Kolovrat

A grainy picture of a beach with a sign that reads 'Caution: Whites only! Strong current.' A Kolovrat has been edited over the image.

The Kolovrat is an eight-sided sun wheel design used by Slavic neo-Nazis and sometimes more broadly by Eastern European Nazis. Under traditional National Socialism, Slavic people were often not considered "Aryan". However, as neo-Nazism was branded as a response to Soviet control in Europe after the Second World War, Nazis includes more European ethnic backgrounds into their movement.

The Kolovrat's origins are disputed, but like the Swastika, it sometimes represents the sun. However, it does not have popular uses outside of Nazism, especially not in Canada.

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