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Slavic Native Faith

A variant of the swastika, the non-traditional eight-armed kolovrat (Russian: коловрат, literally ' spinning wheel '), is the most commonly used religious symbol within neopagan Slavic Native Faith (a.k.a. Rodnovery).

In the early 1990s, the former dissident and one of the founders of Russian neo-paganism Alexey Dobrovolsky first gave the name "kolovrat" to a four-beam swastika, identical to the Nazi symbol, and later transferred this name to an eight-beam rectangular swastika. According to the historian and religious scholar Roman Shizhensky, Dobrovolsky took the idea of the swastika from the work "The Chronicle of Oera Linda " by the Nazi ideologist Herman Wirth, the first head of the Ahnenerbe.

Aleksey Dobrovolsky introduced the eight-beam "kolovrat" as a symbol of "resurgent paganism." He considered this version of the Kolovrat a pagan sign of the sun and, in 1996, declared it a symbol of the uncompromising "national liberation struggle" against the " Zhyd yoke". According to Dobrovolsky, the meaning of the "kolovrat" completely coincides with the meaning of the Nazi swastika.