Talk:Tokugawa Kaiten Meikyū - Ōoku/@comment-29726162-20190401173244/@comment-34041338-20190402015849

The earliest Swastika to be found was in Ukraine, home to the Proto-Indo-Europeans that, you guessed it, would later cover all of Eurasia including India. (Though technically the swastika in question was from 15000 BC, so early it would have been the Vinca culture but let's not get too technical.) While it certainly was never as popular in Europe as it was in India and other Buddhist cultures it was a common cultural iconin all areas the Proto-Indo-Europeans spread to until it became associated with the Nazi party.

So, if anything, the Slavs had it first.