Betrayed by stripes? Czech PM caught carrying ‘Russian’ tie throughout celebration of anti-Soviet rebellion

The Czech prime minister needed to change his tie throughout final Sunday’s celebration of the 30th anniversary of the Velvet Revolution. The one he picked up within the morning turned out to be too “Russian” for such an event.

Andrej Babis began public appearances in the course of the festivities marking Czech Republic’s cold anti-Communist rebellion carrying a diagonal stripped tie. The stripes have been white, blue and crimson, identical to the Czech nationwide flag. However the order was all fallacious.

Whereas the flag itself, which the nation inherited from Czechoslovakia, has two horizontal bands and a triangle, the flag of the wartime Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia had three bands ordered white, crimson and blue. The protectorate got here and went together with the Nazi Germany, however the shade order caught and is now thought-about the nationwide tricolor of the Czech Republic.

So it was a fake pas for Babis to put on the colour ordered white, blue and crimson, doubly so as a result of that’s the tricolor of the Russian flag (in addition to Slovakia and Slovenia). By night, when the prime minister was delivering a speech on the Nationwide Museum, his tie was consistent with the nationwide colours projected on the constructing behind his again.

The PM defined the error in an interview with the newspaper Dnes, saying he had been given some 40 ties by supporters amongst public figures throughout a sure behind-closed-doors occasion. So he took a fallacious one by mistake, and no person amongst his associates seen it in time.

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So consider it or not. In any case, Babis was a member of the Communist social gathering and is likely one of the wealthiest businessmen in his nation. Communism and oligarchs are soooooo Russian, as some pundits would lead us to consider.

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