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Our REAL Flag on Eurosport!

Our REAL Flag on Eurosport! by zdymki23.
Sorry for bad quality, it's a TV screenshot.

As you can see, Eurosport editors put up the national white-red-white flag (!) next to the name of the Belarusan tennis player Anastassia Yakimova who was playing against Belgian star Henin-Hardenne today on the main court of Roland Garros. The white-red-white flag was banned by Alexander Lukashenka in 1996. Since then he forbid using it and made the revamped Soviet-era BSSR flag our state symbol again. You can be beaten up or arrested by police in Belarus if you publicly display a white-red-white flag. Kudos to Eurosport for using this flag today! This is really an amazing "mistake." The national flag was banned by the dictator more than 10 years ago, so I'm pretty sure it's not an accidental mistake of the Eurosport editors and the "good" flag was chosen on purpose. More here

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didaio says:

WOW :)
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Jaŭhien Sasnoŭ  Pro User  says:

man, this is incredible indeed!!! :)
Posted 43 months ago. ( permalink )

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