National Bolshevik Party of Belarus

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National Bolshevik Party of Belarus
Белорусское отделение НБП

The National Bolshevik Party of Belarus is modelled after the same-named Russian party. It is not officially registered, but seems to operate without problems. It considers Russians and Belarusians one nation and supports the unification of two countries, although it opposes the current Russian government.
Source - Wikipedia page about the party (in Russian): http://ru.wikipedia.org

image by Tomislav Todorovic, 30 May 2009

Considering the frequency of different flags as seen at the party website, the most widely used one is red flag with the ratio 2:3, best viewed here:
http://nbel.org/photo/pervoeshestvie/4.jpg.
Tomislav Todorovic, 30 May 2009

image by Tomislav Todorovic, 30 May 2009

Red flag with the ratio 1:2 is much less used; best viewed here: http://nbel.org/photo/anticapitalism2005/9.JPG
Tomislav Todorovic, 30 May 2009

image by Tomislav Todorovic, 30 May 2009

The least used is black flag with the ratio 1:2 - see here: http://nbel.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=128:-q---q&catid=34:2009-04-21-15-09-03&Itemid=56

The black flag with the ratio 2:3 was not seen so far.
Tomislav Todorovic, 30 May 2009

image by Tomislav Todorovic, 30 May 2009
based on image by Željko Heimer and Zach Harden

At the top of all party web pages <nbel.org> is shown the image of a flag based on that of the Byelorussian SSR, but replacing the golden hammer, sickle and red star with the large white disc, charged with the black hammer and sickle, in the centre.
Tomislav Todorovic, 30 May 2009

image by Tomislav Todorovic, 30 May 2009
based on image by Mark Sensen and Antonio Martins.

This has recently replaced an earlier image, showing the similar flag based on the current flag of Belarus. Neither of these flag designs was confirmed to be used in real life so far, so they remain just flagoids for now. Other than this, the party members regularly use the undifferenced current national flag along with the party flags (see the photos listed above).

All the images on this page are based on the Wikipedia image of National Bolshevik flag: http://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A4%D0%B0%D0%B9%D0%BB:National_Bolshevik_Party.svg, which seems to show the best approximation of the form of the hammer and sickle used on most of copies of the described flags. It shall be noted that this is just one of many variants of the emblem, which varies a lot in Belarus as well as in Russia. This can be expected, because the flags are often home-made, or at least not always manufactured according to the same pattern.
Tomislav Todorovic, 30 May 2009

image by Tomislav Todorovic, 30 May 2009
based on images by Željko Heimer and Zach Harden and a Wikipedia image of National Bolshevik flag

The header of the party web pages <http://nbel.org> currently shows an image: http://nbel.org/logo.png of two flags: at the right-hand side, the typical National Bolshevik red flag with black hammer and sickle on a white disc, and at the left-hand side, a flag created from the national flag by adding a similar white disc with black hammer and sickle, fimbriated black, to the flag centre. Just as for the two similar flag designs described above, the real-life use of this one was not confirmed so far and the undifferenced national flag and the National Bolshevik flags with the plain fields, either red or black, remain the only confirmed flags used by the Belarusian national Bolsheviks.
Tomislav Todorovic, 18 January 2010