Talk:Latvian Air Force

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There seem to be some possible misleading "fake news" issues here. I'm not sure the Latvian Air Force ever decorated its own aircraft with swastikas. The information that goes with the "Latvian IVL A.22 Hansa" photo is all in Finnish, and the photo itself seems to have originated in Finland. From what I understand of Finnish, the picture has actually been taken in Finland, to characterize and illustrate a type of aircraft used by the Latvians. The Finns had the habit of adorning aircraft with swastikas long before Hitler came along and began using that symbol. In other words, uninformed people might mistakenly reach the conclusion that Latvians were national socialists when in fact they were not. Mysterious and unfortunate that this particular photo, apparently taken in Finland, was chosen to adorn a photo pertaining to Latvia. This smells of either ignorance or - even more likely - of the work of trolls to me. Of the kind of trolls who do not wish Latvia well. High time to replace the photo with an authentic Latvian one, or with a generic photo of the IVL A.22 Hansa minus the swastika. Wikipedia being used for disinformation as this would appear - not good. Not good at all.
Sean Maleter (talk) 13:34, 25 June 2018 (UTC)
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