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image by Christina Janke, 25 September 2006 and Tomislav Todorović,
13 June 2010
Image of real flag at <latvia.nb-info.org>
Christina Janke, 25 September 2006
This image is a modification of those was created by Christina Janke. The
photo of this flag can be seen at the current
party website and it served as
the model for the image modification.
Tomislav Todorović, 13 June 2010
Variants of flag
image by Tomislav Todorović, 13 June 2010
A variant of this flag with both the disc
and the hand grenade larger and the aspect ratio about 3:5 was seen at a
rally in Riga on 2009-02-16. The disc seems to be set off-centre, but it is difficult to tell if it was
meant to be so or it was just the imprecise home-making. (This is why the disc
in the attached image is centred.)
Tomislav Todorović, 13 June 2010
image by Tomislav Todorović, 20 June 2010
image by Tomislav Todorović, 20 June 2010
The flags with the same basic design, but with black field, were seen at the
rally in Riga on 2009-05-25.
They had the aspect ratio of either 2:3 or 1:2.
Tomislav Todorović, 20 June 2010
image by Tomislav Todorović, 30 April 2012
What follows is the update to my earlier contribution:
The red flag charged with the hand grenade on a white disk is sometimes used
with aspect ratio 1:1. Such
flags were seen in
Riga, on 2005-05-07, during protests against the visit of U.S. President George
W. Bush to Latvia. The flags were used together with those with aspect ratio
3:5. This version of flag is created as the modification of the image above.
Tomislav Todorović, 30 April 2012
image by Tomislav Todorović and Victor Lomantsov,
29 January 2010
At WEB-pages of "Tribunal" - bulletin of Latvian
National-Bolsheviks <tribunal.narod.ru> (defunct), I have
found proposed flag of Latvia after possible in the future
victory of National Bolshevik party in this country. The
inscription (in Russian): "Flag of Latgalian
National-Bolshevik Republic, 2005". In my image I used
colours closed to Latvian flag. I don't sure in it, because the
image of the flag in the site is "waved". Maybe it
is plain red. National-Bolshevik Party is not Communist
(but they use popular H&S symbols). It is a Neu-Nazi party.
Victor Lomantsov, 27 April 2003
Latgalia is a province in the south-eastern part of Latvia.
Latgalia has a political and cultural history different from that
of the rest of the Latvia which were long under German-Swedish
rule and thus became marked by German-Swedish culture. Latgalia
remained under Polish-Lithuanian rule until 1772, when it was
ceded to the Russian Empire. Today, this part of Latvia is almost
entirely inhabited by ethnic Russians. Oddly enough, only the
tiny minority of ethnic Latvians in this part of Latvia are today
called "Latgalians".
On the same "Nationalist Bolshevik" website there is an
article about a radar station in Latgalia which recently has been
set up by the Latvian Government in order to meet NATO standards.
The article's heading is "Genocide"...
Kristian Söderberg, 28 April 2003
Nazi-Bolsheviks in Latvia is very active but a small movement.
In any occasion they have demonstrations, piquets and other
activities. In organization they are close to analogue Russian
party (National Bolshevik Party).
In all activities they fly Nazi-like flag (red with white ring)
with hammer and sickle. Without any white band.
Latgalia is almost entirely Latvian (Latgalian) excluding
Daugavpils, Ludza and 10 rural parishes. But Daugavpils is 2nd
biggest city in Latvia and greatest in Latgalia and in this case
Latvians and non-Latvians are 50:50. Non-Latvians include very
big minorities of Poles and Belarusians.
Gvido Pētersons, 28 April 2003
This flag may be seen at the current Web site of the bulletin
"Tribunal" (the site which served as Mr Lomantsov's
source is closed), whose homepage: <www.tribunal.times.lv>
contains a screenshot of its earlier version, where the flag is
clearly seen as employing the same shade of red as in the flag of
Latvia.
Tomislav Todorović, 29 January 2010
image from <www.nss.lv>
It seems this is some ultra-nationalist party. However, they
have a flag at <www.nss.lv>.
Valentin Poposki, 30 July 2006
image by Ree Fischer, 4 December 2005
There is a Scandinavian-cross version of the Latvian flag.
The version has been created by a non-governmental organisation
and later a political party, For the National Independence of
Latvia, in the early 1990's. Nordic ideas were among those
vividly discussed in the society. The discussion still continues,
yet is not getting much attention in the media. Ratio 19:26 with
the cross shifted to the left.
Ree Fischer, 4 December 2005