A review of a flag sold by Amazon.
I've never seen this peculiar flag before. Apparently,
it was used by the Czech-nationality Jan Zizka Brigade of the Yugoslav Partisan
resistance movement against the Nazis during World War II. Zizka was a 15th
century Hussite and Taborite commander, regarded as a national hero by the
Czechs.
Later, this flag (really the Czechoslovak flag with a Communist Yugoslav star superimposed) apparently became the symbol of the small Czech minority living in Vojvodina and Croatia, then parts of Tito's Yugoslavia. Since many people “back in the days” confused Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia, this flag (had it been more widely known) would simply have added to the confusion…
My source is the website Flags of the World, which references an obscure Yugoslav publication, “Cehoslovacka brigada Jan Ziska”, published in the small Croatian town of Daruvar in 1988.
Amazing. You learn something new every day.
Later, this flag (really the Czechoslovak flag with a Communist Yugoslav star superimposed) apparently became the symbol of the small Czech minority living in Vojvodina and Croatia, then parts of Tito's Yugoslavia. Since many people “back in the days” confused Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia, this flag (had it been more widely known) would simply have added to the confusion…
My source is the website Flags of the World, which references an obscure Yugoslav publication, “Cehoslovacka brigada Jan Ziska”, published in the small Croatian town of Daruvar in 1988.
Amazing. You learn something new every day.
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