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It was agreed sometime in the twenties that sky/cornflower
blue was the Finnic colour and should be used on all Finnic
flags. This idea must have been agreed outside the Soviet Union,
while the Russian Civil war was still going on, i.e.,
before the Soviets had the opportunity to impose their
vexillological hegemony.
Finns,
Karelians,
Estonians,
Vepsi,
Komi,
Ingrians and
Livs all use skyblue
as do the Nenets,
Yamal Nenets, the
Mari
and Mordvins,
(which is why these last two have a different shade of
blue in their otherwise Russian colours).
James Oates, 13 Aug 1999 and 15 Aug 1999
Who made this agreement, anyway? Considering the peoples
listed, it was surely someone or something connected with
Russia. Some pan-finnic connection of the White forces?…
It sure seems to me that such agreement was very poorly
enforced over the time and eventually forgotten — especially
when one notices the progressive darkening of the Finnish
flag itself (1918,
1920 and
1978)…
António Martins, 15 Aug 1999
Cornflower blue (as ambiguous as it is) is used to describe
the estonian flag blue shade, which
is not a light shade (anymore?).
António Martins, 15 Aug 1999
The initial discription of the blue in the first Estonian
constitution specifically says that it should be the same blue
as the Finnish Cross.
James Oates, 15 Aug 1999
The current Karelian flag is supposedly
derived from the Karelo-Finnish SSR
flag, which was light blue — in what might be nothing but
a coincidence in respect of the above agreement.
The historical Karelian cross-flag
of green, black and red, doesn’t agree with the above sky blue
agreement, but it was adopted in 1920, before that very
same agreement. In 1930 a new Karelian
flag was proposed (for the exile government, naturally),
with a white field with a blue cross bordered in yellow. This
might have been the refered sky blue, since it was clearly a
variation of the finnish flag.
António Martins, 15 Aug 1999