Flag Of Belarus Opposition
Flag belarusi is a red and green flag with a white and red ornament pattern placed at the staff hoist end the current design was introduced in 2012 by the state committee for standardisation of the republic of belarus and is adapted from a design approved.
Flag of belarus opposition. Opposition groups have been long petitioning to get wrw officially recognized as the flag of belarus and legalized but the government s position remains rock solid. The flag s designer is believed to be architect and engineer klawdziy duzh dushewski 1891 1959 although this has never been a. When belarus gained independence following the soviet union s collapse in 1991 it adopted a version of its historic flag which it used until. Today the white red white flag is used in opposition to the current government.
The flag of belarus belarusian. Today most of the organisations of the belarusian diaspora and belarusian opposition refuse to use the official red green flag and represent their country with white red white flag. The red and white colors of the opposition adopted from belarus s short lived bid for democratic independence more than a century ago are flying high amid a wave of anger over an election. A white flag with a red stripe down the middle was the official flag of belarus for several years historically speaking.
The flag a red horizontal strip between two white ones has long been seen as the symbol of the nationalist opposition to lukashenko. In late of 1990s and 2000s as lukashenka s political regime consolidated its power the white red white flag became more than a banned national symbol but also a. Flag date use description 1995 2012. It looks like belarusians will live under two flags for many years to come.
While the flag s colors have a long lineage in belarus the opposition s white red white tricolor was first used as a national flag by the short lived belarusian people s republic in 1918 1919. Flag waving supporters of belarusian opposition leader sviatlana tsikhanouskaya turn out to greet her in warsaw poland wednesday sept. Said that tikhanovskaya and other opposition leaders promoted both flags in the lead. State flag and civil ensign.
All flags of the constituent republics of the soviet union did not bear the hammer and sickle on their reverse. At the turn of the 19th 20th century a cloth with this pattern was used among the first belarusian nationalist circles and associations.