It is a modification of the 1951 flag used while the country was a republic of the Soviet Union. Changes made to the Soviet-era flag were the removal of communist symbols – the hammer and sickle and the red star – as well as the reversal of the colours in the ornament pattern.

The white-red-white flag [a] is a historical flag used by the Belarusian Democratic Republic in 1918 before Western Belarus was occupied by the Second Polish Republic and Eastern Belarus was occupied by the Bolsheviks (two years later becoming the Belarusian SSR).

All flags of the constituent republics of the Soviet Union did not bear the hammer and sickle on their reverse side. 1991–1995 State flag and civil ensign; today the white-red-white flag is used in opposition to the current government

horizontally striped red-green national flag with a vertical stripe of red and white at the hoist. Its width-to-length ratio is 1 to 2. The Slavic peoples of what is now Belarus were in the past ruled by Prussia, Poland, Lithuania, and Russia.

History of the Flag of Belarus . Before the Soviet-era, there were several flags used by Belarus during the early 20 th century. Its first flag was in plain white connotating the nation’s name: “White Russia”. A red horizontal stripe was later added through the center of the flag. An all-red flag of the Lithuanian-Byelorussian SSR was ...

Nov 24, 2024 · In 1918, the Belarusian People's Republic (BNR) was proclaimed, and its symbols became the coat of arms ("Pahonia") and the white-red-white flag. On August 11, the newspaper Svobodnaya Belarus published the first official description of the flag and coat of arms.

Jun 3, 2023 · The National Flag of the Republic of Belarus is a rectangular color cloth consisting of two longitudinal stripes: red upper stripe and green lower stripe that are two-thirds and one-third of the flag width respectively.

The history of the flag of Belarus. In 1991, the state symbols of Belarus were approved: the white-red-white flag and the Pogonya coat of arms.

This was the flag of Belarus on no less than three separate occasions: 1918-1939 (West Belarus), 1942-1944 (Nazi-occupied Belarus) and 1991-1995 (post-Soviet, pre-referendum Belarus). Bonus Fact: Green is the colour of hope in Belarus, as well as spring, revival, forests and fields.

The old Bielorussian colours have always been the white and red and in fact the flag of the first independent government of a "Byelorussian People's Republic" (in exile in Vilnius from 1919-1925) was a white flag with a red horizontal band of red, the central red stripe being bordered by a thin black stripe.