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 * The Czech Flag** [[image:czech flag 2.png width="399" height="272"]]

The flag of the Czech republic is the same flag as the former Czechoslovakia. The Flag features a white bar on top, a red bar on bottom and a blue triangle on the left side. The red and white bar are both the same size. The blue triangles point ends at exactly the middle of the flag. The contrast against the red a white bars creates an optical illusion that the triangle appears to end short of center. The flag was officially approved by Czechoslovakia on March 30th 1920. The red and white bands came from the coat of arms of Bohemia. They added the blue triangle because with out it the flag was the same as Poland’s. This flag has been in use ever since except during Nazi occupation of 1939-1945, The Prague Spring 1968, and the Velvet Revolution 1989. The Czech's continued use of this flag was actually a violation of law. When Czechoslovakia split into the Czech and Slovak republics in 1992 they created laws about the dissolution. One of these laws was that neither the Czech or Slovak republics could use any of the state symbols of Czechoslovakia. After the Slovak republic issued a new flag the Czech republic decided to continue using the old one. This angered the Slovak's. The Czech's basically said they didn’t care, that law was written by Czechoslovakia and they no longer exist so they cant enforce the law.

By: Brandon Driscoll