swastikam

Now days the word swastika is very debating the people of east and the people of east and the people of the west. The word swastika is comes form the Sanskrit word savastika. The word savastika means “good to be suffix”. Many cultures of many different countries used this sign; like Japan, china, India etc. the sing swastika was used to represent life, sun, power, strength and good luck in many culture of the eastern people. So the people of eastern part thought this is the sing of piece. But in the year of 1920 Adolf Hitler decided that the Nazi party needed their own flag. For this flag Hitler used the sing of swastika. On August 7^th 1920 at the Slazburg Congress, this flag become the official emblem of the Nazi party. For this reason people of the western countries thought the sing of swastika is the symbol of hate, anti-Semitism, violence, death and murder.

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