Flags of Chechnya and Belarus
Posted Wednesday, October 15th, 2008 at 07:02 by Whiteruthenian
The first row - flags from periods of "national awakening".
The second row - flags from periods of "stability" and "tight integration with Russia".
The second row - flags from periods of "stability" and "tight integration with Russia".
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The traditional red and white flag from Belarus' is very bright and positive. The adopted by the current gouvernment reflects its mind: dull and disharmonic.Posted Wednesday, October 15th, 2008 at 16:00 by Dvx 
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The bottom flags look more artistic. Are those Arabic symbols on the right-hand flag?Posted Thursday, October 16th, 2008 at 16:02 by orieleye
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The first flags look similar to caucasian flags.
Posted Thursday, October 16th, 2008 at 18:55 by Kurzeme
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to Dux: As you know it is a bit changed flag of the BSSR. It was adopted in 1951, before that the BSSR's flag was simply red. It was adopted paltry because in the UN where the USSR was represented by three delegations (of the USSR itself, of BSSR and of Ukrainian SSR) the three reed flags seemed a little bit monotonous.
I can recall a cartoon which displayed the red-and-green flag and Stalin who was busy deciding by some kind of lot what Soviet republik would be given that flag. And his words: "And this flag will be given to the repuuuublik... Wow! To Belarus!"
to orieleye: Gosh no! What would Arabic symbols have to do with Belarus? It is a kind of national ornament.Posted Saturday, October 18th, 2008 at 05:51 by Whiteruthenian
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How comes there are such similarities between the flags of Chechnya and Belarus?Posted Sunday, October 19th, 2008 at 14:40 by Aramis
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I read a hypothesis that the idea of white-red-and-white colours was brought to Caucasus by participants of the uprising of 1864 from Belarus who were sent there for taking part in the insurgency by tsarism. But nobody can even be sure that the insurgents used that flag. So I tend to believe that it is just a mystical occasional coincidence.
Posted Monday, October 20th, 2008 at 06:18 by Whiteruthenian
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