The dirtiest flag is the red-white-blue 'tricolor' used by the Vlasov traitors. Now it is the flag of our armed forces again, thanks to our pressure upon Mr. Well, we do not recognize any flag but the hammer and sickle red flag. George cross, other than that it looks cooler than the 1883 tricolor. I'm not certain why Diplomacy used the St. I'm sure (as Joonaz said) that it was used as the naval flag, but I think it was used also as the military flag (some short-lived states in Siberia incorporated the blue cross into their state flags.) George cross, AFAIK, was used as the military flag. That is to say (I think) that the army didn't fly them, and merely civil services of the tsar. Kerensky's government actually added the coat of arms in the canton in 1917.īoth of these flags were civil flags, not national. The red-white-blue flag was brought up in 1883 for use in place of the black-yellow-white flag, since people seemed to like those colours beter. White, it seems, was a symbol for that in the nineteenth century. It doesn't seem that anyone liked it the black and yellow came from the tsar's coat of arms which made dissidents everywhere have something to spit at, and to make it worse, the white (which was added to keep it from looking identical to the Hapsburg colours) was added ostensibly as a symbol of the legitimate autocracy of Russia. The 'black-yellow-white' flag was employed until 1883 (in a limited way).

White flag vs red flag empire game