Why Do All SLAVIC Countries Have Similar Flags?

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  • Опубликовано: 3 ноя 2024

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  • @General.Knowledge
    @General.Knowledge  Год назад +456

    YES I KNOW *TRANSNISTRIA IS IN MOLDOVA* AND NOT ROMANIA, my mistake!
    Also, obviously not *all* Slavic countries use the pan-slavic colors, as is pointed out in the video - I apologize if the title seemed misleading in that aspect.

    • @franzo.one.franzo
      @franzo.one.franzo Год назад +8

      hi! can you make a video about the languages of italy? thanks in advance!

    • @timixalan5755
      @timixalan5755 Год назад +15

      Another ethnicity would be the sorbs or Sorben in eastern Germany, who also use the pan slavic colors

    • @edwartvonfectonia4362
      @edwartvonfectonia4362 Год назад +2

      Yeah, I think you mixed up with Transylvania. Which I immediately thought about when looked at the word Transnistria. :D

    • @ScotZoutdoorAdventures
      @ScotZoutdoorAdventures Год назад +3

      We wont juge u we all love your videos even if u make mistakes:)

    • @Dryish
      @Dryish Год назад +4

      Love your flag videos, but since this is the second fairly big factual error in as many flag videos (UAE flag being the first), I think some quality control could go a long way. I hope you aren't in a bad enough rush and find the time to go over the recordings! :)

  • @pitlordmike6127
    @pitlordmike6127 Год назад +865

    I think Slav comes from the word Slovo. In Polish “Slavs” is słowianie, which means “people of the word” or “people who know words”. By contrast Polish word for Germans is “Niemcy” which could’ve came from the word “niemy” which means “someone who doesn’t speak”

    • @hipnotycznaegosymulacja9569
      @hipnotycznaegosymulacja9569 Год назад

      👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍Russians are not Slavs, there are only 6% of Slavs in Russia,
      the rest are fino - ugers, tatars, caucasians, mongols, asians, etc.
      Russia - USSR created this lie for its own IMPERIAL purposes (that Russians are Slavs) to FALSE suck up to the Slavic nations in Eastern Europe, and then occupy, murder ☠☠☠☠, resettle to Siberia, rob, Russify, these countries under the guise of tz .
      "Slavic brotherhood".
      If you still think that the Russians are Slavs, then you have become a victim of hypocritical Russian perfidious, mean Russian propaganda.

    • @elazargoldmann2183
      @elazargoldmann2183 Год назад +1

      Ukrainians are not Slavs

    • @pitlordmike6127
      @pitlordmike6127 Год назад +6

      @@elazargoldmann2183 I didn’t mention ukrainians.

    • @ВашеДоверие
      @ВашеДоверие Год назад +150

      What if it came from word 'Slava', meaning glory? There are a lot of slavic names that have originated from the word 'slava', after all - Vladislav/Wladislaw, Dobroslav, Stanislav/Stanislaw, etc.

    • @TheDeathLowthus
      @TheDeathLowthus Год назад +44

      The word "slave" comes from the word sclavus and dates back to the Roman Empire, due to the high amount of slaves at that time being that Slavs

  • @michals1967
    @michals1967 Год назад +1233

    As you pointed out correctly, Bohemia's original flag was white-and-red. And when Czechoslovakia was created they added the blue triangle to represent Slovakia. But you missed here a fun fact that is worth telling. When the two countries split again in 1993, Czechia could not come back to their original white-and-red flag simply because in the meanwhile it had been stolen by Poland. And Poland's historical flag was actually red-white-red, but that one was in turn stolen by the Austrians.

    • @blugene1376
      @blugene1376 Год назад +211

      The first flag of Poland was a white eagle with a red background, the red white red you mention is the flag of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. both Czechia and Poland had used white and red in flags during history, but good thing that Czechia did not abandon the blue triangle as it would make it very confusing having the same flag as its neighbouring country and I do think that it makes the Czechian flag look unique

    • @David-kn4hb
      @David-kn4hb Год назад +51

      Flag of the Polish-Lithuanian commonwelth wasn’t stolen by Austria. Austrian flag is the second oldest flag in Europe

    • @bar88888
      @bar88888 Год назад +150

      Poland didn't stolen flag from Bohemia. That colors of flag come from colors of coat of Piast dynasty.
      Of course, the flag of Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth was red-white-red, but after the partition, and proclamation dutchy of Warsaw in 1807 white and red flag was adoptet. Czechia adoptet flag after proclamation of indenpendet in 1918.
      Austra aslo didn't stole Polish flag, becose actual flag of Austria is in use since 1230.

    • @General.Knowledge
      @General.Knowledge  Год назад +70

      Very fun fact! Thank you :)

    • @alh6255
      @alh6255 Год назад +1

      The Polish flag is more years old than the Polish state itself. These were the colors of the princes of the Piast dynasty, who founded the first dynasty of Polish kings - which means that the flag is at least 1100 years old (the Polish state was officially established in 966). Accusing Poles that they stole these colors from the Czechs is some kind of joke? Alternatively, you are some kind of insensitive troll.

  • @crystalbluepersuasion8193
    @crystalbluepersuasion8193 Год назад +91

    I am from Croatia and we were always taught that the colors represent the georaphical area where slavs live. White as in mountains of Ural, blue as in Baltic and Adriatic sea and the Red as brotherly blood that connects all us slavs.

    • @a.s.7882
      @a.s.7882 Год назад +8

      Near Baltic sea lives Balts (Lithuanians, Latvians), not slavs.

    • @crystalbluepersuasion8193
      @crystalbluepersuasion8193 Год назад +29

      @@a.s.7882There is Poland, Kaliningrad an Sankt Petersburgand also you have to think about the time the flag was designed it was all under Russian Empire, even Finlnd if I am not mistaken. Again its just something I was told and it made some sense and probably it was meant generally. Becouse between Urals and the Adriatic there are not only Slavs, you also have Hungarians, Romanians, Moldoves. I cant vouch that thats the true meaning it is a story.

    • @Vasily_Perov
      @Vasily_Perov Год назад +12

      wow, how beautiful, greeting from Russia

    • @Mindpxwer
      @Mindpxwer Год назад +9

      Privet iz rossii Привет из России

    • @a.s.7882
      @a.s.7882 Год назад +2

      @@crystalbluepersuasion8193 Kaliningrad oblast history goes back to the pagan tribes of ancient Prussians (balts), later in XIII century captured by Germans (teutonic order) .

  • @МихаилБогомолов-б5у

    Want to add some information about Peter the Great. In 1697-1698 Peter I visited Netherlands during the "Great Embassy" in order to look for some allies against Ottoman Empire. In Netherlands he tried to hide that he was the Russian tsar, because it would be bizarre that the ruler of the big country works at docks and helps Netherlands build ships. So yes, Russian future emperor worked as a builder of ships. There is even a small house in Netherlands, wherr Peter the first lived, i believe

  • @Czekytcze
    @Czekytcze Год назад +93

    I iam from czech republic and iam very proud of our slavic culture.

    • @mattbarbarich3295
      @mattbarbarich3295 Год назад +6

      Even though ur basically Germanised Protestants but at least ur woman have Slavic looking names still.

    • @donquixotedoflamingo5510
      @donquixotedoflamingo5510 Год назад

      Czechs are borderline Germanic at this point.

    • @tefky7964
      @tefky7964 Год назад +14

      @@mattbarbarich3295 We are kind of combination of German and Slavic cultures, but we don´t take it in a bad way, every country is unique and so are we. Also we are mostly atheists.

    • @vasekdrtic2760
      @vasekdrtic2760 Год назад +2

      @@mattbarbarich3295 Our coutry is more catholic than protestant.

    • @Nhkg17
      @Nhkg17 Год назад +1

      @@mattbarbarich3295 You got it exactly backwards. We are Catholic Gemans who speak and have Slavic customs. Genetically, even Hungarians are more Slavic than Czechs. ;-) Protestantism in the Czech Republic was forcibly displaced during the reign of the Habsburgs.

  • @AhimtarHoN
    @AhimtarHoN Год назад +430

    Fun fact, when Czechoslovakia split up, there was an agreement that neither state will continue to use the Czechoslovak flag. Which Czechia blatantly ignored.
    Ever since then, Czechia was cursed by slavic Gods and Czech tourists keep getting tragically lost in Slovak mountains every year

    • @zomtis
      @zomtis Год назад +23

      Lol. Not sure how much of it (about the agreement not to use the old flag by no one) is true, but it's new to me, and I kind of like the story. I guess it's too late now for a change. Greetings to both of your nations and try to forgive the Czechs. (I'm a Slovenian and I do forgive Slovaks for not being more innovative in 1993, 2 years after Slovenia adopted its flag that is now our mutual nightmare.)

    • @hipnotycznaegosymulacja9569
      @hipnotycznaegosymulacja9569 Год назад

      👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍Russians are not Slavs, there are only 6% of Slavs in Russia,
      the rest are fino - ugers, tatars, caucasians, mongols, asians, etc.
      Russia - USSR created this lie for its own IMPERIAL purposes (that Russians are Slavs) to FALSE suck up to the Slavic nations in Eastern Europe, and then occupy, murder ☠☠☠☠, resettle to Siberia, rob, Russify, these countries under the guise of tz .
      "Slavic brotherhood".
      If you still think that the Russians are Slavs, then you have become a victim of hypocritical Russian perfidious, mean Russian propaganda.

    • @AhimtarHoN
      @AhimtarHoN Год назад +5

      ​@@hipnotycznaegosymulacja9569 According to 2021 census 71.76% identify as Slavic Russians, which is not as much as some might expect (other Slavic countries mostly don't fall under 80%, only Macedonia is noticeably lower) but still very far from 6%.

    • @matusmajda6976
      @matusmajda6976 Год назад +8

      @@zomtis I don’t think Slovaks were not innovative when they were creating Slovak flag. We Have Bigger coat of arms/shield then you. With recognisable double cross that represent our nation for centuries. And we just added Slavic colors blue,red,white. You really think we just copied your/Slovenian flag? Man you are smaller nation than us.

    • @zomtis
      @zomtis Год назад +18

      @@matusmajda6976 Come on, take it easy :) I was saying it with a pinch of humour - I thought it was understoodable. I know very well enough about the history of both flags and coat of arms, of both countries. By the way, both of our flags have somehow same year of birth: 1848. None of us has stolen anyone from anyone else. And no need to compete who's bigger or so, means nothing to me. We should respect each other, I believe that we do. Just be ready also to make fun sometimes, it's nothing wrong with that - I can make fun of the fact that we could nearly got a flag and a coat of arms that would look like a chocolate bar package - and I'm happy we didn't, but I find it funny ;) But the way, I'm sure that we can both agree that it's a nightmare that they're mixing our flags and names - but it's a funny nightmare :D (Even I was working in an office abroad, where we had to explain on a daily basis, that those 2 are 2 different countries). Have a good week! :*

  • @gagetolinwrites6845
    @gagetolinwrites6845 Год назад +226

    Fun fact: Bulgaria almost had a different flag. King Ferdinand, who reigned until 1908, proposed a horizontal tricolor of black, white, and dark blue. Each color representing a different coast (Black sea, Aegean, Adriatic)

    • @ВеличкоКерин
      @ВеличкоКерин Год назад +10

      Tarnovo Constitution of 1879 as follows:
      Art. 23. The Bulgarian people's flag is three-coloured and consists of white, green and red colours, placed horizontally.

    • @ilija_Duniczew
      @ilija_Duniczew Год назад +19

      Tsar Ferdinand*

    • @hipnotycznaegosymulacja9569
      @hipnotycznaegosymulacja9569 Год назад +1

      👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍Russians are not Slavs, there are only 6% of Slavs in Russia,
      the rest are fino - ugers, tatars, caucasians, mongols, asians, etc.
      Russia - USSR created this lie for its own IMPERIAL purposes (that Russians are Slavs) to FALSE suck up to the Slavic nations in Eastern Europe, and then occupy, murder ☠☠☠☠, resettle to Siberia, rob, Russify, these countries under the guise of tz .
      "Slavic brotherhood".
      If you still think that the Russians are Slavs, then you have become a victim of hypocritical Russian perfidious, mean Russian propaganda.

    • @bearbrother9736
      @bearbrother9736 Год назад +1

      He reigned until 1918?

    • @KYLgonk
      @KYLgonk Год назад +6

      Kind of cringy to aspire to conquer enough land to be on three seas again, but still not as cringy as being a rusophile.

  • @skipthebg6561
    @skipthebg6561 Год назад +70

    In bulgarian schools they teach, that in the bulgarian flag the white represents peace, the green is for the nature and the red is for the blood of the people who fought for the country.

    • @hipnotycznaegosymulacja9569
      @hipnotycznaegosymulacja9569 Год назад

      👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍Russians are not Slavs, there are only 6% of Slavs in Russia,
      the rest are fino - ugers, tatars, caucasians, mongols, asians, etc.
      Russia - USSR created this lie for its own IMPERIAL purposes (that Russians are Slavs) to FALSE suck up to the Slavic nations in Eastern Europe, and then occupy, murder ☠☠☠☠, resettle to Siberia, rob, Russify, these countries under the guise of tz .
      "Slavic brotherhood".
      If you still think that the Russians are Slavs, then you have become a victim of hypocritical Russian perfidious, mean Russian propaganda.

    • @viktor4977
      @viktor4977 Год назад +20

      In Hungary simular. Red --> your blood belong to the king, White --> we are innocent; Green-->nature

    • @miroslavfilipov6589
      @miroslavfilipov6589 Год назад +1

      It is also a popular thesis that the colours represent the 3 main geographic regions of the country very similarly to the way you profile pic is showing.

    • @bartoszboboryko4684
      @bartoszboboryko4684 Год назад +3

      In Poland red stands for bloody sacrifice and white for scars to remember

    • @viktor4977
      @viktor4977 Год назад +1

      @@bartoszboboryko4684 hmm... I did not know that...

  • @comradeplayer
    @comradeplayer Год назад +69

    The story with the Russian flag is a little more complicated. For the first time, the tricolor flag appeared under Tsar Alexei Mikhailovich on the ship "Oryol". Before it was created, the ruler studied the flags of Great Britain, the Netherlands, Denmark, and Sweden. As a result, there are several versions of the original flag in the form of variations of tricolors and a banner with a blue cross on a white-red background.

    • @naumsahet6032
      @naumsahet6032 Год назад +17

      in addition, the colors of the flag were based on the colors of the coat of arms of the capital - Moscow. On it, St. George in white armor, with a huge blue cloak on a white horse, kills a white dragon. And all this is located on a red shield

    • @Roman-kk1ic
      @Roman-kk1ic Год назад

      You're tripping bro, Denmark and Sweden dont have tricolor on their flags, you're describing Norwegian flag

    • @comradeplayer
      @comradeplayer Год назад +5

      @@Roman-kk1ic I suggest you reread what I wrote. It says above that the Tsar was inspired by the flags of Denmark, Sweden and other maritime powers. I was not describing the flag of Norway, but one of the variants of the flag of the Russian Tsardom, based on a drawing from Carel Allard's book. And no, it does not look like the flag of Norway.

    • @user-jj1bp3es3j
      @user-jj1bp3es3j Год назад +2

      And as a Russian I don't care about this flag of romanovs-vlasov-yeltsin-putin. Not my flag.

    • @DoubleDwarf
      @DoubleDwarf 10 месяцев назад +11

      @@user-jj1bp3es3j нормальный флаг, чо ты придрался

  • @TerezatheTeacher
    @TerezatheTeacher Год назад +102

    Lol, we speak Czech, we're definitely a Slavic nation. The fact that we stole the Czechoslovakia flag doesn't mean we're not Slavs. Czech and Slovak are very similar languages. My videos are almost always in Czech but 20% of my viewers are Slovak - they have no problem understanding Czech. Russian is considered the lazy option when kids choose their second foreign language at school because learning another Slavic language is easier for Czechs. I've also read about a third of a novel in Croatian (silly me, didn't bring enough books on the trip), I understood a lot, it felt like reading very weird Slovak.

    • @guzelpitt5302
      @guzelpitt5302 Год назад +2

      So Russian is easy language for Czechs? I ve never heard Chech speaking Russian and thought that Russian is not that popular

    • @caro.jiejie
      @caro.jiejie Год назад +25

      @@guzelpitt5302 Well, usually in middle school some of us get to choose between what language we want to learn as a second foreign language - either German or Russian. (It differs from school to school obviously - some schools even offer French or other languages but mostly it's a choice between German or Russian, though there are schools that only have German language teachers so some people don't even get to choose and are forced to learn German.) That's why Russian is the "lazy" and "easy" option because it's a Slavic language so obviously it's easier for us to learn than German. But I wouldn't necessarily say Russian is easy for us to learn (Croatian is much easier, I've been told, since the languages are more alike), it's just *easier* than German.
      And there are many Czechs who speak Russian but they are mostly from older generations as during communism learning Russian was mandatory the same way learning English is today. But yeah, Russian isn't very popular nowadays and I would blame history for that.

    • @guzelpitt5302
      @guzelpitt5302 Год назад +3

      @@caro.jiejie I see. Thank you for explaining

    • @mattiatf2
      @mattiatf2 Год назад

      @@caro.jiejie if that's the case, would someone from Portugal learn Spanish, French, Italian, or Romanian very easy because they all come from the same family?

    • @caro.jiejie
      @caro.jiejie Год назад +1

      @@mattiatf2 Uhm... Well... The thing is I know very little about those languages so I can't really speak on it like I can for my native language. That being said, I think "very easy" is not the correct way to put it. Would it be *easier* than learning an "unrelated" language (like Swedish or German or Polish or Chinese or something)? Yeah, I think so.
      But yes, generally when you have a native speaker of a language in one language family (in our case Portuguese, a Romance language) learning another language that also belongs in that family (as you mentioned Spanish, French, Italian or Romanian) tends to lean moreso on the easy side of the spectrum for them. The difficulty will vary obv, I would think that for a Portuguese person, Romanian will be more difficult to learn than Spanish, just simply bcs of the distance between the three countries that speak these languages - from which we can assume that the bigger the distance, the bigger the difference in the languages. However, again, I think a Portuguese will pick up even Romanian probably a lot more easily than like... Hindi imho. *I* would put it that way anyway 😂

  • @Beckford4000
    @Beckford4000 Год назад +13

    Title says "all" Slavic flags, yet completely ignores the existence of Poland, Ukraine, Belarus, North Macedonia & Montenegro. If you're going to exclude half the Slavic nations because they don't fit into your idea, don't use the word "all". This is why RUclipsrs are guilty of making hyperbolic statements that people think are reliable.

  • @Duececoupe
    @Duececoupe Год назад +22

    Scandinavian Cross next then....😉
    Excellent video, love these flag videos!
    Keep 'em coming my friend! 🤜🏻🤛🏻🍻

    • @General.Knowledge
      @General.Knowledge  Год назад +6

      Thank you! Flag videos are usually my favorite to make. I already did one on Nordic Flags about 4 years ago, but maybe it's been long enough for a remake.

    • @Fiedman
      @Fiedman Год назад

      @@General.Knowledge I was thinking the same thing about the Nordic flags but I didn't realize you already did one, I might have to go back and watch that one then thank you.

    • @hipnotycznaegosymulacja9569
      @hipnotycznaegosymulacja9569 Год назад

      👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍Russians are not Slavs, there are only 6% of Slavs in Russia,
      the rest are fino - ugers, tatars, caucasians, mongols, asians, etc.
      Russia - USSR created this lie for its own IMPERIAL purposes (that Russians are Slavs) to FALSE suck up to the Slavic nations in Eastern Europe, and then occupy, murder ☠☠☠☠, resettle to Siberia, rob, Russify, these countries under the guise of tz .
      "Slavic brotherhood".
      If you still think that the Russians are Slavs, then you have become a victim of hypocritical Russian perfidious, mean Russian propaganda.

  • @andrewhennis1786
    @andrewhennis1786 Год назад +53

    I’d absolutely love a video on the history of the Czech flag! I’m currently in the process of learning Czech and think that interesting history will boost my motivation to learn!

    • @radeksilar543
      @radeksilar543 Год назад +5

      Well, its a chalenge to learn our language, but everyone from non-slavic country is respected, for even trying to learn it and use it, no matter of mistakes

    • @zozeme3933
      @zozeme3933 Год назад

      History of czech flag... lol

    • @michalhrdy577
      @michalhrdy577 Год назад +1

      damn bro good luck :D our language is one of the hardest haha .. hit me up if you need help haha.

    • @jake19035
      @jake19035 Год назад +4

      Fun fact - red and white was flag of kingdom of bohemia since 12th century, just upside down. They flipped it in 19th century to protest against german oppression

    • @serebii666
      @serebii666 Год назад +2

      @@jake19035 No, the flag of Bohemia was not red and white (silver) "upside down". The earliest mention by Ottokar aus der Gaal in the 13th century from Die Steirische Reimchronik, describes it as a silver lion on a red backdrop and it is confirmed by depictions of the flag for instance in the Codex Manesse or the work of Jacob Koebel: Wapen. Des heyligen Römischen Reichs Teutscher nation from 1545. The Bicolour red-white banners were later used in battle, but would be hung vertically. The current flag was only codified in the 19th century. There was no inversion.

  • @andrereis_12
    @andrereis_12 Год назад +6

    The best part of this channel is that it has no limit of content, there's always something to talk about. Nice work!

  • @Ah0jtadyHanka
    @Ah0jtadyHanka Год назад +179

    You forgot to mention that Slovakian "waves" under the cross on the flag are representing the 3 highest peaks of the country just like the slovene flag :)
    Btw. I don't think the pan-slavic colours are that new, for example traditional costumes called "kroj" in czechia and slovakia are in a lot of times blue,red and white. And I think in other slav countries it is like this too, and these krojs are old as far as 17. century at least.. I just think these colours were not just chosen but were chosen because they get along with the historic symbols and traditions.

    • @General.Knowledge
      @General.Knowledge  Год назад +27

      Thanks! And yes, I agree, it makes sense

    • @Ah0jtadyHanka
      @Ah0jtadyHanka Год назад +2

      @@General.Knowledge ❤but it was really awesome video 👏

    • @SonixusRam
      @SonixusRam Год назад +1

      Btw one of the waves is representing a peak in Hungary for some reason

    • @liltinglullaby3282
      @liltinglullaby3282 Год назад +4

      ​@@SonixusRam Because the Hungarian coat of arms has the 3 highest mountains (Tátra, Mátra, Fátra) and the reason Slovakia also has those on its CoA, is because they just adopted the Hungarian coat of arms when they became an independent country in 1993

    • @tomasvrabec1845
      @tomasvrabec1845 Год назад +2

      Yep. Be it East, West or the South. Traditional clothes of slavs (especially the 1700s and 1800s use to be mainly white with either red or blue embroidery. Variations existed, I think Belarusians had green and red which they also use in their flag (the stripe especially is embroidery).

  •  Год назад +10

    You are the first one that I saw on Internet mentioning "slovo" ("word") as the root of word "slav". Actually, this is my understanding too. "Sloveni" are the people who can speak understandable words, while "Nemci" (Germans) are the people who are "nemi" ("mute") - who, from Slavic perspective, can't speak understandable words.

    • @ClifffSVK
      @ClifffSVK 6 месяцев назад

      Yes. This folk etymology is shared everywhere on the internet. Just look at the other comments under this video. You guys are like bots. But the truth could be somewhere else. The word Slav probably comes from the original Slavic name for Dnieper: Slovǫta. And the word Nemec could come from the name of the Celtic tribe Nemetes, who Romans thought were a Germanic tribe.

  • @LosowyLogin
    @LosowyLogin Год назад +13

    Word „slavs” come from the word „slovo”, which means „word”. So slavs means all those who can speak words. This is opposite to „niemcy” (germans is slavic), which literally means „mute”, „dumb”, which describes the ones who cannot speak

    • @HeroManNick132
      @HeroManNick132 Год назад

      You know that not every Slavic nation says ''niemcy'' some say ''nemci'' or ''germanci'' even.

    • @wlodek7422
      @wlodek7422 10 месяцев назад +1

      ​@@HeroManNick132nemci is just variation of that word tho, it means the same and is related to niemcy. As for germanci i guess it comes from english

    • @CrisCheese_
      @CrisCheese_ Месяц назад

      ​@@wlodek7422no, germanci comes from latin

  • @padinspi11
    @padinspi11 Год назад +51

    You could also include the sorbians. They are a (very small) native slavic community in saxony and brandenburg and do use the slavic colors on their flag

    • @rnabo031
      @rnabo031 Год назад +1

      Interesting, I have to say I haven't heard of them before.

    • @padinspi11
      @padinspi11 Год назад +8

      @@rnabo031 Well tbh they are nearly completely unknown. They are like 60 000 at best, their language is nearly dead, they have never had a political entity and their culture is just german with some local traditions (like everywhere) and a weird ancestry. They are protected though

    • @HeroManNick132
      @HeroManNick132 Год назад +5

      @@padinspi11 R.I.P. to the last Polabian who died in 1825...

    • @hipnotycznaegosymulacja9569
      @hipnotycznaegosymulacja9569 Год назад +1

      👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍Russians are not Slavs, there are only 6% of Slavs in Russia,
      the rest are fino - ugers, tatars, caucasians, mongols, asians, etc.
      Russia - USSR created this lie for its own IMPERIAL purposes (that Russians are Slavs) to FALSE suck up to the Slavic nations in Eastern Europe, and then occupy, murder ☠☠☠☠, resettle to Siberia, rob, Russify, these countries under the guise of tz .
      "Slavic brotherhood".
      If you still think that the Russians are Slavs, then you have become a victim of hypocritical Russian perfidious, mean Russian propaganda.

    • @MegaTobi999
      @MegaTobi999 Год назад +8

      ​@@rnabo031 Eastern germany was inhabited by slavs. Last slavic pagan tribes were counquerd by Frederick II in early 1000s

  • @Hand-in-Shot_Productions
    @Hand-in-Shot_Productions Год назад +8

    I've read a bit about the pan-Slavic colors, but I've learned a lot more about them from here! It's interesting how many medieval flags and coats of arms happened to use these colors centuries before they became "pan-Slavic"! Thanks for the video!

  • @kami-the-fox
    @kami-the-fox Год назад +23

    Im from Slovak, and today thanks to you I learned something new about my country :D
    I have an info if you would like to know, we Slovak people call Czech people our brothers, same as they call us their brothers. We also have very similiar language, and us Slovak people like to watch movies in Czech dabing, not Slovak XD

    • @ZoreslavKvitenko
      @ZoreslavKvitenko 10 месяцев назад +1

      Ja som z Ukrajiny, ale žijem na Slovensku, v Bratislave, kvôli vojne (mimochodom, veľmi pekné slovo - kvôli). Takže učím slovenčinu, ale predo vojny učil som sa trochu češtinu (teraz už niečím).
      Tieto dva jazyky naozaj sú podobné, ale slovenčina pre mňa je viac peknejšia za češtinu (ospravedlňujem sa predo Čechov ktorý sa čitaju toto, váš jazyk tiež je pekný 😳)
      Aj ľudia na Slovensku sú vel'my pekný, milujem túto krajinu 🇺🇦♥️🇸🇰

    • @Kieran_Keegan
      @Kieran_Keegan 10 месяцев назад

      ​@@ZoreslavKvitenkoА з якого ви регіону України? Якщо не секрет

    • @ZoreslavKvitenko
      @ZoreslavKvitenko 10 месяцев назад

      @@Kieran_Keegan Київ

    • @Kieran_Keegan
      @Kieran_Keegan 10 месяцев назад

      @@ZoreslavKvitenko О, столице, а я народився і прожив якийсь час у Білгороді, потім виїхав із Росії. Я наполовину російська, наполовину українець

    • @ZoreslavKvitenko
      @ZoreslavKvitenko 10 месяцев назад

      @@Kieran_Keegan йоой, це круто! Сподіваюся, ви зараз перебуваєте у відносно безпечному місці. У якому місті ви наразі живете?

  • @stevejohnson3357
    @stevejohnson3357 Год назад +26

    The colored bands from the outside look like a little bit of industrial design or branding but as you showed us, have deeper meaning (sometimes). The blue is in the middle of the Russian flag because it symbolizes the monarchy or state and the others are land and the people. On the French tricolor, the white is the monarchy. Most of these countries, even if they are republics today were once monarchies.

    • @MChagall
      @MChagall Год назад

      Netherlands is the only one that went from Republic to Monarchy instead of the other way around.
      Red/Vermiljoen = Burghers = ?
      White = Clergy = pure/virginity
      Blue = Nobility = blue blood of nobels

    • @hipnotycznaegosymulacja9569
      @hipnotycznaegosymulacja9569 Год назад

      👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍Russians are not Slavs, there are only 6% of Slavs in Russia,
      the rest are fino - ugers, tatars, caucasians, mongols, asians, etc.
      Russia - USSR created this lie for its own IMPERIAL purposes (that Russians are Slavs) to FALSE suck up to the Slavic nations in Eastern Europe, and then occupy, murder ☠☠☠☠, resettle to Siberia, rob, Russify, these countries under the guise of tz .
      "Slavic brotherhood".
      If you still think that the Russians are Slavs, then you have become a victim of hypocritical Russian perfidious, mean Russian propaganda.

    • @user-76122
      @user-76122 Год назад

      Белый цвет - белая кость(знать);священство.
      Синий цвет- государство(армия, МВД,аппарат)
      Красный - простой народ.

    • @alh6255
      @alh6255 Год назад

      You are blabbering: the blue color on the Russian flag means the Orthodox faith and comes from Veliky Novgorod, which had nothing to do with Russia and Moscow, but was conquered and murdered by it, and the color was taken over by Moscow.

    • @vladm5920
      @vladm5920 10 месяцев назад +4

      ⁠@@alh6255lol, is that the history they’re teaching in Ukraine now? Soo Kiev is not part of the Russian history, Novgorod is not part of the Russian history, soon enough none of the Russian cities will be part of its history apart from Moscow 😅 Is it also true that the Ancient Ukrainians dug out the Black Sea? It was mentioned in one of the Ukrainian school books.

  • @ifif7280
    @ifif7280 Год назад +26

    Great video, thank you!!!!
    All I want to say, Slavs should unite, politicians have been working very hard to make us hate each other....we have great common traditions and values ❤️🤍💙💚💛

    • @jarvee9407
      @jarvee9407 Год назад +3

      No.

    • @Великоросс-в8и
      @Великоросс-в8и Год назад

      "The main bloody enemy of Russia and GreatRussian Tribe not Islamist Ottoman not Gallo-Roman and not Teutonic German but all Slavic Tribes and Nations".
      © F.M. Dostoevsky 1878

    • @lordocas6778
      @lordocas6778 Год назад

      jsem Čech a říkám, to se doufám nikdy nestane

  • @gladpodvalnyanarchistpwnz3398
    @gladpodvalnyanarchistpwnz3398 Год назад +42

    Хорошее видео, очень познавательное, особенно для людей, далёких от наших культур
    Не забывайте, что славяне очень добрые и гостеприимные
    А теперь пришло время есть блины, борщ и пельмени

    • @AKWARIZOMAKS
      @AKWARIZOMAKS Год назад +6

      И словенский ореховый пирог

    • @ДмитроКостів-й1ю
      @ДмитроКостів-й1ю Год назад +1

      рускі самі озлоблені і кровожадні тварюки і історично завжди було так і взагалі росію важко назвати слов'янами

    • @ВолодимирДовженко-п4э
      @ВолодимирДовженко-п4э 9 месяцев назад +1

      пельмени не ваши

    • @ВасилийСуров-д3й
      @ВасилийСуров-д3й 7 месяцев назад

      @@ВолодимирДовженко-п4э Едим-значит наши.😋

    • @alexanderorlov3164
      @alexanderorlov3164 4 месяца назад +1

      @@ВолодимирДовженко-п4э Так блины и борщ тоже не расиянские :). Как и раисия не словяне ;)

  • @tommygun333
    @tommygun333 Год назад +15

    'Słowo' in Polish meaning 'word' makes good sense with the meaning of the word 'Niemiec' - 'German', which is similar to the word 'niemy' meaning mute. The one you can't speak with contrary to other Slavs you could easily communicate with a thousand years ago.

    • @lenjivko3227
      @lenjivko3227 Год назад +2

      on serbian Nemac ( nijem, nem, mutav ) means mute, silent. on serbian Grman is referred to 1) bush, and 2) thunder. grmani - thunderers, those who thunder, and bush as of military tactikc from 1000+ years ago.

    • @HeroManNick132
      @HeroManNick132 Год назад +4

      This thing is not exclusive to Polish.

    • @ДмитроЯсінський-ч4б
      @ДмитроЯсінський-ч4б Год назад +4

      almost same in Ukrainian (Slovo/Nimec)

    • @rastislavsmolek8140
      @rastislavsmolek8140 Год назад +1

      In Slovak Slovo - Word, Nemec - German and Nemi - Mute

    • @Noname-oj5me
      @Noname-oj5me Год назад +5

      Po ruski to zhe samoe

  • @martychisnall
    @martychisnall Год назад +22

    1. Croatia already used a red-white-blue tricolour long before Yugoslavia was a thing
    2. Slav doesn’t come from slave, slave comes from slav, this is an extremely well known fact
    3. Slovenia already had a state in its modern day territory known as the Duchy of Carniola and “shockingly” they already used a tricolour before Yugoslavia existed

    • @stipe3124
      @stipe3124 Год назад +1

      Slav comes probably from word Slava or translated to English "Glory"

    • @hipnotycznaegosymulacja9569
      @hipnotycznaegosymulacja9569 Год назад

      👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍Russians are not Slavs, there are only 6% of Slavs in Russia,
      the rest are fino - ugers, tatars, caucasians, mongols, asians, etc.
      Russia - USSR created this lie for its own IMPERIAL purposes (that Russians are Slavs) to FALSE suck up to the Slavic nations in Eastern Europe, and then occupy, murder ☠☠☠☠, resettle to Siberia, rob, Russify, these countries under the guise of tz .
      "Slavic brotherhood".
      If you still think that the Russians are Slavs, then you have become a victim of hypocritical Russian perfidious, mean Russian propaganda. 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍

    • @stipe3124
      @stipe3124 Год назад +4

      Slav is not an ethnicity it is a lingusitic group, for example pre Roman population of Balkans and todays slavic population share around 40-50% same genetics, Hungarians and Romanians who are not Slavs share genetics with their Slavic neighbours.

  • @nikiphoross
    @nikiphoross Год назад +75

    In fact, Russian naval white-blue-white tricolor was first raised on the ship Oryol in 1667, during the reign of czar Alexei Mikhailovich, when Peter the Great wasn't even born

    • @metalvideos1961
      @metalvideos1961 Год назад +5

      yes and that flag is derived from our dutch flag. our flag is the first tricolor flag in the world.

    • @ясно-й6м
      @ясно-й6м Год назад +4

      ​@@metalvideos1961 tricolor has never been a state flag of Russia till the idiotic eltsin came to power. Those colors are not related to Russia, but only to trading ships.

    • @metalvideos1961
      @metalvideos1961 Год назад +4

      @@ясно-й6м the first sign of the use of that flag was already in 1696. Because of Peter the Great we had barely our Dutch flag as we know it today at that time. but yeah Russia did took our colors and create their own flag.

    • @Deathstroke-r7h
      @Deathstroke-r7h Год назад +1

      they had double-headed eagle in the middle of flag too

    • @lordocas6778
      @lordocas6778 Год назад

      rusáci jsou tataři, netahej je do civilizace

  • @OdysseyTag
    @OdysseyTag Год назад +24

    Would love for you to do a video on the Pan-African Rastafari colours used in a lot of West and Central Africa.

    • @PauloVLopes
      @PauloVLopes Год назад +2

      I read once that they're all based off from Ethiopia's (One of the few territories in Africa not colonized). But it would be interesting to see that vide, including why Ethiopia chose green, yellow, and red.

    • @hipnotycznaegosymulacja9569
      @hipnotycznaegosymulacja9569 Год назад

      👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍Russians are not Slavs, there are only 6% of Slavs in Russia,
      the rest are fino - ugers, tatars, caucasians, mongols, asians, etc.
      Russia - USSR created this lie for its own IMPERIAL purposes (that Russians are Slavs) to FALSE suck up to the Slavic nations in Eastern Europe, and then occupy, murder ☠☠☠☠, resettle to Siberia, rob, Russify, these countries under the guise of tz .
      "Slavic brotherhood".
      If you still think that the Russians are Slavs, then you have become a victim of hypocritical Russian perfidious, mean Russian propaganda.

    • @niketesambrosiosdelagrece2266
      @niketesambrosiosdelagrece2266 Год назад +1

      Haile Selassie forever

    • @chronikhiles
      @chronikhiles 10 месяцев назад

      @JAmon-np1po I hope you found Google in your life.

  • @morratrako5652
    @morratrako5652 Год назад +31

    10:30 as for etymology it could be also from slavic word ,,fame" for example polish sława or ukrainian slava. When we talk about word slovo, there is one funny connection: Poles call themselves ,,słowianie" which could mean ,,those who know words" but they call germans ,,Niemcy" which could come from ,,those who don't talk/don't know words". It was like, germans don't talk in the human language...

    • @dvnk6971
      @dvnk6971 Год назад +1

      Dont forget the word "slava"

    • @rettimz7799
      @rettimz7799 Год назад +1

      В русской немцы я думаю, означает немые к Солнцу, а славяне наоборот близкие к солнцу

    • @MrKotBonifacy
      @MrKotBonifacy Год назад +4

      _but they call germans ,,Niemcy" which could come from ,,those who don't talk/don't know words_ - AFAIK "Niemiec" was - at the beginning - a general term meaning "unable to speak" (as in Polish "niemy"), in the sense "unable to communicate", and that term was to meant "a foreigner" - in the same fashion Greeks called "non-Greeks" "barbarians" (i.e. mocking their "bar-bar-bar" incomprehensible "blabber").
      Anyway, as Germans were (back then) the only non-Slavic neighbours, that designator became synonymous with German people.
      But then I never checked the accuracy of this information, therefore (pardon my French) "whoy knows" ;-)

    • @debilk1n
      @debilk1n Год назад +5

      more likely yes,in Russian we also have word niemoy-people who don't speak,and slovo-word

    • @vukaleksic1654
      @vukaleksic1654 Год назад +2

      True,Slovani mean they who speak our language.. In Serbia we have" Slava" wich is celebration day of the Saint - defender of family,,every family have one

  • @jirimatejka7394
    @jirimatejka7394 Год назад +68

    Hi, I am from Czechia and we very much are slavic, Czech is a slavic languague, we might have picked up some german culural stuff over the cunturies but we are slavic. It is a little bit insulting to doubt our slavic-ness

    • @David-kn4hb
      @David-kn4hb Год назад +7

      Nikdo tady neříkal, že Češi nejsou Slované.

    • @General.Knowledge
      @General.Knowledge  Год назад +17

      No insult meant! I was truly just unaware/unsure. Thanks for clarifying :)

    • @martinhejc327
      @martinhejc327 Год назад +7

      Well no , we are slavic only by culture, we are in genes Celto-Germanic , only after Konstantin and Metoděj came with slavic culture...

    • @jirimatejka7394
      @jirimatejka7394 Год назад +5

      @@David-kn4hb Doslova zo řekl v tom videu

    • @David-kn4hb
      @David-kn4hb Год назад +4

      @@martinhejc327 kulturně jsme Rakušané

  • @slavsavov99
    @slavsavov99 Год назад +9

    The Bulgarian flag represents the following:
    White - freedom of the spirit
    Green - The gorgeous mountains and forests
    Red - All the blood our ancestors spilled for our freedom
    Of course, this is the current interpretation, there is no evidence that this was the intention when the flag was designed.
    Greetings to all Slavs

    • @nickpanov1080
      @nickpanov1080 Год назад

      And blue for the world wars wins.

    • @slavsavov99
      @slavsavov99 Год назад

      @@nickpanov1080 good one

    • @Mindpxwer
      @Mindpxwer Год назад

      Привет, привет

    • @ivoraw
      @ivoraw Год назад

      Още един съветски българин, носиите в мизия са бели в тракия зелени в македония червени, баби нямате ли не сте ли им виждали чеизите от коя планета идвате.

    • @sanwomashi1751
      @sanwomashi1751 Год назад +1

      like in Polish flag - but only white and red

  • @mojaslovenija9903
    @mojaslovenija9903 Год назад +12

    There is a misuderstanding of the origin of Slovene national flag. It was acctually the firs slavic flag using the combination of white (top), blue (middle) and red (bottom). The flag originates from the coat of the arms of the Land of Carniola. The Book of Coats of Arms from 1370 describes that the coat of arms of the Land of Carniola is a heraldic blue eagle (in takeoff) on a white (heraldically silver) background, with a right-facing head (according to heraldic standards), which has a white-red painted and downward-facing crescent on its chest . In 1463, Holy Roman Emperor Frederick II. he allowed the Carniolan provincial estates (the Carniolan army saved his empire and also his life in the battle) to use yellow (gold) in their coat of arms instead of white (silver), and place a golden imperial crown on the eagle's head.
    In his numerous writings, heraldry researcher Dr. Šavli states that the regional coat of arms was created even before the elevation of Carniola to a duchy in 1364, according to some sources, the years 1156 and 1161 are mentioned.
    The nowadays Russian flag was first used as an ensign for Russian merchant ships in 1696 It remained as a merchands flag in use until 1858, when the first official flag of the Russian Empire was decreed by Alexander II, which was a tricolour consisting of three horizontal fields: black on the top, yellow in the middle, and white on the bottom. A decree in 1896 reinstated the white, blue, and red tricolour as the official flag of the Russian Empire until 1917.
    So Slovenian flag is with over 500 years older origins and the colour similar to Dutch flag and later to Russian flag is just a coincidence. The modern Russian flag as the national flag was declared in 1993 as the Slovenian flag was in 1945 as the flag of the Republic of Slovenia part of the Yugoslav federation. The Slovenian national flag was adopted by the Slovenian Assembly on June 24, 1991, when it adopted an amendment to the 1974 constitution, replacing the old flag shortly before Slovenia gained independence. So no "copy-pasting", but opposite ;)

    • @makavelimaka8035
      @makavelimaka8035 Год назад +1

      Yes, Slovenian flag predates all pan Slavic flags today.

    • @JaPakaj
      @JaPakaj Год назад +1

      Šavli is also known for disproven theories like the supposed real ancestors of Slovenes being the Veneti and not the slavic people. While it is true that our German speaking neighbours and former fellow countrymen have called us Windisch, this comes from the slavic tribe the Wends, not to be confused with the latin tribe Veneti, who lived around Venice. But as likely as it is that our slavic ancestors have intermingled with the germanic tribes, it is also they likely they did the same with the latin ones. So maybe there is some truth after all.
      It is true tho, that the color combination of white, blue and red, has been used in the heraldry of the Duchy of Carniola since the 13th century, before it even became a duchy. But it was not untill 1848, that the tricolor was used in a modern horizontal lines fashion, that is also seen today in our flag. 1848 was also the year of the Prague Slavic Congress, which our deputies attended.
      I don't think it matters who was first, and the colors aren't really exclusive to slavic countries. France, Netherlands, USA, etc. have the same colors. We are all copying each other.

    • @makavelimaka8035
      @makavelimaka8035 Год назад

      @@JaPakaj Jurij Venelin, Moscow 1830 Ancient and today's Slovenes. Read and wonder.

  • @eliali6484
    @eliali6484 Год назад +6

    Very accurate information! About the green on the Bulgarian flag - the national mythology says this is the color of the woods and the mountains, one of the national symbols. But my personal explanation is the color of the flags in our National liberation movement - they are all green. After all pan Slavic ideas weren't very popular in Bulgaria in that time because the aim was a creation of one big Slavic country governed by Serbia under the huge influence of Russia. Our revolutionaries didn't agree...

    • @Kampotik
      @Kampotik Год назад +1

      Rather, you had wars with Serbia over who would unite the Slavs and no one wanted to stand under the banner of another. It was the same with Russia and Poland.

  • @basschalice
    @basschalice Год назад +26

    1:41 it's not true, poles do use blue color - you cannot actually see it becase it stands for loyal allies ;)

    • @roshawnsims
      @roshawnsims Год назад +1

      Lol

    • @hipnotycznaegosymulacja9569
      @hipnotycznaegosymulacja9569 Год назад

      👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍Russians are not Slavs, there are only 6% of Slavs in Russia,
      the rest are fino - ugers, tatars, caucasians, mongols, asians, etc.
      Russia - USSR created this lie for its own IMPERIAL purposes (that Russians are Slavs) to FALSE suck up to the Slavic nations in Eastern Europe, and then occupy, murder ☠☠☠☠, resettle to Siberia, rob, Russify, these countries under the guise of tz .
      "Slavic brotherhood".
      If you still think that the Russians are Slavs, then you have become a victim of hypocritical Russian perfidious, mean Russian propaganda. 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍

  • @David-kn4hb
    @David-kn4hb Год назад +35

    Transnistria is by Russia supported breakaway state in Moldova not in Romania and it doesn’t use any pan Slavic flag. It use the old flag of the Moldavian Soviet Socialist Republic and that is a red flag with a thin green strip in the middle and with a hammer and sickle in the corner.

    • @jeffkardosjr.3825
      @jeffkardosjr.3825 Год назад +5

      Belarus also uses a similar flag from the same family as the PMR.

    • @PetrovichErochin
      @PetrovichErochin Год назад +9

      Transnistria uses two flags. One is soviet moldavian, the other is modern russian.

    • @WangAiHua
      @WangAiHua Год назад +6

      @@PetrovichErochin
      The RuZZian flag in "Transnistria" is the RuZZian flag of occupation!

    • @viktorias63
      @viktorias63 Год назад +1

      @@jeffkardosjr.3825their old flag was white red and white, but was changed to that flag by Lukashenka with a "referendum" in 96.

    • @jeffkardosjr.3825
      @jeffkardosjr.3825 Год назад

      @@viktorias63 That flag is boring.

  • @cacus_
    @cacus_ Год назад +14

    Awesome video! Just one correction: transnistria is Moldova and not Romania.

    • @hipnotycznaegosymulacja9569
      @hipnotycznaegosymulacja9569 Год назад

      👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍Russians are not Slavs, there are only 6% of Slavs in Russia,
      the rest are fino - ugers, tatars, caucasians, mongols, asians, etc.
      Russia - USSR created this lie for its own IMPERIAL purposes (that Russians are Slavs) to FALSE suck up to the Slavic nations in Eastern Europe, and then occupy, murder ☠☠☠☠, resettle to Siberia, rob, Russify, these countries under the guise of tz .
      "Slavic brotherhood".
      If you still think that the Russians are Slavs, then you have become a victim of hypocritical Russian perfidious, mean Russian propaganda.

    • @Mindpxwer
      @Mindpxwer Год назад

      Not moldova

  • @nailxbreak6777
    @nailxbreak6777 Год назад +10

    On the first Russian tricolor flag of the Russian Kingdom, on the tricolor flag of the Tsar of Moscow, there was also a two-headed eagle holding the Power and the Scepter, and in the center of the eagle the coat of arms of George the Victorious, in fact, the current Russian flag is indeed the historically true flag of the Russian people

    • @gotrefer6183
      @gotrefer6183 Год назад +1

      Moscovites (such was name of russians, than velykoroses ) and only in 1930 stalin rename it ruskies. Two headed eagle was stolen from mongol empire and Byzantine.
      So russians never create something new, they always stole everything from others.

    • @JimmySaulGoodmanMcGill1960
      @JimmySaulGoodmanMcGill1960 Год назад +6

      @@gotrefer6183 me when I spread misinformation on the internet:

  • @janhanchenmichelsen2627
    @janhanchenmichelsen2627 Год назад +25

    IMO the Czech flag is one of the best designs in the world. Brillian!

    • @General.Knowledge
      @General.Knowledge  Год назад +7

      Same, it's very cool

    • @Elainerulesutube
      @Elainerulesutube Год назад +2

      It's very similar to the Philippines flag.

    • @hipnotycznaegosymulacja9569
      @hipnotycznaegosymulacja9569 Год назад

      👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍Russians are not Slavs, there are only 6% of Slavs in Russia,
      the rest are fino - ugers, tatars, caucasians, mongols, asians, etc.
      Russia - USSR created this lie for its own IMPERIAL purposes (that Russians are Slavs) to FALSE suck up to the Slavic nations in Eastern Europe, and then occupy, murder ☠☠☠☠, resettle to Siberia, rob, Russify, these countries under the guise of tz .
      "Slavic brotherhood".
      If you still think that the Russians are Slavs, then you have become a victim of hypocritical Russian perfidious, mean Russian propaganda. 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍

    • @krystofviktora1211
      @krystofviktora1211 Год назад

      @@Elainerulesutube yeah but it was here before it

    • @serebii666
      @serebii666 Год назад

      @@Elainerulesutube Phillipines have too much extra elements and an ugly aspect ratio to be beautiful.

  • @Erebgil91
    @Erebgil91 Год назад +9

    You might also be interested in seeing the "freedom or death" flag, which was used in the rebellion preceding Bulgarian's liberation from the Ottoman empire. It's not the same green, but probably a significant reference to have the green colour in our flag nowadays

    • @HeroManNick132
      @HeroManNick132 Год назад

      Македонците си мислят, че сме го базирали от болестното им пристрастяване към татарите от Татарстан.

    • @beadsman13
      @beadsman13 Год назад +1

      За първи път Раковски предлага сегашното ни знаме.

  • @AudenciaD2
    @AudenciaD2 8 месяцев назад +1

    From a Filipino, My Full RESPECT TO ALL SLAVIC MEN AND WOMEN in this PLANET

  • @contrarian8870
    @contrarian8870 Год назад +4

    Poland and (old) Bohemia flags derive from their medieval coats-of-arms, white eagle/lion on red (~12-13th century). they precede any "Pan-Slavic ideas" by ~600 years. Poland / Bohemian flags simply follow an old European heraldic pattern: the flag colors derive from the charge & shield of the medieval coat-of-arms. The coat-of-arms, in turn, is usually the crest of a ruling dynasty, or a major city. It's a very common heraldic pattern in Europe: Austria (from the crest of Babenbergs), Luxemburg (Luxemburg/Limburg), Bavaria (Wittelsbach), Tirol (Albert of Tirol), Monaco, San Marino (from city crests) etc. Many of these flags use some combinations of white and red or blue, simply because these colors are very common in heraldry.

  • @Ectheli0n
    @Ectheli0n Год назад +10

    I was once in Croatia when the local tried to explain to me their weird flag, and coat of arms...bro the slavs have such a complicated history so its not that simple to explain a flag+coat of arms in short, so kudos to you for giving it a shot, and making this vid..

    • @RWaarden
      @RWaarden Год назад

      That’s when happens when they embed that info in your head a lotta of times during education. You’d wanna share it too 😂

    • @SrdjanBasaric-w2s
      @SrdjanBasaric-w2s Год назад

      Don't expect of Croat to explain anything about their history. Don't expect a Croat to tell you, let's say, that those three lionesses from the Dalmatian coat of arms are the sons of the first Serbian king.

    • @jansobieski6240
      @jansobieski6240 Год назад +9

      ​@@SrdjanBasaric-w2s serbs and their mythology

    • @SrdjanBasaric-w2s
      @SrdjanBasaric-w2s Год назад

      @@jansobieski6240 Nothing less than Polish mythology. But at least it wasn't created for us by the Vatican.

    • @jansobieski6240
      @jansobieski6240 Год назад +1

      @@SrdjanBasaric-w2s Better Vatican than Istanbul

  • @pavolp.6527
    @pavolp.6527 Год назад +14

    Fun fact for you:
    In Slovakia, we call our country in our native language Slovensko, our women Slovenky, our language Slovensky jazyk. Slovaks and Slovenes were once one and the same nation, but we were divided by magyars/todays hungarians and we went separate ways.

    • @Harahvaiti
      @Harahvaiti Год назад

      That is true, the Svatopluk kingdom had today's Slovakia and Slovenia and also today's northern Croatia.
      Croats in early medieval Croatia (today's Dalmatia) did not like Svatopluk all that much.

    • @pavolp.6527
      @pavolp.6527 Год назад

      @@Harahvaiti Croats actually know about Svatopluk?

    • @Harahvaiti
      @Harahvaiti Год назад +1

      @pavolp.6527 well, today not so much outside the historian circles, but back then he was well known to rulers of Croat princedom same as Bulgars and Byzanthians were. No matter if he were Slavic, he was still viewed as foreign expanding power.
      Only later did the Hungarian wedge made the split between today's West and today's South Slavs. When I was in Slovakia, my friends that speak the Chakavian dialect (in which _what_ is _ča_ while in Slovakia is _čo_ ) were quite surprised with how much vocabulary their dialect (closest to medieval Croatian) shares with Slovakian.

    • @pavolp.6527
      @pavolp.6527 Год назад +1

      @@Harahvaiti oh I never knew about this, thank you. Slava brat

    • @sergey_Berezkin
      @sergey_Berezkin Год назад +3

      @@pavolp.6527 привет из России😉

  • @mareqg4849
    @mareqg4849 Год назад +3

    We, Slavs, are a great Nation and we are so proud of it. We are the oldest inhabitants of Europe. God Bless all Slavs.

    • @serebii666
      @serebii666 Год назад +2

      "oldest inhabitants of Europe" Aboslutely not. Ignoring the fact that Neanderthals were in Europe before modern Humans, language isolates like Etruscans, Basques, Albanians all predate even Indo-Europeans. And Slavs came to Europe only after people like Myceneans, Hallstatts were living there for millenia. Also Slavs are not one nation.

    • @mareqg4849
      @mareqg4849 Год назад +1

      @@serebii666 Your opinion. I don't care.

    • @serebii666
      @serebii666 Год назад +1

      @@mareqg4849 No, not opinion. Historical fact. Facts don't care about your feelings.

    • @mareqg4849
      @mareqg4849 Год назад

      @@serebii666 No historical fact. Bullshit. 🤦‍♂️😂

    • @erigreca3297
      @erigreca3297 10 месяцев назад

      ​@@serebii666true

  • @lozestephane1291
    @lozestephane1291 Год назад +4

    In fact, the French flag wasn't inspired by the Dutch one but was a combinaison of the colors of Paris (blue and red) and the monarchy's color (white)

  • @silencebeats14
    @silencebeats14 Год назад

    Was waiting eagerly for this video....glad you made it !!

    • @el-jp3xp
      @el-jp3xp Год назад

      How is ur cow? ☺️ ate dung?

    • @silencebeats14
      @silencebeats14 Год назад +1

      @@el-jp3xp no have left some for you...come have it 😂

  • @Tounushi
    @Tounushi Год назад +23

    Nordic Cross flag video next? Or was there one already?
    Ah, right, Fun With Flags #22 - Nordic Flags from four years ago.

    • @hipnotycznaegosymulacja9569
      @hipnotycznaegosymulacja9569 Год назад

      👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍Russians are not Slavs, there are only 6% of Slavs in Russia,
      the rest are fino - ugers, tatars, caucasians, mongols, asians, etc.
      Russia - USSR created this lie for its own IMPERIAL purposes (that Russians are Slavs) to FALSE suck up to the Slavic nations in Eastern Europe, and then occupy, murder ☠☠☠☠, resettle to Siberia, rob, Russify, these countries under the guise of tz .
      "Slavic brotherhood".
      If you still think that the Russians are Slavs, then you have become a victim of hypocritical Russian perfidious, mean Russian propaganda.

    • @Tounushi
      @Tounushi Год назад

      @@hipnotycznaegosymulacja9569 OK, bot. Blocked.

    • @8345L-j9s
      @8345L-j9s Год назад

      @@Tounushi I am not a Bot and you have become a victim of lying russian propaganda.

    • @Tounushi
      @Tounushi Год назад

      @@8345L-j9s Another bot account from the same user? Making an incongruous reply utterly unrelated to a comment I've made is a pretty damn big indicator of being a bot.
      Regardless, blocked.

    • @8345L-j9s
      @8345L-j9s Год назад +1

      @@Tounushi You can block me, I don't have any problem with it, because I know that the truth of the victory, the truth is the strongest, Russia will fall apart and will be the greatness of the current Bialorus, russia is sick, fascist, perfidious, mean, primitive, pathological state on clay legs

  • @Sushram-ii1ey
    @Sushram-ii1ey Год назад +4

    SERBIAN concentration camp for children:
    - Rakovica manastir near belgrade
    Serbian rp camp for children during the 1990s:
    - Omarska camp
    - Trnopolje
    - Visegrad
    - Prijedor
    - Foca
    And many many more
    Not Gestapo but the whole world was disgusted of serbian "culture"

  • @reisefan512
    @reisefan512 Год назад +3

    There is also flag of Lusatia Sorbs in Germany which has blue on top, red in the middle and white colour in the bottom.

  • @claram5482
    @claram5482 Год назад +4

    I don't know if this is up your alley, but I was recently reading an article about flags and symbols in Al-Andalus and got me thinking of flags that no longer represent the original territory or that have changed meaning. Would be cool to see a video on that!

  • @d3z_1337
    @d3z_1337 Год назад +18

    10:20 there is also an opinion that "slav" came from "slava" which means "glory" in most Slavic languages

    • @pickle6599
      @pickle6599 Год назад

      Or "slovo".

    • @kakoypsevdonimlol
      @kakoypsevdonimlol Год назад +1

      Most of the slavs call themselves as «slovic», only in russian, belorusian, croatian and bulgarian they called «slavic»

    • @veirant5004
      @veirant5004 Год назад +6

      @@kakoypsevdonimlol, "most" is a fairly wrong term to be used. Russian has three times more speakers around the world, than all the other slavic languages all together.

    • @Darklight727
      @Darklight727 Год назад

      Bulgarians came from the same place as thracians and mixed with Greece. So their race was proto Bulgarians. But they later mixed with the slavs I am Bulgarian and have greek genes too.

    • @hanselvogis5142
      @hanselvogis5142 Год назад +2

      "slovo" and "slava" have in fact the same origin.

  • @stevengaran1276
    @stevengaran1276 Год назад

    Hey, man cool video! One thing you are going to want to fix is your spelling of "Color" on the thumbnail of the video... but other than that everything else looks great!

  • @alextheboatguy399
    @alextheboatguy399 Год назад +15

    I love your videos from Greece 🇬🇷❤🇵🇹

    • @General.Knowledge
      @General.Knowledge  Год назад +6

      Thanks!

    • @hipnotycznaegosymulacja9569
      @hipnotycznaegosymulacja9569 Год назад +1

      👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍Russians are not Slavs, there are only 6% of Slavs in Russia,
      the rest are fino - ugers, tatars, caucasians, mongols, asians, etc.
      Russia - USSR created this lie for its own IMPERIAL purposes (that Russians are Slavs) to FALSE suck up to the Slavic nations in Eastern Europe, and then occupy, murder ☠☠☠☠, resettle to Siberia, rob, Russify, these countries under the guise of tz .
      "Slavic brotherhood".
      If you still think that the Russians are Slavs, then you have become a victim of hypocritical Russian perfidious, mean Russian propaganda.

  • @FreshVito_bg
    @FreshVito_bg Год назад +5

    I want to also mention that the three colours on the Bulgarian flag also stand for the three historical regions where Bulgarians were considered an ethnic majority.
    White-Moesia .
    Green-Thrace.
    Red-Macedonia.

    • @HeroManNick132
      @HeroManNick132 Год назад

      Македонците: Боите от флага на ТаТарСтАн!!!!

    • @hipnotycznaegosymulacja9569
      @hipnotycznaegosymulacja9569 Год назад

      👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍Russians are not Slavs, there are only 6% of Slavs in Russia,
      the rest are fino - ugers, tatars, caucasians, mongols, asians, etc.
      Russia - USSR created this lie for its own IMPERIAL purposes (that Russians are Slavs) to FALSE suck up to the Slavic nations in Eastern Europe, and then occupy, murder ☠☠☠☠, resettle to Siberia, rob, Russify, these countries under the guise of tz .
      "Slavic brotherhood".
      If you still think that the Russians are Slavs, then you have become a victim of hypocritical Russian perfidious, mean Russian propaganda. 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍

    • @FreshVito_bg
      @FreshVito_bg Год назад +2

      @@hipnotycznaegosymulacja9569 How can Russians speak a Slavic language and have Slavic culture if they are not Slavic?

    • @HeroManNick132
      @HeroManNick132 Год назад

      @@FreshVito_bg Поляците и украинците се държат точно както македонците с нас, за дето сме им били неславянски татаро-монголци, крадящи култура от тях, докато при руснаците там историята е, че са били фино-угринци.

  • @mariajoaoferrazdeabreu150
    @mariajoaoferrazdeabreu150 Год назад

    Congrats.! Great video

    • @hipnotycznaegosymulacja9569
      @hipnotycznaegosymulacja9569 Год назад

      👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍Russians are not Slavs, there are only 6% of Slavs in Russia,
      the rest are fino - ugers, tatars, caucasians, mongols, asians, etc.
      Russia - USSR created this lie for its own IMPERIAL purposes (that Russians are Slavs) to FALSE suck up to the Slavic nations in Eastern Europe, and then occupy, murder ☠☠☠☠, resettle to Siberia, rob, Russify, these countries under the guise of tz .
      "Slavic brotherhood".
      If you still think that the Russians are Slavs, then you have become a victim of hypocritical Russian perfidious, mean Russian propaganda. 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍

  • @eh8706
    @eh8706 Год назад +6

    Slavs are a linguistic group not ethnic. Their languages are similar but their ethnic origin is very diverse. There are no Slavic genes.

    • @dota2videoclips754
      @dota2videoclips754 Год назад

      Meanwhile Mongol-Germanic Pooles and Ukrop Caucasian-Turks claiming to be the purest Slavs

    • @lenjivko3227
      @lenjivko3227 Год назад +1

      WRONG!!! Serbs from Serbia ( I2 ) are fether and mother to all europeans ( all R /r1a and r1b/ ) and all Slavs too ( try to beth that vatican invented that name ), and all others are serbian brother from uncle!

    • @lenjivko3227
      @lenjivko3227 Год назад

      @nigga 🏳️‍🌈⃠ macedonian is south ex-serb and bulgarian is east ex-serb!

    • @lenjivko3227
      @lenjivko3227 Год назад

      @@dota2videoclips754 in the whole world and history after biblical flood all people can be only 2 things: 1) you are Serb ( or ex-serb ), 2) you are serbian brother from uncle! thats it! Amen/Amin!

    • @machinegewehrUIA
      @machinegewehrUIA Год назад

      @@lenjivko3227 пансербист вылез, а потом вы говорите, что никого не угнетали 🤣

  • @StuTun
    @StuTun Год назад +3

    Thanks for another great video. I was looking forward to you creating one about the Slavic flags and I'm sure there is enough super interesting information to produce another in more detail about some of the countries. I did also smile that you had managed to get your Portuguese tongue around pronouncing 'Republika Srpska' this time. Keep up the excellent work!

    • @hipnotycznaegosymulacja9569
      @hipnotycznaegosymulacja9569 Год назад

      👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍Russians are not Slavs, there are only 6% of Slavs in Russia,
      the rest are fino - ugers, tatars, caucasians, mongols, asians, etc.
      Russia - USSR created this lie for its own IMPERIAL purposes (that Russians are Slavs) to FALSE suck up to the Slavic nations in Eastern Europe, and then occupy, murder ☠☠☠☠, resettle to Siberia, rob, Russify, these countries under the guise of tz .
      "Slavic brotherhood".
      If you still think that the Russians are Slavs, then you have become a victim of hypocritical Russian perfidious, mean Russian propaganda.

  • @marcinkusmierzak991
    @marcinkusmierzak991 Год назад +4

    Poland also has a blue part on the flag that represents our reliable allies so it's very hard to see

  • @darioshub
    @darioshub Год назад +8

    I'm Croatian and I'm wondering now about one thing. Why do Paraguay and the Netherlands have these colors as well? Any good explanation?

    • @Harahvaiti
      @Harahvaiti Год назад +1

      Luxemburg also

    • @darioshub
      @darioshub Год назад

      ​@@Harahvaiti True

    • @lred1383
      @lred1383 Год назад +1

      the explanation is pretty much just that those colours look good together

    • @lordocas6778
      @lordocas6778 Год назад

      protože autor videa je blb

  • @johnhull6061
    @johnhull6061 Год назад +2

    Are you staying that all the Red White and Blue flags started with the Republic of the Netherlands? That’s very cool. I have often wondered why so many flags have all three colours

  • @-Ilya-
    @-Ilya- Год назад +6

    Greetings from Russia 🇷🇺

  • @RatkoAsanovic
    @RatkoAsanovic Год назад +3

    Also there is one thing that can be interesting for anyone reading the comments in here. According to the religion and mythology of old Slavs (pre Christian time when we all were pagan people who spoke the same language and believed in the same gods) colors on the Slav flags are chosen based on the gods of that time. I will take Russian for example:
    1. White color - the highest one representing the supreme god Svarog who ruled the world and everything in the world,
    2. Blue color - representing the god Perun the thunder maker who had the highest force in the world and,
    3. Red color - representing the red bearded god Vid who was our progenitor.
    Svarog had the son named Dažbog or Dabog, Dajbog (god of the Sun, Rain and Fire) whom Serbian people for example took as their highest or supreme deity. Name Dažbog or Dabog, Dajbog means (daž-bog, da-bog, daj-bog) "daž, da, daj = gives", "bog = god" so it is the god who gives. He gives the life on earth since he gives the sunlight as god of the sun. And old Slavs because of the great respect to those appearances they believed in the cult of sun, rain and fire since their entire survival was depending on them.
    Also it is believed that Dažbog or Dabog, Dajbog was the ancestor of the Russian people and all Slavs in general.
    Serbian people today have the flag that goes from the top: red, blue and white (inverted Russian flag) which means red bearded god Vid is on the top. And even today Serbian people also Bulgarian too are celebrating the day of Vidovdan (day of the god Vid celebrated every year at 28th of June).
    Also very important battle in Serbian history took place at the day of Vidovdan (28th June 1389) at Kosovo in place Gazimestan where Serbian warriors were in huge battle with Ottoman empire who wanted to conquer the historical Serbian land. At Gazimestan it is growing one endemic kind of flower - red peony. And it is believed it started growing red because of the spilled blood in the soil of Serbian warriors after the battle of Kosovo. So yet again red color from the red peony and read bearded god Vid can be connected together in this event happened at Vidovdan and why red color it is on the flag.
    Religion and mythology of old Slavs is really a fascinating and great one. They could be read as bedtime stories to children :grinning_face: Once Slavs or better said old Slavs were ONE people occupying huge territory and "modern" ages invented nations accompanied with greed and hunger for the power and started dividing once unified people into multiple nations. All in all Slavs no matter where, are the great people and personally I am beyond proud by being a Slav.

    • @bp9762
      @bp9762 Год назад

      Perun the thunder god is who the Bulgarian mountain of Pirin is named after.

    • @lordocas6778
      @lordocas6778 Год назад

      už nechlastej

  • @brunetka_361
    @brunetka_361 Год назад +2

    Well, you actually wrong about Russian flag. And the article in Wikipedia in English is not correct at all about it. It has one-sided not historical western opinion which says "it's because they used as an example a Dutch flag". NOPE.
    Russian national flag was white, blue and red already in 1693. It called The flag of Moscowian Tsar. It actually used to use before Peter the Great was even born. But it had a two-headed golden eagle with 3 crownes above. Later it was used oftenly too, but starting from 18 century the main flag was black-yellow-white flag of the Russian Empire(flag of the whole empire, not national). And the national flag was still white-blue and red.
    Also the meanings of the colours came from the title of the tsars : white is Belarus (White Russia), blue is Ukraine (Little Russia) and red is Great Russia. Also meanings by colours are: white is purity and perfection, blue is faith and loyalty, red is power and passion.

  • @andrzejbanas7261
    @andrzejbanas7261 Год назад +4

    Not all flags of Slavic countries use the so called ”panslavic” colours. So the whole talk on this subject makes no sense.

  • @papak5592
    @papak5592 Год назад +5

    actually gypsy serbian origin is in Istanbul, Mekka, Marrakech, Ankara, Tirana, Ulanbataar, New-Delhi and in all of Asia and Africa 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

    • @DušanMarinkovićmars202
      @DušanMarinkovićmars202 4 месяца назад

      A Bosnian Muslim tells us who is a Turk. We know who sold his faith for dinner . You have turkish faith, names and surenames. We have slavic.We beat turks , and kept our slavic ancestory.Other than such close DNA similarity R1a (Slavic) genom to other Slavic tribes, there are historical and traditional facts, that prove my point.Read and educate yourself before you write nonsense.The only truth is that Turks are of Serbian DNA today, many janissaries married Turkish sultan's daughters and Turkish women after retirement. Secondly, that Kemal Ataturk is a Turkified Serb, Macedonian whatever, Slav. Like the third rules of the wedding night, etc., are propaganda nonsense that the Vatican spread with Vienna and Berlin. Lying Turks, these white people today are not original Turks at all, the real Turks are Azeris. And men with black hair and white skin were residents of Helm, and now that you are comforting yourself with propaganda without evidence is your business. Your first lie is that they ruled Serbia for 500 years, but 350.But the Turks have nothing to do here, how many executed Bosnians (not all) who want to wash their face with dirty water from falsehoods and lies!

    • @DušanMarinkovićmars202
      @DušanMarinkovićmars202 4 месяца назад

      A Bosnian Muslim tells us who is a Turk. We know who sold his faith for dinner . You have turkish faith, names and surenames. We have slavic.We beat turks , and kept our slavic ancestory.Other than such close DNA similarity R1a (Slavic) genom to other Slavic tribes, there are historical and traditional facts, that prove my point.Read and educate yourself before you write nonsense.The only truth is that Turks are of Serbian DNA today, many janissaries married Turkish sultan's daughters and Turkish women after retirement. Secondly, that Kemal Ataturk is a Turkified Serb, Macedonian whatever, Slav. Like the third rules of the wedding night, etc., are propaganda nonsense that the Vatican spread with Vienna and Berlin. Lying Turks, these white people today are not original Turks at all, the real Turks are Azeris. And men with black hair and white skin were residents of Helm, and now that you are comforting yourself with propaganda without evidence is your business. Your first lie is that they ruled Serbia for 500 years, but 350.But the Turks have nothing to do here, how many executed Bosnians (not all) who want to wash their face with dirty water from falsehoods and lies!

    • @DušanMarinkovićmars202
      @DušanMarinkovićmars202 4 месяца назад

      A Bosnian Muslim tells us who is a Turk. We know who sold his faith for dinner . You have turkish faith, names and surenames. We have slavic.We beat turks , and kept our slavic ancestory.Other than such close DNA similarity R1a (Slavic) genom to other Slavic tribes, there are historical and traditional facts, that prove my point.Read and educate yourself before you write nonsense.The only truth is that Turks are of Serbian DNA today, many janissaries married Turkish sultan's daughters and Turkish women after retirement. Secondly, that Kemal Ataturk is a Turkified Serb, Macedonian whatever, Slav. Like the third rules of the wedding night, etc., are propaganda nonsense that the Vatican spread with Vienna and Berlin. Lying Turks, these white people today are not original Turks at all, the real Turks are Azeris. And men with black hair and white skin were residents of Helm, and now that you are comforting yourself with propaganda without evidence is your business. Your first lie is that they ruled Serbia for 500 years, but 350.But the Turks have nothing to do here, how many executed Bosnians (not all) who want to wash their face with dirty water from falsehoods and lies!

  • @omnislashtuzla3654
    @omnislashtuzla3654 Год назад +2

    Translation: ho are you? What are you? Did you finish linguistics? And the history of the Slavs? Or did you make a video from clips of many on this topic.

  • @moscowcowboy_13
    @moscowcowboy_13 Год назад +9

    Great video! Clearly all the countries went through some kind of reset in the mid 1800s, all the big fires and destroyed cities around the world happened at the same time. Strange that all these countries were trying to figure out their flags, kind of like a homework assignment for members of the same state, like a teambuilding exercise.

    • @hipnotycznaegosymulacja9569
      @hipnotycznaegosymulacja9569 Год назад

      👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍Russians are not Slavs, there are only 6% of Slavs in Russia,
      the rest are fino - ugers, tatars, caucasians, mongols, asians, etc.
      Russia - USSR created this lie for its own IMPERIAL purposes (that Russians are Slavs) to FALSE suck up to the Slavic nations in Eastern Europe, and then occupy, murder ☠☠☠☠, resettle to Siberia, rob, Russify, these countries under the guise of tz .
      "Slavic brotherhood".
      If you still think that the Russians are Slavs, then you have become a victim of hypocritical Russian perfidious, mean Russian propaganda.

    • @krystofviktora1211
      @krystofviktora1211 Год назад +1

      The biggest start of it is I thing the Czech National Revival, it started because of the Industrial Revolution, people in Czech lands spoke Czech only in some villages and most people spoke German in bigger cities, but when people started moving from to Prague etc. they wanted to speak Czech again

    • @dalimillazan2877
      @dalimillazan2877 10 месяцев назад

      It all happened in the same time because until end of 18.century, there was no nationalism, so yeah nationalism is the reason it all happened so suddenly, its like inventing a wheel lets say. Historians still dont know who why "nationalism" happened all so sudden and for what reason

  • @archstanton6102
    @archstanton6102 Год назад +8

    Have to follow this with the West Africa colours and what they mean next.
    Red = Blood spilt in gaining independence
    Black = the people
    Yellow = the Sun
    Green = the Land

    • @General.Knowledge
      @General.Knowledge  Год назад +4

      West-African + Pan African colours are also on my list!

    • @archstanton6102
      @archstanton6102 Год назад

      @General.Knowledge Mary thanks

    • @hipnotycznaegosymulacja9569
      @hipnotycznaegosymulacja9569 Год назад

      👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍Russians are not Slavs, there are only 6% of Slavs in Russia,
      the rest are fino - ugers, tatars, caucasians, mongols, asians, etc.
      Russia - USSR created this lie for its own IMPERIAL purposes (that Russians are Slavs) to FALSE suck up to the Slavic nations in Eastern Europe, and then occupy, murder ☠☠☠☠, resettle to Siberia, rob, Russify, these countries under the guise of tz .
      "Slavic brotherhood".
      If you still think that the Russians are Slavs, then you have become a victim of hypocritical Russian perfidious, mean Russian propaganda. 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍

  • @kurtshirvinski836
    @kurtshirvinski836 Год назад +2

    Hard times create strong Slavs, strong Slavs create hard times. Repeat. We're a simple people

  • @nickdirtenlog8998
    @nickdirtenlog8998 Год назад +6

    I think Sorbian flag also does count, located in eastern Germany, using the tricolor red white and blue

  • @TooGumbica
    @TooGumbica Год назад +6

    Slovenia and Slovakia have exact same meaning in origin. Its just different conjugation / word change. Example "rěka" - "river, "rěčka" -"small river", "rěkica" -"small river", "rěčica" - "small river"... It just depends where you are from and what dialect you speak.

    • @theslebzee
      @theslebzee Год назад

      The same thing is in russian, река - river, речка - small river

    • @chodipesekokolo00
      @chodipesekokolo00 Год назад

      @@theslebzee zajímavé , česky - řeka/река/river - říčka/речка/small river + potok, potůček/ручей

    • @makavelimaka8035
      @makavelimaka8035 Год назад

      Actually Slovenia, Slovakia and Czechia were one nation later divided in history. Real SLOVENI not fake SLOVANI or SLAVS. First was Karantania- Slovenian ancestors, first independent Slavic state , that later grew into Samo's kingdom and later into Great Moravia.

    • @JaPakaj
      @JaPakaj Год назад +1

      @@makavelimaka8035 Carantania came after Samo's Kingdom and was never part of Great Moravia that also came later.

    • @makavelimaka8035
      @makavelimaka8035 Год назад

      @@JaPakaj What? Karantania was already first mentioned in 568 AD while Samo's kingdom became to be in 623 AD. Great Moravia 9th century and incorporated various territories, including parts of what was previously Karantania.

  • @karszunowicz
    @karszunowicz Год назад +1

    Nice video! Would love to hear more about other slavic countries though.

    • @hipnotycznaegosymulacja9569
      @hipnotycznaegosymulacja9569 Год назад

      👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍Russians are not Slavs, there are only 6% of Slavs in Russia,
      the rest are fino - ugers, tatars, caucasians, mongols, asians, etc.
      Russia - USSR created this lie for its own IMPERIAL purposes (that Russians are Slavs) to FALSE suck up to the Slavic nations in Eastern Europe, and then occupy, murder ☠☠☠☠, resettle to Siberia, rob, Russify, these countries under the guise of tz .
      "Slavic brotherhood".
      If you still think that the Russians are Slavs, then you have become a victim of hypocritical Russian perfidious, mean Russian propaganda.

  • @jonomobono3223
    @jonomobono3223 Год назад +3

    Croatian DNA results:
    R1a (slavic) + I2 (pre-european)
    Gypsy-serbian DNA:
    E1b1b (berber) + J (turkish) 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

    • @DušanMarinkovićmars202
      @DušanMarinkovićmars202 4 месяца назад

      A Bosnian Muslim tells us who is a Turk. We know who sold his faith for dinner . You have turkish faith, names and surenames. We have slavic.We beat turks , and kept our slavic ancestory.Other than such close DNA similarity R1a (Slavic) genom to other Slavic tribes, there are historical and traditional facts, that prove my point.Read and educate yourself before you write nonsense.The only truth is that Turks are of Serbian DNA today, many janissaries married Turkish sultan's daughters and Turkish women after retirement. Secondly, that Kemal Ataturk is a Turkified Serb, Macedonian whatever, Slav. Like the third rules of the wedding night, etc., are propaganda nonsense that the Vatican spread with Vienna and Berlin. Lying Turks, these white people today are not original Turks at all, the real Turks are Azeris. And men with black hair and white skin were residents of Helm, and now that you are comforting yourself with propaganda without evidence is your business. Your first lie is that they ruled Serbia for 500 years, but 350.But the Turks have nothing to do here, how many executed Bosnians (not all) who want to wash their face with dirty water from falsehoods and lies!

  • @lordhenrywotton95
    @lordhenrywotton95 Год назад +4

    Are you aware of the influence of medieval livery colours on the modern horizontal tricolour?
    The common practice is to put the colour of the charge as a stripe above the colour of the field on the banner. Eg Germany (Black eagle, with red claws, on a gold field), Poland (White eagle on a red field), Slovakia (White cross on a blue and red field). No doubt there are exceptions though!

  • @omgnelonr1631
    @omgnelonr1631 Год назад +5

    It's a shame that Bosnia didn't use these colours. I would understand if they kept the flag we used after the Yugoslav war (inspired by the kingdom of Bosnia) but our modern flag is just made to look similar to EU ignoring our slavic heritage and heritage in general.

    • @GGTanguera
      @GGTanguera 11 месяцев назад

      Or IKEA flag 😅

    • @InteN66
      @InteN66 11 месяцев назад

      Because Bosnian serbs and croats wanted new flag and new flag was made to represent all 3 "nationalities" inside on country

    • @МаринаМилованова-м3ы
      @МаринаМилованова-м3ы 10 месяцев назад

      Bosnians are not slav 😉

    • @InteN66
      @InteN66 10 месяцев назад +1

      @@МаринаМилованова-м3ы Yes they are dummy. Funyy thing is from all Southeastern European countries (Balkan) Bosnia is only country on Balkan which has dna composition of 50 % Slavic , other countries are below 50.

    • @omgnelonr1631
      @omgnelonr1631 10 месяцев назад

      @@МаринаМилованова-м3ы You are historically illiterate 😉

  • @penzlic
    @penzlic Год назад +2

    Bosnia had many flags during the war (each ethnicity had one), and when the peace broke out, everyone wanted that their flag be the one to represent whole country. That (of course) was impossible, and even some well design proposals were discarted with (i shit you not) objection like "why is MY colour at the bottom" or "why is THEIR crest on the right",
    "Naturally" high representative for BiH had to step in and chose flag submitted by Mladen Kolobarić, making it probably only flag in Europe that is simultaneosly represent country AND don't represent people.

  • @babschampagne8377
    @babschampagne8377 Год назад +21

    There is also Kashubians, a separate ethnic and linguistic group of West Slavs in Poland. They use a yellow and black flag. Polish red and white has nothing to do with the panslavic, cause it's a separate origin: from the red and white coat of arms (white eagle on the red background)

  • @hanselpollack4075
    @hanselpollack4075 Год назад +4

    Referring to previous video about the names of USA states, and territories: There is a current move to separate a large part of Oregon, and conjoin it to Idaho. So far, both Oregon and Idaho are in agreement. However, it will take an act of Congress to finalize. For decades Californians have had efforts to divide the state into North California, and South California. Although, there are many enthusiasts, it never amounts to a real possibility. When West Virginia won its battle to become a separate state, due to taxation, and division of financial resources it also became one of the poorest states in the Union….a cautionary tale, that causes sound- minded people to pause.

  • @Emanon...
    @Emanon... Год назад +3

    Except the list of Slavic countries without panslavic colours is longer:
    Poland, Ukraine, Bulgaria, Bosnia, Macedonia, Belarus
    And arguably Romania, Moldova and Albania.

    • @hipnotycznaegosymulacja9569
      @hipnotycznaegosymulacja9569 Год назад

      👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍Russians are not Slavs, there are only 6% of Slavs in Russia,
      the rest are fino - ugers, tatars, caucasians, mongols, asians, etc.
      Russia - USSR created this lie for its own IMPERIAL purposes (that Russians are Slavs) to FALSE suck up to the Slavic nations in Eastern Europe, and then occupy, murder ☠☠☠☠, resettle to Siberia, rob, Russify, these countries under the guise of tz .
      "Slavic brotherhood".
      If you still think that the Russians are Slavs, then you have become a victim of hypocritical Russian perfidious, mean Russian propaganda. 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍

    • @HeroManNick132
      @HeroManNick132 Год назад +1

      North Macedonia, Bosnia and Herzegovina*

    • @elazargoldmann2183
      @elazargoldmann2183 Год назад

      u ukranian. Cuz only they mention this fairytale

    • @elazargoldmann2183
      @elazargoldmann2183 Год назад +3

      @@hipnotycznaegosymulacja9569 u ukranian. Cuz only they mention this fairytale

    • @dota2videoclips754
      @dota2videoclips754 Год назад +1

      @@hipnotycznaegosymulacja9569 Turk Ukrops claiming to be the purest Slavs 🤦‍♂️💩

  • @sanwomashi1751
    @sanwomashi1751 Год назад +2

    Poland - white Eagle on red field before changed to white and red simple flag - white is free , clear soul ( free, strong like eagle ) - red blood - give during fight for freedom

  • @player276
    @player276 Год назад +3

    The whole "Slav" thing isn't really controversial and is pretty established. As is one of the suggestions, it means "People of the word". While the word itself can be debated, the broader context of these languages and how other words are used makes it pretty clear. The Slavic word for Germans for example is some form of "Neimetz", which translates to roughly "people that don't speak".
    English word for Slave does indeed come from "Slav" (Not the other way around as the video suggests at one point). This was the result of the Slavic slave trade which is about as studied as unicorns, but in recent decades academics started to seriously look into it as a massive catalyst for the Atlantic Slave trade and foundation of Western European economy.

    • @andreyrolev9827
      @andreyrolev9827 10 месяцев назад

      Здравствуйте, объясните пожалуйста, что Вы имеет в виду, когда говорите: "Славянская работорговля" (Slavic slave) ?

  • @papak5592
    @papak5592 Год назад +4

    LETS BE HONEST: SERBIAN GRANDMOTHERS were 500 years long under TURKISH, ARAB, AFRICAN and ALBANIAN pashas and before that under MONGOLS, BULGARIANS and AVARS 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
    Serbian ancestors are defintely in Istanbul, Mekka, Ulanbataar, Marrakech and in whole Afrika and Asia 😂😂😂😂😂
    Serbian Genetics dont lie:
    E1b1b (berber) + J (turkish)

    • @DušanMarinkovićmars202
      @DušanMarinkovićmars202 4 месяца назад

      A Bosnian Muslim tells us who is a Turk. We know who sold his faith for dinner . You have turkish faith, names and surenames. We have slavic.We beat turks , and kept our slavic ancestory.Other than such close DNA similarity R1a (Slavic) genom to other Slavic tribes, there are historical and traditional facts, that prove my point.Read and educate yourself before you write nonsense.The only truth is that Turks are of Serbian DNA today, many janissaries married Turkish sultan's daughters and Turkish women after retirement. Secondly, that Kemal Ataturk is a Turkified Serb, Macedonian whatever, Slav. Like the third rules of the wedding night, etc., are propaganda nonsense that the Vatican spread with Vienna and Berlin. Lying Turks, these white people today are not original Turks at all, the real Turks are Azeris. And men with black hair and white skin were residents of Helm, and now that you are comforting yourself with propaganda without evidence is your business. Your first lie is that they ruled Serbia for 500 years, but 350.But the Turks have nothing to do here, how many executed Bosnians (not all) who want to wash their face with dirty water from falsehoods and lies!

  • @drazenbicanic3590
    @drazenbicanic3590 5 месяцев назад

    The colors of the national flags are mainly a derivation of the colors of the flag of the French Revolution, Liberty-fraternity-equality.

  • @alexander1498
    @alexander1498 Год назад +3

    For the bulgarian flag - it is about symbolism. White for freedom, green for the nature and her beauty and red for the blood of the fallen heros in the wars for freedom.

  • @rehanhossainalim6038
    @rehanhossainalim6038 Год назад +3

    Video idea: a video about autonomous regions and overseas territories!

    • @hipnotycznaegosymulacja9569
      @hipnotycznaegosymulacja9569 Год назад

      👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍Russians are not Slavs, there are only 6% of Slavs in Russia,
      the rest are fino - ugers, tatars, caucasians, mongols, asians, etc.
      Russia - USSR created this lie for its own IMPERIAL purposes (that Russians are Slavs) to FALSE suck up to the Slavic nations in Eastern Europe, and then occupy, murder ☠☠☠☠, resettle to Siberia, rob, Russify, these countries under the guise of tz .
      "Slavic brotherhood".
      If you still think that the Russians are Slavs, then you have become a victim of hypocritical Russian perfidious, mean Russian propaganda.

  • @sviatshalanin3390
    @sviatshalanin3390 4 месяца назад

    will you do something about other Slavic countries?

  • @aceflashheart2523
    @aceflashheart2523 Год назад +8

    Please make a video about flags of the Nordic countries. 🇩🇰🇫🇮🇮🇸🇳🇴🇸🇪🇦🇽🇫🇴

    • @Uran_KH-98
      @Uran_KH-98 Год назад +1

      "🇬🇧" hmmm.... SUS 🌚

    • @czaszaprzeszly371
      @czaszaprzeszly371 Год назад +1

      🇪🇪🥺

    • @cinderellaandstepsisters
      @cinderellaandstepsisters Год назад

      ​@@czaszaprzeszly371 Estonia is a Baltic country.

    • @igormelnichenko
      @igormelnichenko Год назад

      ​@@cinderellaandstepsisters Estonians are Baltic Finns.

    • @cinderellaandstepsisters
      @cinderellaandstepsisters 10 месяцев назад

      D​@@igormelnichenko
      Finland,🇫🇮is a Nordic country culturally, politically, economically, culturally religiously and geographically with Sweden 🇸🇪 Norway 🇸🇯 Denmark 🇩🇰 and Iceland 🇮🇸
      Finland was never a part of Soviet union. Never a communist country and never an eastern bloc country.

  • @ImStevan
    @ImStevan Год назад +6

    1:15 there are more groups than just those that have their own countries, such as sorbs or rusyns

    • @hipnotycznaegosymulacja9569
      @hipnotycznaegosymulacja9569 Год назад

      👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍Russians are not Slavs, there are only 6% of Slavs in Russia,
      the rest are fino - ugers, tatars, caucasians, mongols, asians, etc.
      Russia - USSR created this lie for its own IMPERIAL purposes (that Russians are Slavs) to FALSE suck up to the Slavic nations in Eastern Europe, and then occupy, murder ☠☠☠☠, resettle to Siberia, rob, Russify, these countries under the guise of tz .
      "Slavic brotherhood".
      If you still think that the Russians are Slavs, then you have become a victim of hypocritical Russian perfidious, mean Russian propaganda. 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍

  • @przemysawdata6246
    @przemysawdata6246 10 месяцев назад +1

    Recently, panslavic colors also could be found at Jamaican flag. They had proportions like Colombian flag, and at the widest, white stripe there was a crocodile (possibly a cayman) depicted. BTW, since 2011 Jamaica is only country without red, white and blue color at the flag - before 2011 they shared this "feature" with Lybia and Mauritania.

  • @KommandantGSR
    @KommandantGSR Год назад +3

    Slavic nations: similar flags
    Poland & Indonesia: Confused alot of western people

  • @starsky43
    @starsky43 Год назад +3

    Belarusian and Bulgarian flags have same colours (white, green and red), by the way

    • @HeroManNick132
      @HeroManNick132 Год назад

      But the free Belarusian flag is just white, red, white like the free Russian flag which like white, light blue, white.

  • @councilofknowledge
    @councilofknowledge Год назад

    I started my channel after being inspired by you! awesome video!

    • @hipnotycznaegosymulacja9569
      @hipnotycznaegosymulacja9569 Год назад

      👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍Russians are not Slavs, there are only 6% of Slavs in Russia,
      the rest are fino - ugers, tatars, caucasians, mongols, asians, etc.
      Russia - USSR created this lie for its own IMPERIAL purposes (that Russians are Slavs) to FALSE suck up to the Slavic nations in Eastern Europe, and then occupy, murder ☠☠☠☠, resettle to Siberia, rob, Russify, these countries under the guise of tz .
      "Slavic brotherhood".
      If you still think that the Russians are Slavs, then you have become a victim of hypocritical Russian perfidious, mean Russian propaganda. 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍

  • @YamnayaSintash
    @YamnayaSintash 10 месяцев назад +4

    S L A V A R U S S I A

  • @MrToradragon
    @MrToradragon Год назад +4

    The tricolour flag of Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia is basically Czech tricolour that was created by adding blue stripe under original bicolour. Possible explanation could be that those three colours are found on coat of arms of Bohemia and Moravia. Bohemian bicolour is derived from it's coat of arm. White/silver lion, and red background. Moravian coat of arm cosists od red-silver eagle and blue background. Those two combined could easily form WRB tricolour thus there was no need for any change.
    As well the current flag was result of contest held early after WWI and many of suggestions were not even using all Slavic colours, many had represented parts of Czechoslovakia by stars and so on. There was even proposal inspired by flag of Texas and few by old flag of Ireland or Alabama, but with added stars. There were as well some proposals that had used black colour (reference to the Hussite movement). So the current flag is more likely result of happy coincidence.

    • @leoprg5330
      @leoprg5330 Год назад

      We don't talk about Protectorate here, imagine western countries collectively deciding to cut part of Ukraine and giving it too Russia to keep their mouth shout.

    • @MrToradragon
      @MrToradragon Год назад

      @@leoprg5330 What does quite probable explanation of already mentioned protectorate flag to do with current situation in Ukraine?

  • @branislavkutnik5644
    @branislavkutnik5644 Год назад

    wonderfull video :)

  • @Koko-cy4ff
    @Koko-cy4ff Год назад +7

    Back in school, I remember being told the green in the Bulgarian flag was chosen to represent the vast beauty of nature in the country, which many revolutionists who fought against Ottoman oppression described in their writings. Whether this is based in evidence or not, I am not certain. The rest is probably as you described it.

    • @heidimaras8328
      @heidimaras8328 Год назад +1

      The green is recognising islam😊😊

    • @RositsaPetrovarjp7
      @RositsaPetrovarjp7 Год назад

      @@heidimaras8328 Nope. Bulgarians were were being killed by the Muslim Ottomans for 500 years. Green is actually the colour of the Eastern Roman Empire

    • @DutchCake
      @DutchCake Год назад +1

      ​@@heidimaras8328 Green is the nature that we have wdym??

  • @SurgicalStrike41
    @SurgicalStrike41 Год назад +3

    1848 was generally an insanely chaotic year in most of Europe. It was filled with rebellions, many of which were nationalist revolts. It's no coincidence that the Pan-Slavic tricolor was adopted so widely in that year.

    • @alh6255
      @alh6255 Год назад

      But these 3 colors were not adopted by countries with a long and rich history of statehood, which had their own old state flags, such as Poland (whose flag comes from the colors of the Piast dynasty, which founded the Polish state in the mid-10th century). This flag (white and red) was the flag of the Kingdom of Poland from the 10th century, and also gave colors to the flag of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (the real union of the Kingdom of Poland and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, which lasted about 300 years, until the end of the 18th century). In 1848, the Polish flag was one of the oldest nationa/statel flags in Europe (and still is). Although in 1848 Poland had been occupied by Russia, Prussia and Austria for about 50 years, there was a Polish Kingdom to some extent independent of Russia (however, in a personal union with Russia due to the tsar). This kingdom obviously used the traditional Polish flag (red and white)

  • @Zenon-x3h
    @Zenon-x3h 10 месяцев назад +2

    Bulgarian flag has the same russian flag but Bulgarian is green and Russian blue but its really the same

  • @abdullahplaysroblox1
    @abdullahplaysroblox1 Год назад +4

    Fun fact:Slovenia has love in its name :)

    • @dimonspirow6830
      @dimonspirow6830 Год назад

      Točno! I himn, zovučy sve narody ko lùbove i družbe😍

    • @abdullahplaysroblox1
      @abdullahplaysroblox1 Год назад +1

      @@dimonspirow6830 I didn't know that about the anthem

    • @dimonspirow6830
      @dimonspirow6830 Год назад

      @@abdullahplaysroblox1 Jeste tam taky stix .A još proponuje'se za ovo vina wypity. Tako-to! A wy tu stalno perečite'se, koý su slaváne, a koý nem😝

  • @niekhofman428
    @niekhofman428 Год назад +7

    And Where does the Russian flag come from? That’s right!🇳🇱

    • @hipnotycznaegosymulacja9569
      @hipnotycznaegosymulacja9569 Год назад

      👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍Russians are not Slavs, there are only 6% of Slavs in Russia,
      the rest are fino - ugers, tatars, caucasians, mongols, asians, etc.
      Russia - USSR created this lie for its own IMPERIAL purposes (that Russians are Slavs) to FALSE suck up to the Slavic nations in Eastern Europe, and then occupy, murder ☠☠☠☠, resettle to Siberia, rob, Russify, these countries under the guise of tz .
      "Slavic brotherhood".
      If you still think that the Russians are Slavs, then you have become a victim of hypocritical Russian perfidious, mean Russian propaganda. 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍

    • @igormelnichenko
      @igormelnichenko Год назад

      We destroy ruzzia

    • @EcoZen24
      @EcoZen24 Год назад +2

      Он у нас такой 🇷🇺 за долго до того как Петр I уехал в Голландию

    • @dota2videoclips754
      @dota2videoclips754 Год назад +3

      Russian flag already use the white, red & blue color in the 15th century

    • @machinegewehrUIA
      @machinegewehrUIA Год назад

      @@EcoZen24 уехал?🤔 Ему корабль голландец строил, он у него и спросил цвета его страны, изначально ваш флаг был флагом флота.