Each state has its own symbols that carry some meaning. The flag, along with other signs, symbolizes the independence of the state and the people.
Official history broadcasts that until the seventeenth century there was no state flag in the Russian Empire. In all countries that had a fleet, ships were required to sail with their country's flag raised. And when the Russian fleet appeared, it was necessary to raise the flag, as in other countries. Then they came up with the tricolor, which some now call the "Vlasov flag". Warships sailed under it for thirty years. But after the adoption of the decree that military ships sail under a different flag - Andreevsky, only civilian ships began to use the tricolor.
In the nineteenth century, it was proposed to choose the colors of the Russian flag in accordance with the coat of arms. After imperial approval for several decades, the black-yellow-white flag became the state flag. But not having received public approval, it was changed to a white-blue-red tricolor. And the former flag has since become the flag of the Romanov dynasty.
Flag of the Russian Federation
After the collapse of the Soviet Union, the tricolor became the flag of the Russian Federation, the same as it was duringRussian Empire. At the end of the year 2000, a law on the national flag was adopted, defining the rules for its use and legal status.
Vlasov flag
On the Internet you can find this name of the state Russian flag. So it began to be called in connection with the events during the Great Patriotic War.
After the overthrow of the monarchical system, the tricolor was changed to the red flag of the RSFSR, and later - the USSR. The flag of the Vlasov army appeared when separate traitorous formations, who decided to join the Nazi army in order to fight the Soviet regime, united in the so-called ROA, the Russian liberation army. It was headed by A. Vlasov, a man who enjoyed the confidence of the Kremlin. However, having been captured, after some time he decided to start fighting the Soviet regime, becoming a traitor to his homeland.
Traitor flag
A huge number of Russian people lived in inhuman conditions, slowly dying. The Nazis offered them an alternative to these conditions - joining the ROA, and some people, unable to endure any longer, went over to the side of the enemy. They were called Vlasovites.
Becoming under the flag of the Vlasov army, people not only avoided starvation. Among them were many officers who believed in the idea that, thanks to the fascist army, they could overthrow the Bolshevik system.
However, this idea turned out to be not quite the one they followed, because the methods of fighting the Stalinist regime turned, in fact, into a betrayal of their homeland. Therefore, the plans could not be implemented, since the initial betrayal made the "rainbow" ideas flawed. This is why the Russian flag (Vlasov) is sometimes associated with betrayal.
Vlasov wanted to take advantage of the Nazis, and the Nazis took advantage of him. When it was necessary for them, they gave him the freedom to form their so-called army. However, when he entered into polemics with the Germans and somehow disagreed with them, his ROA ceased to receive support for further agitation, and the Nazis sent the army solely for their own purposes.
Vlasov was handed over to the Soviet Union on May 5, 1945 by the Americans. And fifteen months later he was executed for treason.
What should be the flag of the Russian Federation
Some Russians, referring to the "bad past" of the white-blue-red tricolor, are in favor of changing the Russian flag to the flag of the Romanov dynasty, considering it "more Russian" than the Vlasov flag. Russian flag photo:
Initially, the colors of the flag, as far as we know, did not mean anything specific. But later they made sense for the Russian people.
This is what the stripes meant:
- white - freedom and independence;
- blue - the color of Our Lady;
- red - sovereignty.
Today the meanings of the colors of the flag are described as follows:
- white - peace, purity, perfection;
- blue - fidelity and faith;
- red - strength, energy, blood shed for the Motherland.
Sois it worth calling the symbol of Russia the Vlasov flag because of a small number of people who got confused during the Great Patriotic War and became traitors? After all, the tricolor has been used in Russia for several centuries.
