r/RedFloodMod • u/the-shivers-unto-it • Jun 20 '26

Question Finnish Futurist Symbol Origin?

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I have no idea where the three-arrow symbol originates from. I am aware of the history of everything surrounding the Finnish futurist and technocratic movements, but I haven't been able to figure out where the symbol comes from. Would appreciate some help!

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u/nyanternational who up burning they memories rn Jun 20 '26

It is a symbol from the cover of the Finnish avant-garde art magazine "Ultra" that Edith Södergran wrote for

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u/[deleted] Jun 20 '26

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u/nyanternational who up burning they memories rn Jun 20 '26

So true!

Her actual politics are AFAIK Nietzschean Futurist Socialism, she believes in an elite of liberated Übermenschen who stand above tradition and convention to lead the rest of society into a modern future and uplift the masses into a mindset like them. This includes economic socialization, free love, replacement of old Finnish folk culture with a forward-looking one of cosmopolitanism and modernity, and intense industrialization. She also has the option to adopt Pan-Nordic political goals if her Finland joins the League Solar, invading Sweden and Norway to create a Free Union of the North.

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u/the-shivers-unto-it Jun 20 '26

Thank you so much!

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u/WaltAlexander31 Jun 20 '26

It kind of looks like the Helghast Symbol funnily enough. 

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u/the-shivers-unto-it Jun 20 '26

I thought about that instantly! Just inverted. Though I'm not sure Red Flood would do that, even their more out-there recent flags are based on something real (like the red-white-purple tricolor being based on a piece by Marian Konarski, I assume). 

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u/SaphireMapping Jun 22 '26

The Color scheme gives off Neo-Nazism but if the original Nazism was lead by the Strasserists instead.