The Russian Flag, Explained.*

The Russian Naval Jack has a puzzling similarity to the American Confederacy flag. Coincidence?
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[@Tapakapa]

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[@pyeitme508]

WOW!

[@Ichim8]

who doesnt like spuds?

[@Austin_Playz27]

@@Ichim8the demons in my closet

[@ParIoYT]

THE VOICES☹️☹️☹️☹️

[@Petr_LA]

Amazing video, I didn't even know many things about the transition from back-yellow to white-blue-red, even being a citizen of Russia!

[@nerdboi419]

British flag after 7 pints

[@DG19Main]

this is the most British comment I've ever seen lol

[@RP3X7]

😂😂

[@nutsi3]

2:59

[@uniqueegmd]

after 7 shots of vodka*

[@kamalsridhar5486]

Looks like norway😅

[@lizyarikus]

Me, a Moldovan: knew Romania and Chad were switched. I am very proud of myself.

[@irp3ex]

i noticed that the chad one is lighter but i forgot that chad is actually the darker one

[@cloudynguyen6527]

You are hereby granted the title - the chad of Moldova.

[@TraceDemon470]

you aren't the only one... you are not cool

[@lizyarikus]

@@TraceDemon470 This is one of the funniest internet hate comments I've ever got, thanks for the laugh. So which is it - not cool BECAUSE I'm not the only one, otherwise would be cool, or is knowing that Chad is darker blue makes me AND everyone else uncool?

[@melmelxd5731]

10:40 ohhhhh so THAT'S how you read those funky squares that i see on wikipedia so often...

[@Anolaana]

Oh yeah, that 6-segment grid (edit: called a International Federation of Vexillological Associations or FIAV Symbol, using the French abbreviation), this video is a nice explainer about that.

[@Me1le]

Thank you for pointing this out. :) I would not have caught this otherwise.

[@worldoftancraft]

​@@Anolaana > English > the "Germanic language" where is exceptional pity towards French, where French is universally accepted as superior to the majority of English > ironically this is the most English thing possible

[@creo-je9wu]

There's literally an explanation page if you click on it

[@getawayunclejohn7107]

Our elephant 🇷🇺🇷🇺🇷🇺🇷🇺🇷🇺

[@nav14ok62]

НААААШ СЛООООООН🐘🐘🐘🐘🐘🐘🐘🐘🐘🐘🐘🐘🐘🐘

[@dr_crow]

ГООООООООООООООЛ!!!

[@user-qk2oh5gb4o]

Elephantyara

[@user-kc9mf2il8o]

Слоняра 🐘🐘🐘🐘🐘

[@Skooffy]

Nash slonyara 🐘

[@KakoyToChen2023]

За 15 минут узнал про наш флаг больше чем за всю жизнь

[@rektpotato8720]

чувак 15 минут слушал на английском языке, все понял, а написать не смог, skill issue

[@rusername]

@@rektpotato8720 русский лучше

[@KakoyToChen2023]

@@rektpotato8720 bro, i wrote this in russian cuz r wanted to tell it to the people of russia, and not cuz i dont know how to write

[@user-dv1xx9rw7l]

Ну это скорее плохо говорит о тебе (не для оскорбления пишу)

[@sasha.kunnossa]

@@rektpotato8720Я на адекватном уровне понимаю английский, но правильно написать что-то для меня сложно

[@erdood3235]

3:25 Peter was incognito as part of a entire Russian diplomatic mission/tour of Europe. He disguised himself as just a part of it

[@bradlemmond]

He still must have stood out, but pictures of world leaders weren't readily available.

[@erdood3235]

@@bradlemmond was he expetionally tall for a Russian back then?

[@samuelwoolwineiv7886]

@@erdood3235Very. He was way above average height for the time in general, and especially for a Russian.

[@erdood3235]

@@samuelwoolwineiv7886 did the political class in Europe know how he locked like?

[@Velin_official]

@@erdood3235 He was more than 2 Meters tall. i think it was 203 cm or something like that. Also he was quite muscular, which is unusual for nobility. They thought physical labour was shamefull, but this guy liked to work with wood and build stuff, which has always upset the russian nobility. So I think he stood out, yeah.

[@perpelem]

Так приятно, когда про какую-либо вещь, касающуюся твоей страны, рассказывает не какой-то дядя из телевизора, а иностранец, которому это действительно интересно!

[@ElectroFeel]

абсолютно плюсую

[@creapchar180]

Даа

[@Mind_Attraction]

Белый - вата Синий - повальный алкоголизм Красный - коммунизм Всё просто.

[@lmnk]

+++ Такое надо включать на уроках истории в школах, а не монотонным голосом перечислять годы правления и все поездки всех правителей

[@timelordthemaster]

Потешили эго и хватит! Пора на завод, строить Т-90 🫶😍

[@thecowilsoninc4175]

Good lord, Tapakapa really knows how to hijack the algorithm with this lol.

[@sohopedeco]

At first, I thought that was the flag of the Basque country. But I just had an eye surgery this week and I'm wearing yellow-tinted glasses. It's not a very good time to judge colors.

[@meliilosona5272]

Check out Lithuanian flag and blue lenses

[@boffyb]

Stealing the design of a naval jack is technically known as jack-jacking.

[@kxmapper]

13:00 This is a very popular misconception, even Russian newspapers of the time got the idea of this flag wrong (as seen in the picture, it's written "new Russian national flag" there). It wasn't a national flag, it was just a nice sympol to be used by citizens. It has never replaced other flags and wasn't officially adopted as a civil/state/national flag. Modern tricolor was official in that time

[@CosmicSponge2004]

The confederate flag had stars. I thought everyone knew that

[@randomuser5443]

People see the shape of the bars and its simply more famous.

[@Milenakos]

A SINGLE MORE FLAG THUMBNAIL AND IM GONNA

[@MandarynkiPolskie]

?

[@2hotflavored666]

Your friend Ambatu Khan?

[@SwissestCheese]

@@2hotflavored666 He's on the ambatubus

[@Brocseespec]

​@@2hotflavored666 Nah, Ambata Bus is better /j

[@irp3ex]

yo milenakos

[@dartoxis2905]

Белый - это элегантность Синий - это свежесть Красный - это красивый

[@timotheatae]

The United Kingdom of Finland and Denmark! 🎉

[@lowersilesiamapping]

*Kingdom of Denmark-Norway

[@LincolnshireMapping]

​@@lowersilesiamapping🤓

[@lowersilesiamapping]

@@LincolnshireMapping *Person who wears glasses and has 2 teeth sticking out of their mouth, having yellow skin, actively smiling

[@LincolnshireMapping]

@@lowersilesiamapping 💀

[@hanifinio]

Bro went hard on him for no reason ​@@lowersilesiamapping

[@Marlin123]

A 16 minute Takapaka video? What did we do to earn this?

[@djleonard14]

Fun Fact: There's even more Italian cities at 1:20 with just the St. George's cross Just to name a few: Alessandria, Mantua, Reggio-Emilia, Novi, Cremona, (and if we wanna include white on red), Pavia, Como, Asti and Novara ...and this is likely not even all

[@granatapacifica]

ma salve, si ricorda di me?

[@djleonard14]

​@@granatapacifica Nome familiare ma non mi ricordo tanto bene

[@granatapacifica]

@@djleonard14 ogni tanto commentavi sotto a dei miei video mi ricordo che te avevi fatto una serie chiamata vessimologia una volta

[@djleonard14]

@@granatapacifica a sì hahaha era bella, ora faccio vessillologia proprio, specializzo della vessillologia di città infatti

[@harald_smth]

Great video mate, best regards from Russia. Also, maybe look into our city flags, they are hilarious sometimes.

[@grubo8884]

russia as a whole is pretty hilarious, a joke of a country

[@lemonov3031]

​@@grubo8884Not as much of a joke as cheeseburger land and euroarabic union.

[@grubo8884]

@@lemonov3031 coping with losses in ukraine

[@lemonov3031]

@@grubo8884 Ukraine winning so hard it's losing territory lol

[@happychayka]

​@@grubo8884🐽

[@antonfeirer3408]

As a graphic designer I absoluely love your videos and explanations. 14:10 had me absolutely rolling 🤣🤣

[@sub_bacchus]

When you consider the SSR flags would always fly with the Union flag I think they work pretty well

[@satanicturtle9929]

Great job with the video, they just keep getting better and better

[@PakBallandSami]

this is like the most cursed and blessed flag at the same time 💀

[@antimatter_nvf]

_blursed_

[@mastersafari5349]

"Like it says in the book, we are blessed and cursed" - Big Smoke

[@patrikfigo]

first the explanation of the flag grid-land-water-distinction-thing, and how you then applied it with the dots was really smart and made it easy to follow! Very well done :)

[@khazermashkes2316]

Thank you for teaching us about flags!

[@LakeGameCreepr]

The 1991 Russia flag wasn't actually a light blue, it's just a misinterpretation of the government explanation of the new flag. The "changing" of the shade was actually just a clarification of the shade of blue that they originally meant

[@dmitrypechenkov7115]

But in fact, the color of the flag was different until 1993. For example, in the Resolution of the Supreme Council of the RSFSR dated August 22, 1991 No. 1627/I-I, it was stated that the color of the flag is white-light blue-scarlet. In addition, the flag that was hung over the Kremlin after the collapse of the USSR can now be viewed at the Yeltsin Center in Yekaterinburg. You can see there that the colors are different from those now. I don't think it was just a misinterpretation

[@zuluoscarlima7822]

He definitely had the light blue stripe from 1991-1993. It was replaced later. Just go to the wiki article about the Russian flag, change to Russian lang and you will see two different flags next to each other.

[@sat_hite7858]

​@@zuluoscarlima7822Wikipedia is created by people, so the mere presence of two images there doesn't prove anything. If we refer to videos from those years, we can observe that at one time, flags with both light and dark stripes were used simultaneously. Interestingly, this is still the case today. Sometimes, even at official events, flags with light stripes are used, but this doesn't carry any additional meaning.

[@zuluoscarlima7822]

@@sat_hite7858 Постановление Верховного Совета РСФСР от 22 августа 1991 г. №1627/1-1

[@LakeGameCreepr]

@@zuluoscarlima7822 the wikipedia page is the origin of the misinformation. It sites zero source

[@CoffeeSuccubus]

Novorossiya: I wish i was in dixie. Ura, ura! Confederacy: Slav'ska Republika! Glorious Carolina!

[@somedesertdude1308]

lol

[@Turkiffy]

thank you for finally making this video and clearing this up

[@maytopian]

Great video as always. No idea how you're able to pack in so much information in a relatively short video

[@konradkhan.]

love the shirt Tapakapa!

[@TheLenmae]

I'm suprised you didn't take this opportunity to talk about how the Soviet union's flag had a different obverse and reverse

[@R4V3-0N]

Great video. Perfect watch to start my week.

[@SwagWizard_LemonGod]

Bro teaches me the history of my own country better then school does 💀

[@gwynbleiddd]

2:51 Railjet spotted! ❤

[@mane771000]

Another funny coincidence: both confederateand Novorussia flags are used by patriotic nationalists in both counties. Russian liberals can't stand Novorussia flag just as American liberals cannot stand the confederate flag.

[@notaplic8158]

Great to see you back, Big T.

[@w1nter.n94]

Thanks for video. As Russian, I learned some new things about our flag. And yeh, tsar's flag still in use, but only for some nationalists or some history things, like 3 flags near Lakhta Center in Saint Petersburg, (how I know) representing that Russian history is united and unique

[@konstantinfromkrasnoyarsk5941]

And the flag of the Soviet Union is also used and is called the “Victory Banner”; it hangs on some government buildings and military

[@ProtossOP]

Late to the party but that’s factually incorrect. The Victory Banner is a banner of a 150th rifle order, not the flag of Soviet Union.

[@Koyotis]

Флаг 1914го года (кажется, он назывался "флаг единения царя с народом") не был официальным флагом. Царская администрация предлагала использовать его на патриотических митингах, праздниках и в гражданском быту. Официальным оставался классический триколор. Кстати, сейчас он становится более популярным среди русских умеренных националистов. "Ельцинский" бело-лазарево-алый никогда не существовал. В те года не были установлены определенные номера за цветами полос флага и разные производства делали флаг каких угодно оттенков красного и синего. А спустя лет 20 кто-то закинул на Вики информацию, что лазарево-алый был якобы официальным и пошло-поехало.

[@IfEnjoinder]

[@k0lliak553]

15:13 This flag is mostly used as unofficial "Greater Russia" flag. Ive seen it being used in two means: it's either patriots that remember their glorious past or not-so-good people that want to return to the Russian Empire borders, usually with violent means.

[@macanaeh]

I don't think these are two different means. I'm Russian and to me it's unequivocally the imperialist/ethno-nationalist flag, ie the neo-nazi flag of choice

[@user-ou3bo8zz9b]

Our best flag

[@kirtil5177]

Sucks, i really love the black yellow white flag but not the political and ideological implications behind it, which are set in stone by now

[@TheRifild]

@@macanaeh i just like imperka more

[@Silver_Prussian]

And there are people like me,monarchists who dont feel so great a monarchist symbol is used by fascists and extremists.

[@joaovitormatos8147]

I'm a tapakapa subscriber, of course I know Chad's flag has a darker shade of blue than Romania's

[@ChuJungyin]

I know the shade of blue is the difference but watching it on my phone I didn't notice the switch.

[@Tapakapa]

Doing me proud. ^_^

[@ChuJungyin]

Senpai noticed me. /JK

[@JohnDoe-dg1dl]

Great video! (As always 😊)

[@MisatoBestWoman]

Absolutely love this KZbin recommendation I do love national flags, especially my own! (Canada) 🇨🇦

[@-25FJ25]

Bold of you to assume that I didn't notice that you switched the flags of Romania and Chad

[@HEKVT]

Great video, learned a lot in addition to some things I knew but it explained it well. The 1914 flag looks like one of the more cooler flags they had. Fun fact about the Soviet flags, the Emblem of the Latvian SSR had depicted the sun rising from the Baltic sea, but due to the geography of Latvia it's impossible, as the sun can only be seen over the sea during sunset.

[@dougmhd2006]

Here's a fundraising idea for the channel: an official Tapakapa 'asterisk' flag. As a flag nerd, I'd be happy to buy one. Something to keep in mind.

[@kovacs81gabor]

I noticed the switch, I was thinking, wait, isn't chad's flag the darker one? Maybe I remembered wrong; and then you confirmed that i was not going crazy

[@XnoobSpeakable]

Same

[@real.MinatoYellowFlash]

A similar design was used by Novorossiya as the War Flag

[@stratouse]

You did a great job about explaining our flag. Some people (not even from Russia) now know some more about our culture and flag. And about "царь (tsar)": you have a really good pronunciation. I'm using Busuu, and people there (not only beginners) having really bad pronunciation of that word time to time.

[@NeichoKijimura]

Naval Russian flag kinda goes hard

[@whapadoodle]

your best video to date!

[@georgeborisov7186]

At St. Petersburg there is now (1+ year already) where all 3 huge flags are at the same time:)

[@user-oi1tu5cu1w]

In Russia, the ribbon of the Order of St. George, with three black and two orange stripes, denotes that he was executed three times and resurrected twice. Soldiers often use it to denote friend or foe.

[@milkandgrapes3933]

I think I’m running either way lmao

[@alecsanlerthemoldavian]

I knew that you switched Romania's and Chad's flags

[@dkaloger5720]

I actually knew this because of some old paintings of naval battles

[@mofik26]

As a russian, I don't see how you could mix up the confederate flag and the navy flag. I mean they are quite different.

[@romad357]

I like how you have Dr. Whitney Smith's book "Flags Through the Ages and Across the World"; what are the other three?

[@hensleydodson5733]

Tapakapa always makes his titles like this.*

[@RisingFlag100]

I am happy i knew this

[@Brick-Life]

Awesome flags of Russia!

[@worldheraldry]

Great video!

[@CyrusThePython]

"Babe wake up Tapakapa posted a new video"

[@shrouddreamer]

4:33 I noticed that. The hue of the blue stripe on the flag of Chad should be same as on the French flag.

[@Benwut]

I saw this when I was visiting family in tunisia, and as a flag nerd my entire life, my concern levels began rising faster than goku's power level.

[@sevenpuHouvidim335]

I live in Vyborg, this flag is located on top of the Vyborg Castle

[@user-uo8bn9su3j]

guys if you right a story with a main character called jack and they have an evil twin, call the evil twin ensign

[@timediamond3921]

10:20 thats a really funny joke, i tüpflerlreiter hab ich schon lang nicht gehört. lol

[@oppenz3723]

This channel is criminally underrated

[@maitre_jx]

1:04 As de la jungle reference ?!

[@ivanalexeev6505]

As a Russian I can confirm that changing our flag from 2:1 and light blue stripe to 2:3 and blue stripe was a terrible mistake.

[@resolvanlemmy]

I remember being a critic of the new art style you used in the last video. It still hasn't grown on me, but I hope it doesn't look as ugly as last time at least, the stick figures were just so iconic.

[@zahunter8077]

is the music that starts playing at 11:10 the rimworld authoritarian ideology music or is it something else?

[@shu93129]

What's with the different logo? Did @CGPGrey finally trademark stick figures?

[@Nadia1989]

After monetising the comments section, anything is possible

[@ProteinFromTheSea]

To be clear, even if it was the flag of the Confederacy, it wouldn’t be American at all.

[@user-we7pb4fk8r]

Nearly everyone of today's innumerable three-stripe national flags- A U S T R I A N O T -descends from this one flag... Got me rollin

[@decem_sagittae]

Saints are venerated, not "worshipped".

[@OVER9000_YT]

Большое спасибо за такое замечательное видео, интересный исторический экскурс получился.

[@zork999]

Did I miss where you actually show the Confederate Flag? That seems like a large omission. Also, the "National Flag" of the CSA is not what you are thinking about. The original National Flag has a blue field in the upper left with seven white stars in a circle and then three bars (red/white/red) for the rest of the flag (the "Stars and Bars"). What you are probably thinking about (and never show) is the Confederate Battle Flag which has the blue cross (called the "Southern Cross") with 13 stars (for the 11 states in the CSA plus two states, Missouri and Kentucky which they hoped would join) on a field of Red. This was later adapted for use on the second National Flag which had the Southern Cross in the upper left and the rest of the flag white (not a great choice). They later added a red bar at the far end of the field of white.

[@GreenPoint_one]

Great video :3

[@troclasklk3118]

aye shoutout from basque country

[@truebender]

Yes, kinda resembles Novorossya

[@real.MinatoYellowFlash]

Seeing the thumbnail alone, that flag is the Russian Naval Jack

[@aeluzarii]

oh, so you're saying that it's an undisputed flag now... because the issue is that we have one more flag to add to the dispute! some people also want to return the soviet flag and keep waving them on the streets often! 😅and the insane part is... some people wave multiple flags at once... it's pretty normal to see ppl waving both monarchist and communist flags at once in Russia, that just shows how chaotic Russia's modern ideology is lmao

[@somecyrillicletters]

Lol, yeah, not surprising for the land of Nazbol

[@user-lp6yx7ml7h]

@@somecyrillicletters This is not nazbol. It's just that some people are communists, some are monarchists.

[@happychayka]

​@@user-lp6yx7ml7h they just love their history 🥰

[@thrwwccnt5845]

@@happychayka what is there to love?

[@Gleaves]

​@@happychaykanah, those who wave both communist and monarchist flags are patriots of "Powerful russia" - ideological construct about strong nation with totalitarian government, but without any actual ideology besides "History is sacred and governments must never be questioned". Kinda what current leader tries to do

[@aycc-nbh7289]

So is this what people mean when they say “3 stripes for life”?

[@lucaswiese6]

4:30 acutally i did notice, romanias blue is suppoesed to be brighter than chad

[@TheStickCollector]

I wonder if alabama got inspired after seeing this or not. -too lazy to search right now-

[@chrisca]

5:24 Sacred War theme begins to play

[@PeakSocietyGaming]

I hear music that was used in the mod imperial splendor for empire total war please hook me up with the name of it

[@safebox36]

"An unofficial flag just needs to be used long enough by enough people." Then there's Northern Ireland / Ulster, the region that's so contentious with flags that the historical St Patrick's Saltire agreed upon by both sides doesn't get used by either anymore...so no flag, official or unofficial.

[@AppIePineapple]

I think it would like nice as a flag of Primorye Krai

[@Brocseespec]

when i look at the thumbnail i thought it was a British flag for a sec 💀💀💀

[@ChuJungyin]

Shame shame shame 🔔. /JK

[@kxmapper]

Wait until Confederation fans hear about Novorossiya flag

[@_landro_1092]

Großartig, just because you're a nerd. Bei der zweiten Erwähnung des drachentötenden Georgs im Zarenwappen hättest Du hier Saint Schurl sagen können, nur um die Amis zu verwirren. ;-D

[@REDDERICH]

Who the heck is a Big Pete?)) lmao) Mb I don't get the joke in english ... But it's a Peter the Great (sounds closer to the original).. I just cringed when heard 'Big Pete' 🤡

[@robloxmemedudes]

what.. what happened to the stick figures.. and why is it all flags?

[@AntonKulikov]

He's just re-tracing CGP's steps :)

[@robloxmemedudes]

@@AntonKulikov it's terrifying me

[@d.dean42973]

0:38 what's the book on the top of the stack

[@petitkruger2175]

this is a banging video

[@illiaboiko7354]

What about soviet naval ensign?

[@johannesmajamaki2626]

Also appreciate how the Finnish military flags turn the cross into a sword