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The white-red-white flag [a] is a historical flag used by the Belarusian Democratic Republic in 1918 before Western Belarus was occupied by the Second Polish Republic and Eastern Belarus was occupied by the Bolsheviks (two years later becoming the Belarusian SSR).
White-red-white flag Belarusian Democratic Republic: Proportions: 1:2 1919–1925: Belarusian Democratic Republic (in exile) White with a red horizontal band of red, the central red stripe being bordered by a thin black stripes. In use besides the regular white-red-white flag. Black stripes are believed to symbolize mourning. 1918–1919
The national flag of Belarus is an unequal red-green bicolour with a red-on-white ornament pattern placed at the hoist (staff) 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 in a May 1995 referendum.
Several flags used by government officials and agencies were based on the national flag. Despite being replaced, the former flag of Belarus is used by those who oppose the current Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko. [2] The former flag consisted of a white background with a red horizontal stripe in the middle.
The Belarusian People's Republic [2] [3] [4] (BNR; Belarusian: Беларуская Народная Рэспубліка, romanized: Biełaruskaja Narodnaja Respublika, БНР), also known as the Belarusian Democratic Republic, was a state proclaimed by the Council of the Belarusian Democratic Republic in its Second Constituent Charter on 9 March 1918 during World War I.
The name was also assigned to various territories, often quite distant from that of present Belarus. [clarification needed] According to Alfred Nicolas Rambaud: The name of White (Lithuanian: Balta) Russia is given to the provinces conquered from the 13th to the 14th century by the Grand Dukes of Lithuania.
Flag of Belarus See also: List of Belarusian flags: Belarus's flag was officially adopted on 10 February 2012. The dominant red-green bicolour was used on its flag when it was a republic within the former Soviet Union. The woven fabric ornament on the left uses traditional Belarusian red and white colours.
In response to the 2020–2021 Belarusian protests, the official Belarusian authorities considered to equate the white-red-white flag and slogan "Long Live Belarus!" with Nazi symbolism. [44] However, the Belarusians expressed their disagreement to the House of Representatives of the National Assembly of the Republic of Belarus that the white ...