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US town called 'Swastika' votes in favour of retaining its name
short by Ankush Verma / on Friday, 25 September, 2020
A town in US' New York has voted to retain the name 'Swastika', stating it was named after the Sanskrit word meaning "well-being" and not after the symbol associated with Nazis. Swastika was named by the town's original settlers in the 1800s, officials said. "For the uneducated that immediately assume it's connected to Germans and Hitler, it's not," officials added.