Flag of Russia - Vlasov flag?

Each state has its own symbolism, which carries some meaning. The flag, along with other signs, symbolizes the independence of the state and the people.

Official history broadcasts that before the seventeenth century the state flag in the Russian Empire was not. In all countries that had a fleet, ships had to walk with the raised flag of their country. And when the Russian fleet appeared, it was necessary to raise the flag, as in other countries. Then they came up with a tricolor, which some now call the "Vlasov flag." Warships sailed under him for thirty years. But after the adoption of the decree that the military vessels would go under a different flag - Andreevsky, tricolor began to use only civil vessels.

In the nineteenth century, it was suggested that the colors of the Russian flag should be chosen in accordance with the coat of arms. After imperial approval for several decades, the black and yellow-white flag became a state flag. But not having received public approval, it was replaced by 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 flag of the Russian Federation was a tricolor, the same one that was in the times of the Russian Empire. At the end of the two thousandth year, a law on the state flag was adopted, defining the rules for its use and legal status.

The Vlasov Flag

On the Internet you can find the 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 to the USSR. The flag of the Vlasov army appeared when certain treacherous formations decided to unite with the Hitlerite army to fight the Soviet regime, united in the so-called ROA, the Russian liberation army. It was headed by A. Vlasov - a person who enjoyed the Kremlin's trust. However, after being captured, after some time he decided to start fighting with the Soviet regime, becoming a traitor to his homeland.

Flag of Traitors

A huge number of Russian people lived in inhuman conditions, slowly dying. The fascists offered them an alternative to these conditions - joining the ROA, and some people, unable to endure anymore, went over to the side of the enemy. They were called Vlasovites.
Becoming a flag of the Vlasov army, people not only avoided starvation. Among them there were many officers who believed in the idea that, thanks to the fascist army, they could overthrow the Bolshevik system.

However, this idea was not exactly the one for which they were going, because the methods of fighting the Stalinist regime turned into, in fact, the betrayal of their homeland. Therefore, the plans could not be realized, since the initial betrayal made the "rainbow" ideas flawed. That is why the flag of Russia (Vlasov) is sometimes associated with betrayal.

Vlasov wanted to take advantage of the fascists, and the fascists took advantage of it. When they were needed, they gave him freedom in the formation of his so-called army. However, when he entered into polemics with the Germans and in some ways disagreed with them, his ROA ceased to receive support for further agitation, and the fascists sent the army solely for their own purposes.

Vlasov was transferred to the Soviet Union on May 5, 1945 by the Americans. And in fifteen months he was executed for treason.

What should be the flag of the Russian Federation

Some Russians, referring to the "evil past" of the white-blue-red tricolor, advocate that the Russian flag be replaced by the flag of the Romanov dynasty, considering it "more Russian" than the Vlasov flag. Photo of the flag of Russia:

Initially, the colors of the flag, as far as we know, did not mean anything specific. But later they made sense for Russian people.

This is what these bands meant:

• White - freedom and independence;
• Blue - the color of the Mother of God;
• Red - power.

Today , the colors of the flag are described as follows:

• White - peace, purity, perfection;
• Blue - faith and faith;
• Red - power, energy, blood shed for the Motherland.

So is it worth it because of the small number of people who got confused during the Great Patriotic War and became traitors, to call the symbol of Russia the Vlasov flag? After all, tricolor has been used in Russia for several centuries.