Officially, the tricolor in the Russian Liberation Army and the Committee for the Liberation of the Peoples of Russia was not used until about January 1945, when it was finally allowed by the German command.
It should still be noted that the Russian tricolor and its variations have been used by individual collaborators up to this point - both officially and not. The use of the tricolor was recorded at the parade of the 1st Guards Brigade of the ROA in Pskov on June 22, 1943, where the flag was carried by its chief of staff, former colonel of the White Army K.G. Kromiadi. Also, the tricolor was used on the badges of the soldiers of the "Russian National Army" and on the chevrons of the soldiers of the "Russian National People's Army", who, nevertheless, were headed by White emigres and included a significant number of representatives of the White emigration. The tricolor, with the St. Andrew's cross crossing it, was used as a symbol of Russian SS pupils, and the Russian national flag itself was used in their camp in Troppau.
The unofficial use of the tricolor (as, for example, at the parade in Pskov) was rather a manifestation of their own nationalist ideas, the desire of the collaborators to show that they were not just German puppets.
But, nevertheless, the use of the tricolor was not welcomed by party functionaries. As one of the largest researchers of the Vlasov movement, Sven Steenberg, writes, the artist A.N. Rodzevich was involved in the creation of the ROA symbolism by the Vlasovites, who drew 9 sketches with a predominance of the colors of the traditional Russian tricolor. However, when they received approval from the Imperial Ministry for the Occupied Eastern Territories, Rosenberg personally crossed out all nine, after which the sketches were returned, to which General Vlasov said: “I would have left it - the Russian flag crossed out by the Germans for fear of him ". Then General V.F.Malyshkin suggested using the St. Andrew's cross, and the sketch, which eventually received Rosenberg's approval, was a blue St. Andrew's cross on a white field. Subsequently, the St. Andrew's shield with a red edging became the symbol of the ROA. Later, the Andreevsky flag became the flag of the Committee for the Liberation of the Peoples of Russia. Even restrictions on the use of national symbols frustrated collaborators in the hopes that the Germans would help them in creating a new independent Russian statehood.
The Vlasovites began to use the tricolors en masse in May 1945, when they opposed the Germans and took part in the Prague Uprising on the side of the Czechs. The use of the tricolor by the Vlasovites was then recorded both in the photo and in the video.
In principle, one should not draw direct parallels between the modern flag of Russia and the use of the tricolor in the ROA, because these phenomena are nevertheless connected only by the fact that for Russians the white-blue-red flag was then and is now one of the symbols of historical Russia. The fact that it was used by those Russians who fought on the side of Germany against the USSR shows only the deep tragedy of those people and their deceptive hopes and belief that they are the ones who are fighting for Russia, that they are real Russians.
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Brochure KONR, 1944, - the Committee for the Liberation of the Peoples of Russia, - a political body created with the participation of the authorities of Nazi Germany to overthrow the existing political system in the USSR and uniting the Russians and a number of national organizations operating in the territories controlled by Nazi Germany.
Recently, in view of the extremely negative attitude of Russian society towards the so-called Vlasov army, an ideological movement began to separate it from its flag - the state flag of the Russian Federation, known as white-blue-red. The Russian Liberation Army, ROA is the historically established name of the armed forces of the Committee for the Liberation of the Peoples of Russia (KONR), who fought on the side of the Third Reich against the USSR, as well as the totality of the majority of Russian anti-Soviet units and subunits from Russian collaborators in the Wehrmacht in 1943-1944, formed various German military structures (the headquarters of the SS Troops, etc.) during the Great Patriotic War, headed by the famous traitor General A.A. Vlasov. As a flag, she used the flag with the St.Andrew's Cross, as well as the Russian tricolor, which was documented in the footage of the parade of the 1st Guards Brigade of the ROA in Pskov on June 22, 1943 and in the photo chronicle of the Vlasovites' formation in Münsingen. The use of the Russian tricolor in the ROA units is confirmed by one of their marching songs - the so-called "March of the Russian Liberation Army":
We are walking, a tricolor flag is above us.
We walk through our native fields.
Our motive is picked up by the winds
And they carry them to the Moscow domes.
And now, when everything was established long ago and accurately, absurd statements like these suddenly began to appear: It is reliably known that the Germans banned the use of the white-blue-red three-stripe flag when forming such units, clearly fearing Russian national symbols. These data can be gleaned from the memoirs of V. Shtrik-Shtrikfeldt "Against Stalin and Hitler", a Russian German attached to A.A. Vlasov: "Gradually, all the so-called" national military units "in the German army received badges with the national colors of their peoples ... Only the largest people - the Russians - were denied this. This question urgently demanded a solution. But here, too, difficulties arose. Historical Russian national colors - white-blue-red - were banned. "(Russian flags during the Second World War)
To improve visibility, the flag is artificially colored. 
Along with these data, the German writer Sven Steenberg argued that the flag of the ROA was Andreevsky. The ROA sleeve chevron was a St. Andrew's shield with a red piping. The photographs of the famous Prague meeting of the KONR on November 14, 1944, clearly show that the stage is decorated with two huge banners: the Nazi flag with a swastika and the St. Andrew's flag. There is an opinion that the flag of the ROA was also a white-blue-red flag, but it was banned by the Germans. The Russian artist A.N. Rodzevich was involved in the development of the ROA symbolism. He made nine sketches, all of which were dominated by the colors of the old Russian flag - white, blue and red. The sketches were submitted to the Imperial Ministry for the Occupied Eastern Territories for approval. Rosenberg personally crossed out all nine, after which the sketches came back, prompting Vlasov's bitter remark: "I would have left it - the Russian flag crossed out by the Germans for fear of him." Then Malyshkin suggested using the St. Andrew's cross, and the sketch, which eventually received Rosenberg's approval, was a blue St. Andrew's cross on a white field. On the footage of the parade of the 1st Guards brigade of the ROA in Pskov on June 22, 1943, there is a white-blue-red flag. But there the white-blue-red flag was used as a symbol of the Russian people, Russia and the White Army.(Shteenberg S. General Vlasov. - M .: Eksmo, 2005)
So the Germans banned the tricolor because they didn't like it, these hackers say. But besides the ROA, Hitler also had other units of Soviet traitors.
Russian National People's Army (RNNA) (Sonderverband "Graukopf" ("Gray Head" Special Unit))- an armed paramilitary formation formed in the occupied territory of the USSR and taking part in World War II on the side of the Third Reich. 
Lieutenant V.A.Ressler, Colonel K.G. Kromiadi and senior physician Razumovsky. Osintorf, 1942 Ressler and Kromiadi are dressed in Soviet uniforms with RNNA shoulder straps and tricolor cockades.
“For the cockade of the headdress, the colors of the Russian national flag were taken - white-blue-red. For lack of a suitable material, they were made of cloth and cardboard. Of course, our flag was also white-blue-red ", - writes in his book "For the land, for the freedom!" Colonel of the White Army K.G. Kromiadi.
"Green Special Purpose Army" - 1st Russian National Army - "Russland" Division- a military formation that operated as part of the Wehrmacht during the Second World War under the leadership of B.A. Smyslovsky (an Abwehr officer operating under the pseudonym Arthur Holmston), went into battle under the tricolor.
Patch of the "Special Division of General Smyslovsky", 1943
Why did the fascists, who allegedly did not like the tricolor so much that they allegedly banned its use by Vlasov, allowed the tricolor to everyone who liked it? Where is the logic? Why was the white-blue-red flag used at the KONR meeting in Riga in 1944?
Why was the blue-red cockade worn on the right sleeve as the distinctive sign of the KONR Armed Forces? The answer is obvious - no one in the Hitlerite army banned the tricolor, just to expand the range of attracting volunteers, the ROA used two flags. The current Vlasovites choose footage of the chronicle, where only one of the posted flags gets into the camera lens, and present them as proof of the "innocence" of their symbol, they say, the participants in the events have already died, there are no ROA museums - go figure it out.(For the main collaborator of the Kremlin junta, Gena Zyuganov, the tricolor has long ceased to be a Vlasov skirt, now he calls it "the defiled Vlasov." - the red flag was used as a symbol of the Russian people, Russia and the White Army. " They say, yes, they banned it, but they used it, but not as the Vlasovites, but as the Russian people. But even if the tricolor really was not the official flag of the ROA, its widespread use by other units of traitors who fought with Hitler against their people still makes it the flag of traitors, traitors, and scum.
Spiritual bonds and values of the bearers of the state flag of the Russian Federation.
Polivanov O.I.
14.10.2014
24.10.2014 In the third reading, the State Duma adopted a law prohibiting propaganda and public display of the symbols of organizations that collaborated with the Nazis, including the state flag of the Kremlin junta - the tricolor, like the flag of the Vlasovites, and other traitors who fought against the Soviet people. Also outlawed were the attributes of organizations denying the verdict of the Nuremberg Tribunal. In particular, the symbols of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army were banned.... But, obviously, the tricolor that fits the definition of the law will not be prohibited, which will be another egregious example of the double standards of bourgeois justice. :
http://www.roa.ru/musik.html
http://lenta.ru/news/2014/10/24/nazism/
The St. George ribbon was worn by the generals of the Wehrmacht
Differences between the Guards ribbon and the St. George ribbon: the modern ribbon for the Order of St. George (1992) is an alternation of three black and two orange stripes. But the Guards ribbon is three black stripes superimposed on an orange background. The pre-revolutionary Guards ribbon from 1769 was the colors of the state emblem - black and yellow. Only four years before the revolution, a change was made in the statute of the order: orange and black officially became the colors of St. George. But even here there is a difference from the Guards tape - the side orange gaps along the edge of the tape are narrow, while the Soviet guards have wide ones.
The putlevizor is lying, as if the people, in spite of the officialdom, called the Guards ribbon "St. George's", and the wearing of pre-revolutionary awards was prohibited. Before the revolution, the people called the St. George Cross "Egoriy". Why would it suddenly, during the Great Patriotic War, the atheist Komsomol suddenly "remembered" about some kind of George? And in the USSR, the wearing of old-regime awards was never forbidden by anyone, soldiers and marshals wore them without embarrassment. Moreover, the official press published photos of the heroes, where the Order of Lenin or the star of the Hero of the Soviet Union were adjacent to the St. George's crosses.
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The link is a bunch of lulz and tons of srach for 1.5 thousand kaments - not without my participation.
As befits the propagandists-guardians of the so-called. letter so-called bloggers are overwhelmed with blatant lies, distortion and substitution of concepts - which is not surprising for the guardian propagandists who stand guard over their liberal mistresses. What housewives - such and mongrels - arrogant, deceitful, stupid scum. And the ribbon they have is "St. George", and not the Guards, as it is written in black and white in its Statute. And the tricolor they did not use Vlasov and other paramilitary units of collaborationists (like Hitlar forbade!), And other lies, designed for idiots, half-minded, illiterate. As if it is now the 90s and you can just as impudently and unrestrainedly shit people in the brains. But to them - at least a piss in the eyes, Bp. Although many of the signatories and participants of the mega-srach are quite, in places, sane and patriotic citizens. That's just with the brains fucked up for 25 years of propaganda. And there is practically no difference from zombified dill.
Let's figure it out. First, about the tricolor. I already wrote about the ribbon and the rest - links at the end of the article.
Brochure KONR, 1944, - the Committee for the Liberation of the Peoples of Russia, - a political body created with the participation of the authorities of Nazi Germany to overthrow the existing political system in the USSR and uniting the Russians and a number of national organizations operating in the territories controlled by Nazi Germany.
Recently, in view of the extremely negative attitude of Russian society towards the so-called Vlasov army, ideological movements began to separate it from its flag - the state flag of the Russian Federation, known as white-blue-red. The Russian Liberation Army, ROA is the historically established name of the armed forces of the Committee for the Liberation of the Peoples of Russia (KONR), who fought on the side of the Third Reich against the USSR, as well as the totality of the majority of Russian anti-Soviet units and subunits from Russian collaborators as part of the Wehrmacht in 1943-1944, formed various German military structures (the headquarters of the SS Troops, etc.) during the Great Patriotic War, headed by the famous traitor General A.A. Vlasov. As a flag, she used the flag with the St.Andrew's Cross, as well as the Russian tricolor, which was documented in the footage of the parade of the 1st Guards Brigade of the ROA in Pskov on June 22, 1943 and in the photo chronicle of the Vlasovites' formation in Münsingen.
The use of the Russian tricolor in the ROA units is confirmed by one of their marching songs - the so-called "March of the Russian Liberation Army":
We are walking, a tricolor flag is above us.
We walk through our native fields.
Our motive is picked up by the winds
And they carry them to the Moscow domes.
http://www.roa.ru/musik.html
And now, when everything was established long ago and accurately, absurd statements like these suddenly began to appear: It is a fact that the Germans banned the use of the white-blue-red three-stripe flag when forming such units, clearly fearing Russian national symbols. These data can be gleaned from the memoirs of V. Shtrik-Shtrikfeldt "Against Stalin and Hitler", a Russian German attached to A.A. Vlasov: "Gradually, all the so-called" national military units "in the German army received badges with the national colors of their peoples ... Only the largest people - the Russians - were denied this. This question urgently demanded a solution. But here, too, difficulties arose. Historical Russian national colors - white-blue-red - were banned. ”(Russian flags during the Second World War)
To improve visibility, the flag is artificially colored.
Along with these data, the German writer Sven Steenberg argued that the flag of the ROA was Andreevsky. The ROA sleeve chevron was a St. Andrew's shield with a red piping. The photographs of the famous Prague meeting of the KONR on November 14, 1944, clearly show that the stage is decorated with two huge banners: the Nazi flag with a swastika and the St. Andrew's flag. There is an opinion that the flag of the ROA was also a white-blue-red flag, but it was banned by the Germans. The Russian artist A.N. Rodzevich was involved in the development of the ROA symbolism. He made nine sketches, all of which were dominated by the colors of the old Russian flag - white, blue and red. The sketches were submitted to the Imperial Ministry for the Occupied Eastern Territories for approval. Rosenberg personally crossed out all nine, after which the sketches returned back, causing Vlasov's bitter remark: "I would have left it - the Russian flag crossed out by the Germans for fear of him." Then Malyshkin suggested using the St. Andrew's cross, and the sketch, which eventually received Rosenberg's approval, was a blue St. Andrew's cross on a white field. On the footage of the parade of the 1st Guards brigade of the ROA in Pskov on June 22, 1943, there is a white-blue-red flag. But there the white-blue-red flag was used as a symbol of the Russian people, Russia and the White Army. (Shteenberg S. General Vlasov. - M .: Eksmo, 2005)
So the Germans banned the tricolor because they didn't like it, these hackers say. But besides the ROA, Hitler also had other units of Soviet traitors.
The Russian National People's Army (RNNA) (Sonderverband "Graukopf" ("Gray Head" Special Unit)) is an armed paramilitary group formed in the occupied territory of the USSR and took part in World War II on the side of the Third Reich.
Lieutenant V.A.Ressler, Colonel K.G. Kromiadi and senior physician Razumovsky. Osintorf, 1942 Ressler and Kromiadi are dressed in Soviet uniforms with RNNA shoulder straps and tricolor cockades.
“For the cockade of the headdress, the colors of the Russian national flag were taken - white-blue-red. For lack of a suitable material, they were made of cloth and cardboard. Of course, our flag was also white-blue-red ", - writes in his book" For the land, for freedom! " Colonel of the White Army K.G. Kromiadi.
"Green Army of Special Purpose" - 1st Russian National Army - Division "Russland" - a military formation that operated as part of the Wehrmacht during the Second World War under the leadership of B. A. Smyslovsky (Abwehr officer, who operated under the pseudonym Arthur Holmston), - went into battle under the tricolor.
Patch of the "Special Division of General Smyslovsky", 1943
Why did the fascists, who allegedly did not like the tricolor so much that they allegedly banned its use by Vlasov, allowed the tricolor to everyone to whom it was nice? Where is the logic? Why was the white-blue-red flag used at the KONR meeting in Riga in 1944?
Why was the blue-red cockade worn on the right sleeve as the distinctive sign of the military personnel of the KONR Armed Forces? The answer is obvious - no one in the Hitlerite army prohibited the tricolor, just to expand the range of attracting volunteers, the ROA used two flags. The current Vlasovites choose footage of the chronicle, where only one of the posted flags gets into the camera lens, and present them as proof of the "innocence" of their symbol, they say, the participants in the events have already died, there are no ROA museums - go figure it out. (For the main collaborator of the Kremlin junta, Gena Zyuganov, the tricolor has long ceased to be a Vlasov skirt, now he calls it “the desecrated Vlasov.”) Modern Vlasovites themselves admit their lie when phrases like, are inserted between statements about the Nazi ban on the tricolor, - “But there is white and blue - the red flag was used as a symbol of the Russian people, Russia and the White Army. " They say, yes, they banned it, but they used it, but not as the Vlasovites, but as the Russian people.
And although by order of the General Staff of the Land Forces of the Wehrmacht (OKH) 500/43 on the introduction of the uniform and insignia of the Russian Liberation Army for the Vlasovites, stripes and a flag in the form of an Andreevsky oblique cross (another Russian symbol spoiled by betrayal) were prescribed for Vlasov, Himmler allowed Vlasov use the "state" white-blue-red flag.
On February 16, 1945, the white-blue-red tricolor was solemnly raised over the military training ground and barracks in Münsingen, where the 1st and 2nd divisions of the ROA were formed (according to German numbering - 600th and 650th). On this day, Vlasov, like Yeltsin later, declared this flag the flag of "free Russia."
But even if the tricolor really was not the official flag of the ROA, its widespread use by other units of traitors who fought with Hitler against their people still makes it the flag of traitors, traitors, and scum. And it doesn't matter that these traitors practically did not take part in hostilities at the front, as the current liberal traitors try to justify them. What matters is that they changed the Oath. And moreover, they swore allegiance to the enemies - the Third Reich and Hitler personally. And they certainly took part in punitive actions against their own people.
It is worth recalling that for the first time in the occupied territory of the USSR, the red-blue-white flag was raised in November 1941 in the so-called. "Lokot Republic". It was from these traitors that the first punitive detachments and RONA were formed to suppress the local population. Later they were reorganized into the 129th SS Brigade and sent to Belarus to fight the partisans and to suppress the Warsaw Uprising. There will be a separate article about that. RON's emblem is the same tricolor:
When the German fascist invaders occupied another city, the first thing they did was to catch and hang all the communists, and the second, they opened an Orthodox church. This shows who was Hitler's enemy and who was his friend. The Nazi army did not and could not have a red banner with a sickle, a hammer, and a star, but any traitor carried the national flag of the Russian Federation in it. And here we see under what symbol people were supporters of Hitler, and under what opponents. The 70th anniversary of the "great victory" that the Kremlin Vlasovists stole from the Soviet people is approaching, so it is not superfluous to remember this, so that there would be no illusion that the Vlasovites have ceased to be hanged ...
About the Russian tricolor, the story - why it was never the official state flag of Russia.
NEW MYTHOLOGY: IS THE RUSSIAN FLAG THE "VLASOV FLAG"? EXCLUDING ANOTHER MYTHNEW MYTHOLOGY: IS THE RUSSIAN FLAG THE "VLASOV FLAG"?
EXCLUDING ANOTHER MYTH
Epigraph:
Vladimir: "It would be funny if it was not so sad !!!
The Vlasov flags next to the slogans about Victory annoy me most of all.
One gets the impression that the Nazis won and are now celebrating. "
Alexander: "The flag of the traitor Vlasov was thrown together with the swastikas at the foot of the Mausoleum. I consider it blasphemous to hang the shameful tricolor on Victory Day. Our grandfathers and great-grandfathers fought for the flag of Vlasov to fly over Red Square? I declare not without boasting that 7, 8 , and on May 9 he personally tore off 5 flags from the houses. "
Next comes the stuffing of idiotic, deceitful demotivators, such as this one, where at the Victory Parade on June 24, 1945, along with enemy banners and standards, the Russian tricolor is thrown onto the platform at the Mausoleum. I do not want to post this abomination here at all, so you can view it at the link. After a short search, I managed to find where the legs of these demotivators are growing, which are rapidly spreading on the Internet, just as in Vysotsky's song, stupid rumors are spread across the minds of toothless old women, so bloggers, someone from ignorance of history, who deliberately spread all sorts of nonsense on the internet.
The beginning of this was laid by the "paintings" of the Angarsk artist with a sick imagination, Nikolai Mikhailovich Terekhov, whose provocative goal, apparently, has only one, trampling in the mud and humiliation of the symbols of Russian statehood, Article 329 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation, which provides for imprisonment for up to one year, probably his does not bother at all. You can get acquainted with the "work" of this artist. We see the most real manipulation of consciousness and distortion of historical facts. The author of these "pictures" is trying to change consciousness and introduce into it the stupidest myth that the Russian tricolor is the "enemy's flag", that the Vlasovites used it only. Obviously, the author of the "pictures" has problems that zombify other people and there are those who in all seriousness consider the flag "Vlasov".
From the history of the Victory Parade:
Enemy banners and standards, thrown onto the platform at the Mausoleum, were collected by Smersh trophy teams in May 1945. All of them are outdated in 1935 (new ones were not made until the end of the war; the Germans never went to battle under the banners), taken in regimental storage areas and zeichhaus. The dismantled LSSAH label is also of the old model - 1935 (the cloth from it is stored separately in the FSB archive). In addition, among the banners - almost two dozen Kaiser, mostly cavalry, also flags of the NSDAP party, Hitler Youth, Labor Front, etc. All of them are now kept in the CMVS. RUSSIAN TRICOLOR AMONG THEM THERE ARE NOT AND WAS NOT! I watched a lot of newsreels, photos, from the Victory Parade, not a single frame of this was and is not!
In the 90s, communists of all parties and stripes argued their dislike for the political and economic transformations that had taken place in the country by their personal dislike for nothing, but for the adopted coat of arms and flag. In particular, according to the ‘especially distinguished’ among those politicians - Chairman of the State Duma GD Seleznev, it was stated that “the two-headed eagle is an incomprehensible imperial bird”, and “the Vlasovites fought under the tricolor flag - which the veterans are indignant with in their numerous letters”.
However, the letters themselves were never shown. Apparently, it was not thought to calculate their exact number for the purpose of widespread publicity. Instead, the politically convenient label "Vlasov flag" quickly became popular both among the deputies of the communist blocs in the State Duma and among the illegal left-wing radical organizations (communist, national-bolshevik and others) operating illegally. Even Mr. Zyuganov, apparently not very familiar with the history of the Second World War, in 2011 at a briefing for the Novosibirsk media said: "- I respect our state symbols, ...... but it must be borne in mind that at one time the Vlasov army, which fought against the Soviet state on the side of Hitler, chose this flag as its banner."
Let's still try to figure out under what flag the army of the traitor Vlasov fought?
The use of the national flag by various collaborators is quite common. For example, the Vichy government used the national flag of France. Nevertheless, de Gaulle did not even think about replacing him with any other for this reason.
Indeed, some Russian anti-Bolshevik formations created during the Second World War used the tricolor flag, in particular the Russian Guard Corps and the 1st RNA of General Smyslovsky. However, these connections were formed mainly from Russian emigrants and had nothing to do with Vlasov. The flag of the ROA proper was a white flag with an oblique azure cross, best known as St. Andrew's. The ROA sleeve chevron was also a St. Andrew's shield with a red piping. The photographs of the famous Prague meeting of the KONR on November 14, 1944, clearly show that the stage is decorated with two huge banners: the fascist flag with a swastika and the St. Andrew's flag.
The only documented use of the tricolor flag by Vlasov before 1945 was the parade of the 1st Guards Brigade in Pskov on June 22, 1943:
But we must take into account that this happened on the personal initiative of the White emigrant, Count Grigory Pavlovich Lamsdorf, who was carrying the banner. However, in the future, for all understandable reasons, the Germans did not allow such amateur performances.
For the second time, the use of a white-blue-red three-lane flag was recorded at the formation of ROA soldiers in Münsingen on February 16, 1945. This was a time marked by a strong growth of contempt for the Wehrmacht on the part of the ROA soldiers - which is noted both in the memoirs of eyewitnesses and participants in the events, and in subsequent complex systematizations of historical materials. For example, J. Hoffmann notes the fact that on that day, at the formation, the ROA soldiers "began to rip off the German eagles from the uniforms."
But only from May 6, 1945 - a few days before the end of the war, we can say that ROA soldiers really began to use the white-blue-red three-stripe flag everywhere. On May 7, 1945, the 1st ROA division under the command of General SK Bunyachenko entered into battle with SS units and, together with the Czechoslovak militias, defeated the Germans. Under white-blue-red three-lane flags, soldiers of one of the battalions of the division in the last massive bayonet attack of World War II in Europe knocked out the SS-sheep of the Das Reich division from the Prague Ruzyne airfield.
Entering the fight at a critical moment, the 1st ROA Division was able to occupy, with the exception of a few islands of German resistance, the entire western part of Prague and a vast area on the eastern bank of the Vltava to Strasnice. The ROA forces were not enough to occupy the entire city, but, having cut the city in two, they prevented the connection of German reserves from the north and south. These events were also captured in Czech historiography (see Pražská ofenzíva and Pražské povstání).
But Vlasov himself was always against using the tricolor. As you know, Vlasov was categorically against the monarchy and everything connected with it, that had a connection with the White Guards, he hated them and very much: in 1920 he himself fought against Wrangel. Vlasov was, whatever one may say, a Soviet man, from peasants, completely alien to White emigres. In addition, the White Guards themselves hated Vlasov: he fought against them in civilian war, he was a former red general, a Bolshevik, a communist (since 1930), a traitor-defector, and so on. But apparently the Nazis did not figure it out, the St. Andrew's flag was, after all, also a Russian, naval flag, or rather the stern flag of the Navy of the Russian Empire. So what, someone will turn the language to say about the Andreevsky flag "Vlasov"? The Russian tricolor, like the Andreevsky flag, was used by all kinds of nits during the Second World War. So, what is next? Why should we pay attention to this mold that has defiled our symbolism?
Anton Ivanovich Denikin said most eloquently about this mold in 1941:
"By cooperating with the Nazis, Krasnov confirmed that he does not like Russians. Russians, Russia - like a non-Russian Cossack with all his independence ... Now there is no red army, now there is no white army, but there is only one army - the Russian one, and it will win!"
The white-blue-red flag and the double-headed eagle are the main historical symbols of Russia and the Russian people. I respect the Soviet flag and Soviet symbols, but the Russian flag is dear to me, I grew up under this flag, it means a lot to me. All the flags of Russia, and the White-Blue-Red Tricolor, and the Andreevsky, and the Red Sickle-Hammer, and even the Black-Yellow-White flag, these are all our flags and you cannot belittle their role in the history of Russia and, moreover, give each of them to be torn apart by all sorts of enemies. The Russian flag has long been a tricolor, and leeches that illegally sucked on it During the Second World War, as well as to Andreevsky, and toBlack-Yellow-White flags, died long ago and fell off. So, as we can see, the myth of the "Vlasov flag", which is already tired of the order, is apparently spread only by those who do not like it for various reasons, either provocateurs, or simply stupid people who do not know history. It's time to put an end to this!
Sources:
wikipedia.org/wiki/Parade_Victory
S. Drobyazko. Russian Liberation Army. M., AST, 1999
"Rodina", 1992, N 8-9, p. 84-90.
Every citizen of Russia who has a solid “four” in his school history certificate knows that the Russian tricolor appeared in our country thanks to Peter the Great. But if you went to a school with an in-depth study of history, or your teacher was a vexillologist, then you know something completely different - the correct one. The first tricolor appeared in Russia earlier, during the reign of the first tsar from the Romanov dynasty, Mikhail Fedorovich.
In 1634, an embassy from the Duke of Holstein Frederick III arrived at the court of Mikhail Fedorovich. In addition to diplomatic issues, the embassy also decided on the construction of ten ships on the Volga to travel to Persia. The first ship, the Frederick, was launched in 1636. The term of his ship life was short, but he went under the Holstein flag, suspiciously similar to our current tricolor. So the tricolor flag was revealed to the eyes of the Russian people, but while it was not a Russian flag, it became Russian (or almost Russian) under Alexei Mikhailovich.
Alexei Mikhailovich chose this flag for the first Russian frigate "Eagle". Dutch engineer David Butler asked the tsar what flag to put on the ship. Russia did not yet have its own flag, and the frigate's crew consisted entirely of the Dutch, so without hesitation it was decided to put up a flag identical to the Dutch one, which, of course, is at least strange. For the then Russian sailors, who were 80 percent Pomors, to sail under the Protestant flag at sea was tantamount to taking an escort of women on board, bringing a solemn sacrifice of a seagull right on the deck, erecting several coffins in the hold and breaking other signs ... One conclusion from this suggests itself: there was not a single Orthodox Christian on board the Eagle. Although, the ship is a ship. Ship flags used to be a complete formality, they were changed before entering ports, trade could not be threatened. In general, the tricolor first appeared on a Russian ship by accident, reaching the point of absurdity.
The appearance of the tricolor under Peter also cannot be explained by the wisdom of choosing a ruler. He just loved Holland very much. So much so that many courtiers, after the return of Peter I from the great embassy, thought that he had been replaced. In Rotterdam, a frigate with a Dutch flag, built by Peter's order, was waiting for Peter. Peter liked him so much that he decided not to change the banner.
2. Why three colors?
The three colors on the Russian flag are associated with heraldic fashion that goes back to the Merovingians. On the banner of the Frankish king Clovis, there were three toads, denoting three mothers, three racial types, three psychological models of worldview: Freya, Lida and Findu. Later, the toads were replaced by lilies, symbolizing first the Virgin Mary and then the Holy Trinity. There is no single meaning of the symbolism of the colors of the Russian flag. Everyone is free to believe what he wants, but it is significant that the colors of the Russian flag could have been different. Initially, the Dutch flag was not red-blue-white, instead of red it was orange. According to the official version, it was a revolution in everyday life that prompted the Dutch to change the orange color to red - the fact that the orange color, fading, acquired very interesting tones, up to green, and the flag looked like the "rainbow flag" popular today in certain circles. Do we want such a flag?
3. Was there an alternative?
The answer to this question is unequivocal: it was. And not one. And not two. Much more.
Firstly, the military banners of the times of Ivan the Terrible can be considered Russian flags. They were traditional red with the image of Christ. In 1552, Russian regiments marched under it to the victorious assault on Kazan. In the chronicle record of the siege of Kazan by Ivan the Terrible (1552) it is said: "and the sovereign of the kherugvi ordered the Christian to unfold, that is to say, the banner, on them the image of our Lord Jesus Christ Not Made by Hands." This banner for a century and a half accompanied the Russian army. Under Tsarina Sofya Alekseevna, it visited the Crimean campaigns, and under Peter I - in the Azov campaign and in the war with the Swedes.
An alternative to the tricolor could be the St. Andrew's flag - white with an azure cross, in honor of the Order of the Holy Apostle Andrew the First-Called. Apostle Andrew the First-Called was crucified on an oblique cross. For this reason, Christians associate an oblique cross with the name of this apostle. Andrew the First-Called in his wanderings reached the shores of the Black Sea and baptized the ancient Rus. In Russia they were proud that the beginning of Russian Christianity was connected with the deeds of the very first of Christ's disciples. After this change, the Russian fleet began to win decisive victories in naval battles.
The flag of Alexei Mikhailovich, the first Russian flag, could also become the current flag of Russia. It was created in the likeness of the streltsy banners. The flag of Tsar Alexei Mikhailovich is deeply symbolic. It is based on the Cross. Thus, this flag indicates the mission of Russia in the universe, as the last bearer of the true faith - Orthodoxy.
Finally, after the collapse of the Union, as a sign that we once again renounced the old world (this time - from the world of dreams in developed socialism), it could become the flag of Russia - the flag of the Romanov dynasty (black-yellow-white). For the first time, it began to be hung on solemn days after 1815, following the end of the Patriotic War with Napoleonic France. By the decree of Alexander II of June 11, 1858, it was introduced as a "coat of arms" flag. The flag designer was probably B. Kene. The black-yellow-white banner is based on the Russian heraldic tradition. Its black color is from a two-headed eagle, yellow is from the golden field of the coat of arms, and white is the color of St. George.
There were other flags in Russia as well. The choice of the tricolor is associated with yet another farce of history, but more on that later.
4. Why are other Slavs also under this flag?
Officially, there are three versions of why "our colors" are present on the flags of other peoples who participated in the Pan-Slavic congress in the middle of the 19th century. Two of them are absurd, one is true. According to the first version, the colors are borrowed not from the Russian trade flag, but from the flag of France, and they represent, respectively, freedom, equality and brotherhood. Of course it is not. Nicholas I, who has his own idea of these three values (fundamentally different from the ideals of the French Revolution) would hardly have allowed such a genesis. The second version is even weaker: these colors went to the Pan-Slavs from the Duchy of Carniola, which is about three Moscow squares. Finally, the main version is the "Russian genesis". Sponsorship and support from Russia is the main reason for the tricolor in the national flags of the Slavic peoples.
5. Why was this flag chosen by the Provisional Government?
It actually did not choose him. It just didn't change it. At the Legal Meeting in April 1917, it was decided to keep the flag as national. At the May meeting of the Provisional Government, the issue of the flag was postponed "until the resolution of the Constituent Assembly." In fact, the tricolor remained the national flag until the October Revolution, legally until April 13, 1918. when it was decided to establish the flag of the RSFSR. During the Civil War, the tricolor was the flag of the Whites, the Soviet army fought under the red flag.
6. Why did Vlasov choose this flag?
ROA and RNNA consisted, by and large, of White emigrants. It is not at all surprising that it was the flag of tsarist Russia that was used by Vlasov. For the fight against Stalinism and Bolshevism (this is how Vlasov justified his betrayal), there was simply no better flag. Tricolor even participated in the ROA parade in Pskov on June 22, 1943.
7. Why did Yeltsin choose this flag?
The first to use the tricolor after Vlasov was Garry Kasparov. During the world championship match with Anatoly Karpov (who played under the Soviet flag), Kasparov performed under the red-white-blue flag. There was perestroika and Harry Kimovich, obviously, felt where and where the wind was blowing. By the way, Kasparov won that match. A year later, he won the flag. People with red-white-blue flags came to the putsch (an accident, probably). The veterans, who 20 years ago there were much more, and who were also in the crowd at the House of Soviets, experienced bewilderment: they remembered the history of half a century ago. One of the flags was on the tank with Boris Nikolayevich. It is interesting that the Yeltsin memorial at the Novodevichy cemetery is a huge tricolor. The flag returned with the 1991 putsch.
Well, something like that .... What confuses you? And Waiting for the history of your flag?