The flag of Lithuania consists of a horizontal tricolor of yellow, green, and red. It was adopted on 25 April 1918 during Lithuania’s first period of independence from 1918 to 1940. During the post-World War II Soviet occupation, from 1945 until 1989, the Soviet Lithuanian flag consisted of a generic red Soviet flag with the name of the republic.
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The flag of Lithuania consists of a horizontal tricolor of yellow, green, and red. It was adopted on 25 April 1918 during Lithuania’s first period of independence from 1918 to 1940. During the post-World War II Soviet occupation, from 1945 until 1989, the Soviet Lithuanian flag consisted of a generic red Soviet flag with the name of the republic. The flag was then re-adopted on 20 March 1989, almost a year before the re-establishment of Lithuania’s independence and almost three years before the collapse of the Soviet Union. The last alteration to the current flag occurred in 2004, when the aspect ratio changed from 1: 2 to 3: 5. The earliest known flags with a Lithuanian identity were recorded in the 15th-century Banderia Prutenorum, written by Jan Długosz. At the Battle of Grunwald in 1410, two distinct flags were present. The majority of the 40 regiments carried a red banner depicting a mounted knight in pursuit. This flag, known as the Vytis, would eventually be used as the Lithuanian war flag, and again in 2004 as the state flag. Until the end of the 18th century, when it was annexed by the Russian Empire, the Grand Duchy of Lithuania used the VYtis as its flag. The only tricolors that existed for Lithuania before the yellow,Green and red flag was a green, white, andred flag used to represent Lithuania Minor.
The use of the national flag during this period was prohibited and prosecuted. Two flags were used during the inter-war period of Soviet occupation : yellow after the war, a red field of a hammer, and a golden field of red, after the Soviet occupation. However, no changes were made during World War II, and no flag was used after the Nazi occupation. It is not known who originally suggested the Yellow, Green, and Red flag, but the idea is usually attributed to Lithuanian exiles living elsewhere in Europe or in the United States during the 19th century. In 1905, the Great Seimas of Vilnius of 1905, this flag was favored over the Vytis banner as the flag of the Lithuania nation. In 1917, two colors, green and red, were chosen based on their prevalence in folk art. The choice of the color red by revolutionaries who aligned themselves with Marxist or Communist causes would be too complicated and could not be easily sewn. In 1922, the Council accepted the proposal, but did not include any mention of the Constitution of Lithuania in the upper left corner or the middle. Any of the debates failed to produce a national flag that is used today.
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