flag was inspired by the French tricolour. It was introduced in the mid-17th century, featuring a red, white, and blue ...

Thus, red also signified proximity to the royal court, wealth and power. A white eagle on a red background was also present on heraldic flags. The symbol of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth was a ...

The white flag with a red stripe across it was the flag of Belarusian ... a man and a woman got three years in jail for hanging straw effigies along a country road. Olga Klimkova and Sergei ...