its aim being the suppression and robbing of these countries, in keeping
with the socialist dogma as previously imposed under Soviet Socialism.
The instrument to achieve this was the introduction of a special currency
- reichsmarks. German socialist Reichsmarks circulated alongside Soviet
Socialist rubles, the exchange rate being 10 rubles = 1 reichsmark.
After the Second World War, Latvia was again incorporated
into the Soviet financial system. The State Bank of the USSR (Gosbank)
both issued money and functioned as the State Treasury. The monetary
system of the Latvian Soviet Socialist Republic was entirely controlled
by the Gosbank.
In 1987, the Latvia Republican Office of the State Bank of
the USSR was renamed the Latvia Republican Bank of the State Bank of
the USSR; however, it did not become a central bank with the right to
issue the national currency.
On March 2, 1990, the Supreme Council of the Latvian SSR passed
the Resolution "On the Bank of Latvia". It stipulated that the Bank
of Latvia, a local central bank, was established (actually restored)
in the Latvian SSR. This was a central bank - an independent state bank,
which had the exclusive right to issue the national currency.
However, it was only after the declaration of independence
of the Republic of Latvia on May 4, 1990 and the collapse of Soviet
Socialism that in accordance with the Resolution of the Supreme Council
of the Republic of Latvia "On Reorganization of Banks in the Territory
of the Republic of Latvia" passed on September 3, 1991 the Bank of Latvia
was re-established as the socialist monopoly bank of Lavia with its own
socialist monopoly money.
The amazing discoveries in Dr. Curry's work have been discussed
by members of the group Flags Of The World, a well-known group
in the field of vexillology (the study of flags). Dr. Rex Curry's
historical discoveries have been recognized by members of Flags
Of The World Group (FOTW) and members of other vexillological groups.
The acknowledgment occurred when the president of the group conceded
defeat in a scholarly debate challenge about Dr. Curry's news-making
work. http://rexcurry.net/fotw-flags-of-the-world-vexillology.html
The Flags of the World web site contained an error. A
fan of RexCurry.net wrote in to point out an error on the Flags
of the World web site that has caused confusion among members of
the North American Vexillological Association. The error is at
http://www.crwflags.com/fotw/flags/lv%5Eair.html
That web page attempts to provide information about
Latvia's Airforce Flag and Aircraft Marking and shows a swastika
symbol (45 degrees to the horizontal and pointed clockwise) with
the headline "1918-1940." That seeming error caused some members
of the North American Vexillological Association to incorrectly believe
that the symbol was always 45 degrees to the horizontal (as if in
a diamond orientation). One NAVA member said "I checked Latvia's Air
Force markings 1918-1940 and found a red swastika on its point (as in
the National Socialist German Workers' Party) on white." A more searching
review of the links on that FOTW page shows that the swastika symbol
on Latvian planes originally was on its side (with horizontal orientation)
and not 45 degrees to the horizontal. It is unclear from FOTW, and the
links, when and why the change occurred in Latvia from 1918-1940.
A fan writes, "It is interesting to note that a lot of
the pictures available through the FOTW reference are only illustrations
and not photographs. One illustration did note the change in the
markings. Also interesting to note that the planes seem to be German,
mostly or exclusively? And that in 1920 they were being used against
the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. There was also a response
about Finland's use of the swastika. Can anyone provide more information
about when Finland first used the symbol on its planes, why, and where
the plane(s) came from? Was it a German source also?"
It is additional proof of Dr. Curry's work showing the
use of the swastika as S-shapes for "socialism" under Soviet Socialists,
German Socialists, and in Latvia and Finland, Great Britain, and that
they all followed after the United States of America. http://rexcurry.net/45th-infantry-division-swastika-sooner-soldiers.html
In Finland the swastika was used as the official national
marking of the Army between 1918 and 1944, and also of the Finnish
Air Force at that time. The swastika was also used by the Lotta Svärd
organisation. The blue swastika was the symbol used by the family
of Swedish Count Eric von Rosen, who donated the first plane to the
Finnish White Army during the Finnish Civil War. At that time, Rosen
was socialist in his philosophy and socialism was growing like a cancer
worldwide. Rosen's socialism grew too and, after the National Socialist
German Workers' Party was formed, Rosen altered his use of the symbol
to be the same as that of the National Socialist German Workers' Party
when Rosen became one of the founding members of Nationalsocialistiska
Blocket, a Swedish Socialist political party, that took advantage of the
overlapping S-shapes of the swastika. Rosen also gained a closer connection
to Germany when Hermann Göring married Carin von Kantzow, whose sister
was married to Rosen.
The National Socialist Bloc was formed in the end
of 1933. It was formed by the merger of Nationalsocialistiska Samlingspartiet,
Nationalsocialistiska Förbundet and local national socialist
units connected to the advocate Sven Hallström in Umeå.
Later Svensk Nationalsocialistisk Samling merged into NSB. The leader
of the party was the colonel Martin Ekström. The party maintained
several publications, Landet Fritt (Göteborg), Vår Kamp
(Göteborg), Vår Front (Umeå), Nasisten (Malmö)
and Riksposten. NSB differentiated itself from other Swedish national
socialist groups due to its liaisons with the Swedish upper class.
It is interesting to note that Finland had the choice to discontinue
the use of a swastika as a prominent national symbol at any point after
1933. It did not do so until forced to do so by the Allies after the
defeat of Germany. The fact that the Finnish swastika was slightly visually
different to the German swastika seems like a minor possible excuse. The
Finnish symbol was sufficiently similar to the German swastika to share
the same visual identity and thus association - in trademark terms it was
still 'passing itself off' as the German National Socialist symbol and was
still associated with socialism in Finland. The Finns made no attempt to
make it more different.
Was anyone who wanted to use the swastika as a prominent national
symbol after that time "choosing" to associate their nation with German
socialism, just as the adoption of the red star and hammer & sickle
by governments and militia post-war were choosing to associate themselves
with Soviet socialism and its atrocities?
The swastika in Finnish is "Hakaristi," which in a more literal
or phonetic translation is "hooked cross," similar to the German word
"Hakenkreuz." It was a type of cross. It became known as the "Von Rosen
Cross" and that term is still used sometimes today in Finland.
There was German involvement in the Finnish Civil War (January-May
1918). The Hakaristi was used by the German-allied Whites during that
Civil War.
The swastika also appeared in many Finnish medals
and decorations. In wartime medals of honor it was a visible element,
first drafted by Akseli Gallen-Kallela 1918–19. In Germany and
Austria at the same time period, the swastika was also being used by
socialist groups.
The hakaristi (Finnish) was seen often on aircraft and armour,
including Brewster Buffaloes, StuGs.
The hakenkreuz (German) decorated the planes of Herman Kunz (plane:
Albatross Jasta 7) and Paul Billik (Albatross Jasta 12) and Werner Voss
(Albatross). All three aircraft were roughly contemporaneous - Spring,
1917. Raoul Lufberry of the Layfayette Escadrille Americaine flew a swastika-marked
SPAD VII in roughly the same time period as well.
The Brewster Buffalo, or Brewster F2A, was an American fighter
plane that saw extensive service with both Allied and Axis air forces
during World War II. They were successful in combat, especially in Finland
where Brewster F2A fighters saw their longest and most intensive service
with the Ilmavoimat (Finnish Air Force), during 1940-48.
American soldiers used the swastika as their symbol early
in World War I, and up to 1941, against Germany. The symbol was used
by Americans in the French Escadrille Lafayette, by the 45th Infantry
Divison, on Boeing P-12 planes. http://rexcurry.net/45th-infantry-division-swastika-sooner-soldiers.html
Up to June 1941, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics was
as closely allied to the National Socialist German Workers Party as
the Finns were in 1939-40. After Barbarossa, the Soviet Socialist
leader (Stalin) judged it much better to maintain his agreement with
Finland: there was no advantage to Soviet Socialists acquiring
another active enemy north of Leningrad.
German Socialists received oil and food from Soviet Socialists.
The National Socialist German Worker' Party and the Union of Soviet
Socialist Republics were allies in 1939 when they jointly attacked Poland
as part of a larger pact (Molotov-Ribbentrop) to divide up Europe. The
Soviet Socialist Navy escorted a German raiding ship to the Pacific via
Siberia and the Bering Strait. Soviet Socialists opposed Lend-Lease
in the U.S. and preached collaboration in Nazi-Sozi occupied Europe.
In Barbarossa, Finland allowed tens of thousands of German troops
to deploy secretly in Finland, and that gave the USSR a casus belli.
Before Barbarossa, Finland had already agreed to join the German Socialist
attack. German troops were deploying in Finland. Soviet Socialists
pre-emptively attacked before any attack was made from Finnish territory,
but the Axis/Finnish attack was coming regardless. Stalin had no choice
about acquiring another active enemy north of Leningrad.
By 1944, the 1940 settlement was a dead letter. It no longer
influenced either country as such; that is, the Finns and Soviets both
agreed to the settlement of 1944 on the basis of the facts of battle
at the time, not whether the new settlement matched the 1940 settlement.
In conclusion, it is interesting to note that Finland used the
hakaristi as a symbol when Germany was allied with a country attacking
Finland, and blocked aid to Finland. Finland continued to use the symbol
when Finland was a co-belligerant with Germany against the same country.
Finland continued to use the symbol when it was actively at war with
Germany
The switch from the hakaristi to the white/blue/white roundel
was officially dated to April 1, 1945 - slightly before the end of
the war but effectively post-war so far as the Finns were concerned
(though the official peace treaty didn't follow until February, 1947).
The change was at the insistance of the the Allied Control Commission
(it was not happy with the Finnish hakaristi symbol).
The NAVA members who referenced the FOTW web page provided
more support for Dr. Curry's work showing that the swastika was
used to represent overlapping "S" letters for "socialism" under the
National Socialist German Workers' Party and in the Soviet Socialist
State. http://rexcurry.net/book1a1contents-swastika.html
Notice how the Socialist Repubics
utilized various languages (including German at the top)
in an effort to spread sickly socialism worldwide, and consistent
with its use of alphabetic "S" symbolism in its swastika symbol.
More evidence proves the work of
the historian Dr. Rex Curry in showing that the swastika
was used as alphabetic symbolism for "socialism" by both
the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and by the National Socialist
German Workers' Party, as shown in the images above and below
and at http://rexcurry.net/ussr-socialist-swastika-cccp-sssr.html
In 1917, socialism was imposed in
Russia when the former Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
(USSR) was formed after the Russian Revolution of 1917,
and the Russian Civil War of 1918-1920. The propaganda
machinary introduced a new symbol for the new government:
the swastika.
The Soviet Socialist Swastika shows
lettering around the swastika symbol and also shows the
swastika as two separate arms pointing clockwise, representing
separate "S" letters overlapping http://rexcurry.net/ussr-socialist-swastika1919-1920cav.jpg
Soviet socialist money openly used
English, German and other languages in an effort to spread
sickly socialism worldwide, consistent with its use of alphabetic
"S" symbolism in its swastika symbol. http://rexcurry.net/ussr-socialist-swastika1919-1920rubles250.jpg
On official badges, the Soviet
Swastika was yellow on a red background, mimicking the other
socialist symbol, the hammer and sickle (Russian: серп и молот,
"serp i molot" (serpent & mallet?)), a symbol that also developed
in the Russian Soviet Federated Socialist Republic (RSFSR). Eventually,
the national flag mimicked the same color schemes and symbols.
The swastika was even displayed with the hammer and sickle http://rexcurry.net/swastika4.gif
as shown here http://rexcurry.net/ussr-socialist-swastika-may-day.jpg
Germany's socialist swastika had the same meaning
as the earlier Soviet Swastika and the Hammer and Sickle: The German
and Soviet swastikas were two "S" letters that represented socialists
joining together; the hammer and sickle represented socialists joining
together, particularly workers joining with peasants, or factory
workers joining with agricultural workers.
The German term for "swastika" is "Hakenkreuz" ("hooked
cross") because the symbol represented two separate pieces crossed
(two "S" shaped pieces).
In Mein Kampf, the German socialist leader referred
to the socialist swastika and the flag: "In red we see the social
idea of the movement, in white the nationalistic idea, in the swastika
the mission of the struggle for the victory of the Aryan man, and,
by the same token, the victory of the idea of creative work..." (pg.
496-497). In German the swastika reference was: "im Hakenkreuz die Mission
des Kampfes für den Sieg des arischen Menschen und zugleich
mit ihm auch den Sieg des Gedankens der schaffenden Arbeit,"
In his own words, Hitler stated that the swastika
referred to work (labor) and mimicked the Soviet's "new" swastika
replacement, the Hammer and Sickle (two tools of workers). Hitler
states that the Hakenkreuz (hooked cross) represents two crossed
"S" shapes known as "sieg" symbols. Those "S" letters were used for
"S" in other German socialist symbolism. He made overlapping use of
the word "victory" or "sieg" in German. The red color and the
"social idea of the movement" ties into socialism for which Hitler claimed
the National Socialist German Workers' Party was struggling for victory.
The so-called "swastika" represented two "S" letters for "socialism"
and is related to "Sieg Heil!" in the sense of the NSGWP's cry of "Hail
to the Victory of Socialism!" His use of the term
"arischen" mimicks the Soviet swastika and the Soviet hammer and sickle
in the effort to glorify workers (represented by their tools in the hammer
and sickle) as the new super soviet socialist men. http://rexcurry.net/george-bernard-shaw-superman-socialist-swastika-socialism.html
German socialists were heavily influenced by earlier
Soviet socialists, even in regard to concentration camps, purges,
and genocide.
In 1939, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
and the National Socialist German Workers’ Party joined
as allies to invade Poland in a Pact to divide up Europe, spreading
WWII. http://rexcurry.net/socialists.html
They USSR embraced the swastika symbol even
more then, and the hammer and sickle was displayed proudly next
to and in partnership with the socialist swastika.
The lettering around the socialist
swastika badge resembles "PCOCP" which, with slight alteration,
became simply "CCCP" (USSR). The lettering and the
swastika symbol refer to the R.S.F.S.R., the Russian Soviet Federative
Socialist Republic (aka Russian Soviet Federated Socialist Republic)
(Росси́йская Сове́тская Федерати́вная Социалисти́ческая Респу́блика,
РСФСР). The socialist swastika badge uses the pattern
of double letters in PP, CC and SS. Hence, the double S letters
of the soviet socialist swastika stand for "Soviet Socialist" (the
corresponding letters in RSFSR).
The RSFSR began in 1917 and was the
largest and most populous of the fifteen former republics
of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, which became the
Union of Soviet Socialist Republics in December 1922. The
Russian SFSR became the modern day Russia after the collapse of the
USSR, officially dissolved on December 31, 1991.
The USSR followed the lead of the USA
in beginning with a "federation" name and then changing
to a "Union" (a word that can be translated also as "United")
and even echoing the "U.S." initials. The USSR was influenced
by the socialist trend in the USA and by its internationally famous
socialists, including Edward Bellamy.
Through the work of socialists in the
USA, the USSR, and Germany respectively, the swastika
became a global symbol of socialism.
In 1939, the Union of Soviet Socialist
Republics joined as allies with the National Socialist German
Workers’ Party to invade Poland in a Pact to divide up Europe,
spreading WWII. It occurred under the notorious Molotov-Ribbentrop
Pact, which the Socialist Republics never renounced. Seven
million died in Poland. As a result of the War, Finland had its
Karelian Peninsula torn away by the Socialist Republics and 10
countries Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia, Poland, Czechoslovakia,
East Germany, Romania, Bulgaria, Hungary and Yugoslavia suffered
under the Socialist Republics for half a century. http://rexcurry.net/socialists.html
Three common abbreviations (USSR, SSSR,
CCCP) refer to a self-described socialist entity that used
the word "socialist" in its name, as did the NSDAP (National
Socialist German Workers' Party) which used the double "S" letters
of the Hakenkreuz - swastika. Russian socialists used symbolism
and the word "socialist" in their group's name, before the German
socialists and it served as an example. http://rexcurry.net/bookchapter4a1c.html
CCCP led to the derisive joke that
it signified the "coalition of collectivist crusaders for
the proletariat." It also inspired the old gag
of someone asking which "C" stood for "Communist." Of
course, the abbreviation did not refer to communism, it
referred to socialism, as did the abbreviation and symbol for
the National Socialist German Workers' Party. http://rexcurry.net/bookpic-socialism-cccp-ussr.gif
Translated:
RSFSR was: Russian Soviet Federated
Socialist Republic
USSR was: Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
Transliterated:
РСФСР was: Rossi?yskaya Sovetskikh
Federati?vnaya (or Soyuz) Sotsialisticheskikh Respublika
(RSFSR).
CCCP was: Soyuz Sovetskikh Sotsialisticheskikh
Respublik (SSSR).
CCCP is actually cyrillic. In Latin
letters it would be SSSR: Soyuz Sovetskikh Sotsialisticheskikh
Respublik (Soviet United/Federated Socialistic Republic).
Untransliterated it was CCCP, and transliterated it was SSSR.
In Russian:
РСФСР was Росси́йская Сове́тская
Федерати́вная Социалисти́ческая Респу́блика.
CCCP was Сою́з Сове́тских
Социалисти́ческих Респу́блик.
Another explanation:
РСФСР was Росси́йская Сове́тская
Федерати́вная Социалисти́ческая Респу́блика.
Soviet
Socialist
Republic / Republics
CCCP was Сою́з Сове́тских
Социалисти́ческих Респу́блик.
Translation of the left side:
ORDER
to troops of South-Eastern front
# 213
City of Saratov
<date> November 1919
A shoulder patch is approved for Kalmyk units,
according to the attached drawing and description.
The right to wear this patch is given to officers
and Red Army privates of existing Kalmyk units, as well as the ones being
raised, according to order of the Revolutionary Military Council of the
Republic, this year, # 11<6>.
(There follow the signatures of the front commander, the Member of
the Revolutionary Military Council (the commissar) and chief of staff.
The right side gives a description and picture.
*****************************
Свастика в Красной армии
Кавалерия, Юго-Восточного фронт 1919-20
г.г.:
Swastika in the Red Army
Cavalry South-Eastern Front 1919-20
g.g.:
"according to the communication V.O.
Of daynesa, in the central Public Archive of the Soviet Army
is an application to the order to the forces of southeastern
Front № 213 in 1918, where is described new emblem for the personnel:
"the rhomb of yshchkhyy of centimeters from the red cloth. In
the upper angle pentagonal star, in the center - venok, in middle
of which "LYUNGTN" with the inscription "R.S.F.S.R.". Stellar diameter
15 mm, Viennese 6 cm, size OF "LYUNGTN" - 27 mm, letters - 6 mm. sign
for the command and administrative personnel are embroidered by gold
and silver, also, for the Red Army men stereotyped. Star, "LYUNGTN"
and tape Viennese are embroidered by gold (for the Red Army men by
yellow paint), venok itself and inscription - by silver (for the Red
Army men - by white paint)." The mysterious abbreviation OF "LYUNGTN"
designated the here being untwisted swastika.
Novel Of bagdasarov "The swastika:
the sacred symbol." (it sent Aleksandr)
"По сообщению
В.О. Дайнеса, в Центральном государственном архиве Советской
Армии имеется приложение к приказу войскам Юго-Восточного
фронта № 213 за 1918 г., где описана новая эмблема для личного состава:
"Ромб 15х11 сантиметров из красного сукна. В верхнем углу пятиконечная
звезда, в центре - венок, в середине которого "ЛЮНГТН" с надписью
"Р.С.Ф.С.Р.". Диаметр звезды 15 мм, венка 6 см, размер "ЛЮНГТН"
- 27 мм, букв - 6 мм. Знак для командного и административного состава
вышит золотом и серебром и для красноармейцев трафаретный. Звезда,
"ЛЮНГТН" и лента венка вышиты золотом (для красноармейцев жёлтой
краской), самый венок и надпись - серебром (для красноармейцев - белой
краской)." Загадочной аббревиатурой "ЛЮНГТН" обозначена здесь раскручивающаяся
свастика.
Роман Багдасаров
"Свастика: священный символ." (прислал Александр)
1918 - 1919, when Vasiliy Ivanovich Shorin
(Colonel, punished in the 30's) commanded the Red Army at
the southeastern Front
1918 - 1919 годах, когда Красной
Армией на Юго-восточном фронте командовал Василий Иванович
Шорин (полковник, репрессированный в 30-е годы)
Swastika in the army OF USA 45-4
infantry division:
The soldiers of 45-1 infantry division
OF THE USA bore on the left sleeve the symbol of yellow on
the red rhomb:
Soviet Socialist Swastikas are scary reminders of similar symbolism
under the National Socialist German Workers Party. It
is a scary reminder of tattooing that was forced upon people persecuted
in Germany. It is related swastika fetishism,
and the "Socialist Slavery" symbolized by the overlapping S-letters
of the swastika under the NSDAP. See adults-only graphic images at http://rexcurry.net/swastika-sex-girls-nudity-porn-xxx.html
edward bellamy 
francis bellamy 
rex curry 
libertarian 
pledge of allegiance 
swastika