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# This sleeve badge with a "swastika" was worn by commanders of the Kalmyk units of the Red Army's South-Eastern Front in 1918-20
- URL: https://theparnassian.com/en/etot-narukavnyi-znak-so-svastikoi-nosili-komandiry-kalmytskikh-formirovanii-iugo-vostochnogo-fronta-krasnoi-armii-v-1918-20/
- Published: 2016-12-23T18:37:54.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-01T05:46:22.000Z
- Author: Alexandr Radayev
- Tags: NB!, Faith, The East, Ethnography

This sleeve badge with a "swastika" was worn by commanders of the Kalmyk units of the Red Army's South-Eastern Front in 1918-20\. Among Buddhists the symbol is called «lungtn, lungta», "whirlwind, vital energy"