Ok, so Finland is 100 years old this year so we are celebrating it in all kinds of ways. One of those methods is printing a limited edition of coins, but things got a bit weird.
This link is in Finnish but you can see the coins there and I am going to translate the relevant bits:
https://www.suomenrahapaja.fi/fin/itsenaisyyden-vuosikymmenet-1917-1939-proof-/20711/dp?openGroup=261This is the coin that celebrates the civil war:
The image has prisoners of war standing in front of a mass grave and they are about to be executed after a gangaroo court. There is a body lying on the ground in front of them but it is kinda hard to see.
The other coins are here and on the top left you see a coin with an image of a man carrying a dead Syrian child whose body washed ashore...
...Which is supposed to represent global justice.
I don't know how many people had to fuck up to make this mess but the artist behind the coins is certainly happy about this and seems to take an "all publicity is good publicity" view. They did also seem happy that for the first time his artwork has become famous.
Meanwhile the politicians who approved the coins are publicly condemning them as tasteless as if they were completely without blame.
I mean, the civil war was an important incident and should be included but they got pretty close to choosing the worst possible picture about it... (I mean, there is a famous picture about a prison where the Reds had massacred White POWs which literally has streams of blood flowing out of the jailcells. Also pictures of mass graves are from the era. But still, finding a less offensive picture is so easy that I can't believe this was an accident.)