Литовский триколор — важный символ государства, который гордо несли партизаны послевоенного времени, в советское время за его демонстрацию людей сажали в тюрьмы.
However, the Lithuanian flag looks the way it does purely by chance. Few people know that another design was prepared in 1940, but it was not approved by law in time.
«When I was in , I traveled to Burma and saw the Lithuanian flag there. The colors are the same. Our tricolor was created by three people. , Antanas Žmuidzinavičius and Tadas Daugirdas. They sat down together and decided what the flag would look like. I think Žmuidzinavičius dictated, as his artwork has many colors like that,» said collector and historian Vilius Kavaliauskas.
The other version of the Lithuanian flag was green, white, red. The historian explained the logic behind these colors. Yellow was considered the color of during the Tsarist era. The Lithuanian regiment in the Tsarist army had yellow chevrons.