Explaining a ton of mysterious flags we found 

J.J. McCullough thanks for including this in the comments thats what’s I’m looking for lol

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9:24 Hate to break it to you JJ but this is incorrect. Namibia was never a part of South Africa. It was militarily occupied and under the purview of the South African government but it was always a separate entity

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@@Edmonton-of2ec Hate to break it to you, but South West Africa was a territory under South African rule, AKA a part of South Africa. This is like saying Puerto Rico is not a part of the USA because it does not have equal status. Yes, the annexation was considered illegal under international law, but it being illegal does not erase the fact that it happened. You can say it was unjust, I agree, but South West Africa was functionally a part of the country of South Africa. Namibia also officially traces its independence to 1990, which was when South Africa agreed to it. Are Namibians wrong about their own view on their independence, and it is you who is correct? Seems unlikely. Your argument denies reality at worst, and makes a semantic argument on what it means to be a part of a state at best.

They do so I believe to not get confused for the similarly sounding and spelled Zambia and Namibia.

The Netherlands and The Philippines?

The only country I know that people often say "the" but they prefer without is Ukraine.

@@sohopedeco Also in Italian. In Italian, Italy is L'Italia.

@@sohopedeco Actually, no. Don't confuse using the article in a *sentence* ("A França é bonita") with the article actually being a *part* of the country's name (in Portuguese, the name of France is "França", not "A França"). In our sister language, Galician, yes, articles are often part of the actual name of places, but not in Portuguese. We say "O Porto fica no Norte" (Porto is in the North), but that "O" is not part of the city's name: at the entrance of Porto the sign just says "Porto", not "O Porto" (likewise on a map). By contrast, in Galician, yes, you have a sign reading "A Coruña" at the entrance to that city, and a map will show "A Coruña" (or, if in Spanish, "La Coruña").

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@@JJMcCullough 12:02 in portuguese (I'm understand because I'm Brazil Portugal ex's colony in south America) it's means national union for total independence of Angola.keep it up men. Always great work.

@@JJMcCullough the last flag is probably dawat-e-slami. Muslim missionary in Pakistan.

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It might be up there because of the Tigray involvement in the revolution against the Derg?

@@aaronblygh4719 could be

@Francescopaolo Ragozini Thanks for that man. I thought it was something to do with it.

He also mistook the United front/CNT/Zapatista flag for the Sandinista flag. Difference is that the black and red is tilted.

Are you Canadian? I’ve only ever heard my fellow Canadians say kerfuffle

Vexing vexillology sounds really cool!

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Correct. I just looked it up

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It's older than Irish independence. Of course, we also still have the Royal Dublin Society, the Royal College of Surgeons, and a few others. And I attended the College of the Most Holy Trinity established by Queen Elizabeth near Dublin.

TRiG (Ireland) quite right, all very good organisations which do very good work across Ireland, and the RCS across both countries

No one really leaves the empire.

Aviator I’m not sure the people of Ireland would appreciate that but go off I guess. The simple fact is that these are charities and organisations completely independent of the Crown or the British government, and are simply called that because they were given a royal charter before independence. You would need t find any recent examples of an Irish organisation (in the Republic at least) that has a new royal charter.

@@j3ojos I am of Ireland. I wouldn't say a new royal charter, but national defence is more or less outsourced to the British.

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BCIA- British Columbia International Airport (real one is Beijing Capital International Airport)

@@Brick-Life A-Airport

An excellent point. On "The" Ukraine, I wonder if this confusion is related to "The" UK. It's perfectly fine to say the latter (not correct technically but no one in the UK will correct you). And once you say "The UK", the tongue naturally goes to "raine".

@@stevensutton4677 it's due to Ukraine being a Russo-slav word for borderlands, and saying "The Ukraine" kinda sounds like your calling it the Russian border.

@@stevensutton4677 Like the other dude said, the Ukraine’s name comes from the fact that it was created more or less to act as a buffer (or boarder) zone to other powers in Europe.

But it still is a little strange, since in portuguese we still don't use the article withouth any context. Moreover, The Gambia [River] and The Gambia have opposite genders in Portuguese.

​@topperbland1232 isn't "The Ukraine" the short form of "The Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic?"

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@@OHYS same

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F L E X (T A P E ) P E R T

IDK, it's easier to pronounce.

You are correct that UNITA (USA-backed) fought the MPLA (Russian/Cuban-backed) in the 70s and 80s (and UNITA is still an opposition to the MPLA today). Until the 1980s, UNITA was also a communist group, more specifically Maoist (maybe that's why China also briefly backed UNITA until 1975). However, in the late 1970s, UNITA became a right-wing conservative party with American and South African aid. After the Cold War, MPLA also made some changes to become a democratic socialist party. How interesting that what was once two communist parties is now a conservative party and a democratic socialist party. For more information: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UNITA

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@@SoooooWhatt No the original commenter is right read the article you linked. They aligned more with the west and anti-communism in the early 1980s in order to gain support from the US and South Africa in the civil war.

@@playboicartiismydad4842 I see: so it was communist with Chinese aid until 1975, then anti-communist with American/South African aid in the 1980s. Makes a bit more sense (I realized it later, have now updated the original comment).

Until 1977 UNITA was communist. In 1977 Savimbi, their leader changed is mind and gave a speech resigning from his marxist views and denouncing them.

João Vitor Matos it can be two things!

João Vitor Matos Black and Red is the traditional AnarchoCommunist flag

J.J. McCullough you are right about the colours, but not about the pattern! The Anarchist flag is divided diagonally, just like the one presented at the Art exhibit

Yup it's the flag of the anarcho-syndicalists from the Spanish Civil War. Specifically the union called the CNT.

@@guillaumenoire7059 It's the general anarcho-communist/anarcho-collectivist flag. It's used worldwide. The CNT version includes the white CNT siglas in the center, at least that's what I know from pictures and the stickers around the streets

I think it's mostly Ukraine that has rebranded the 'The' from its name.

@@aymervalence because "ukraine" means "borderland", and a "the" provokes the question "of where?". Aha - of course - of Russia. Oops.

@@1258-Eckhart I take issue with this. It isn't the "the" that provokes the question, it's the "ukraine" part... Honestly they should have just come up with a better name. Is there no historical term for that region?

PiousMoltar PiousMoltar Ukrainians are fine with the name, theres no need to change it due to how engrained it is. Though if it were renamed, it would probably be called Ruthenia or smth. The problem most certainly is “the”. It’s seen as a thing of the past, specifically from soviet times and therefore when Ukraine was part of Russia.

The@@kostakoffe1167 There is no way a sane person could feel insulted by the word “the.”

Okay, I admit, I would watch that movie

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HOI4?

@@LegoLiam1803 idk but certainly irl

Calmirdonnvs Rex in the latest HOI4 dlc, the anarchistic uprising in Catalonia can happen. It bares the same flag.

The CNT-FAI "Expropriated" at least one Packard 12 or Super Eight sedan, and painted their initials on the front doors.

came to the comments to say this / see if anyone had caught it

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@@sohopedeco "Clove" is not "cravo", but "cravinho".

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@@sohopedeco Ah, as in "Gabriela, cravo e canela"? Never thought about that... :D In Portugal we always (to my knowledge) use "cravinho" (which, for the non-Portuguese speakers, is something like "little carnation").

An (almost) bloodless revolution that has been held up as a model of its kind, although it was... a bit chaotic, to say the least. But it worked, and I say "Up Democratic Portugal".

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No, he dies in 1994

I think the quote is from a comedy news broadcast aired in 1994. Norm McDonald was a well known comedian in the 1990s.

Allan Richardson He hosted Weekend Update on SNL.

tktru Thanks. That fits what I remember about him and the Yippee party (more formally the Youth International Party, YIP).

Every ferry on the Irish Sea has donation boxes!

It was a very weird experience. Other people must have had their flags be seen as obscure but seeing such a ubiquitous flag be unknown is strange, even if it makes sense.

Yeah I felt the same. I have probably known of that RNLI flag since Blue Peter did an appeal in the 90s for them.

I'm Dutch & i was like; hey those are from the life boats. Here in NL the same type of organisation was first called KNZHRM before it got simplified to KNRM. Easier on the logo & flag.

Joel, I was surprised to see a Spanish-surnamed dude chime in about Azerbaijan. Do you prefer "Yahn" or "Zhan?"

Yeah, his pronunciation was funny.

his pronunciation was typical from what I hear. Maybe us Canadians do it differntly

@@TexasGI47life zhan in english, yan in spanish

Well I hate to break it to you Spanish speakers but it's certainly not "yan" in Azerbaijani. It's a J as in "jump".

Fun fact: the official name for a flag-spert is a "vexillophile"

That skull and crossbones looks pretty different though. On the actual flag, the skull is much smaller, and there is text, where the one in the video has more detail. Might be another anarchist group, though.

@@tex8788 Not the Ancom flag unless tilted at 45 degrees, same goes with Ancap and the Swastika

@@jerrell1169 7:05 the colors are clearly split diagonally while in the Sandinista flag they're split horizontally. It's the Ancom flag

I thought that too, ut thenI found out it was associated with them, but the group itself never used it.

Pedro Figueira My avô was one of the soldiers fighting for Portugal. He isn’t authoritarian.

I see how these replies about the "IT" in "UNITA" and it's legacy (in the war with the MPLA) is interesting. I kind of want to clarify the authoritarians of that war: the MPLA were Russian/Cuban-backed communists, while UNITA was a Maoist group backed by China until 1975, before becoming a right-wing conservative party aided by South Africa and the United States until 1992. MPLA became a democratic socialist party in the 1990s ("democratic" as in "multi-party elections", as Angola is still authoritarian), while UNITA continues being a right-wing conservative party; but in the 1970s, both were different opposing communist groups that each became less communist. More info: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MPLA (for the ruling party and former Russian puppets), en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UNITA (for those who once were communists turning into anti-communists), and en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democracy_Index (scroll down until you see Angola).

Came here for this.

I think it would be more accurate to say that the flag belonged to the Revolutionary Insurrectionary Army of Ukraine, rather than the Free Territory. The Free Territory was just that: a stateless region. Hard for such a place to have any kind of "official" flag. But in any case I believe there is some speculation that the flag that is commonly attributed to the RIAU actually belonged to a different group. Complicated!

Except it is not really. It has never been used but is often associated with them, it was probably a concept flag or something.

Too late

Well,that was pretty smart

Because it is, the ensign

Well did you South African one

You better find the South African one now

@@Aidan_US Dawat-e-Islami flag btw. Just saw further down comments.

@@SalutExpla Dawat-e-Islami flag

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Green is a colour of both Ethiopia and Islam, isn't it? That begins to suggest a line of enquiry.

It's this flag: www.maktabatulmadina.net/ProductDetails/51730/Misc/3-Colour-Madani-Flag-(Good-Quality-NPH)---Large-92cm-x-62cm.aspx

I am sure that everyone knows something. It just may not be what you, Ewan ewants.

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@@socialistazania5132 Hi there! We're you ever able to learn what the flag meant? I am curious if it was ever solved.

E.G. Santiago you are too kind my friend

@@JJMcCullough where and how do I send you a flag mystery I need to get solved??

Vexillologist.

The letter 4 boring, flagspert is where it’s at

Flagspert - he spurteth flags

nahh its already solved www.uihere.com/free-cliparts/flag-mawlid-dawat-e-islami-symbol-islami-1973870

it's the "Dawat-e-Islami" flag. Dawat-e-Islami is based in Pakistan images.app.goo.gl/ycpUHWR9R9edcsyCA

It was solved within the first hour of this video being up.

Angola is rightfully Portuguese.

Actually, "National Union *for* *the* Total Independence of Angola". And it was not a Marxist movement, by the contrary. It was a anti-Marxist movement funded by the US and Apartheid-era South Africa to oppose MPLA (supported by the USSR).

@@GazilionPT My bad, I wanted to put for the instead of it because I had of in my head

@@GazilionPT It was actually Maoist (aided by China) until the late 1970s, then anti-communist. Nevertheless, after the late 1970s, it was supported by the USA and South Africa (when the former was in a Cold War, and the latter was racist) in UNITA's fight against the MPLA (backed by the USSR and Cuba). Commies against commies, am I right?: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UNITA

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Lennon Tyner The technical term is flagspert

J.J. McCullough oh my bad sorry 😂

Hold up, YOU ARE WATCHING THIS TOO? And I thought I was the only logo fan that was here.

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Was the black emblem a wheel shaped like this☸? Because many Buddhist flags have the colours red blue and yellow (along with white and orange) and also contain this wheel (aka Dharmachakra).

I was expecting like a blood head or something but i was also disappointed

@@KingNoob7 I was expecting a swastika of some sort