Sunday, September 17, 2006

Find the swastika!

No, this isn't some sort of half-assed neo-Nazi posting. MeTheSheeple is just a nerd with too much time on his hands.

This International Herald-Tribune article attempts to explore the clouded history of a Nazi-era swastika made with planted trees in Kyrgystan:
This is the so-called Eki Naryn swastika, a man-made arrangement of trees near the edge of the Himalayas. It is at least 60 years old, according to the region's forestry service, and roughly 600 feet across.

Legend has it that German prisoners of war, pressed into forestry duty after World War II, duped their Soviet guards and planted rows of seedlings in the shape of the emblem Hitler had chosen as his own.

More than 20 years later, the trees rose tall enough to be visible from the village beneath. Only then did the swastika appear, a time-delayed act of defiance by vanquished soldiers marooned in a corner of Stalin's Soviet Union.
MeTheSheepl got a little curious and started looking for it.

IndexMundi, whatever the hell that is, gives the location of this town. Wikimapia offers another way to find the town. 600 feet across should be pretty darned visible (note the scale at the bottom). Can you find the swastika?

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