White-Red-White Flag Has Already Won

• 4.03.2021, 9:25

Experts have explained why.

Since the protests began, Lukashenka has often talked about the white-red-white flag and associated it with the period of Nazi occupation. Radio Svaboda, along with experts, has sorted out why this is wrong.

The flag cannot be responsible for who used it and when. The white-red-white flag differs not much from the flags of many European countries that survived the German occupation.

The white-red-white flag was glorified in the works of partisan Yanka Bryl and frontman Maksim Tank.

No one was "spilling blood" under the red-green flag at the fronts of World War II. It was approved by Stalin in 1951. The author of the sketch of the BSSR flag was drawing portraits of Hitler during the occupation.

During the Soviet time any mention and depiction of the white-red-white flag was forbidden.

Ales Pushkin, a student of the Academy of Arts, was the first to raise the flag in public space - in 1989, while celebrating the anniversary of the BPR.

The "referendum" of 1995 on the return of the red-green flag cannot be considered legitimate.

Now hundreds of thousands of Belarusians are raising the white-red-white flag, daring and taking risks.

The final maturation of the Belarusian nation is inextricably bound up with the white-red-white flag.