Russian tricolor

[FRISON Philippe]

I would be happy to get a accurate desciption of the meaning of the
Russian flag colors,
but as for the French flag, it stems from Paris colours (blue and red)
which,
 during the French Revolution were set on both sides of the white one,
which symbolized the King.

Philippe Frison

Strasbourg
(France)


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[mailto:SEELANGS at LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU] On Behalf Of Peter Houtzagers
Sent: vendredi 9 septembre 2005 16:03
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Subject: Re: [SEELANGS] Russian tricolor


VANCHU, ANTHONY J. (JSC-AH) (TTI) wrote:
> I'm confused here.  If Dutch and Russian stripes are HORIZONTAL, how 
> can it be that tunrning them upside down gives you the French flag?

It doesn't. But no matter how you turn our Dutch flag, you'll never get 
the Russian one unless you use scissors, a needle and thread first. 
Probably Peter loved our flag so much (and right he was) that he used 
the colours but changed the order. Maybe he wanted to conceal that it 
was ours :). By the way, you can derive not only the French but also the

UK and the US flag from the Dutch one. The French turned it sideways and

the Americans and Brits used essentially the same colours (only the blue

varies a little) but changed the pattern :)

Peter Houtzagers

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