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Lithuanian National Youth
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Union of Lithuanian Political Prisoners and Deportees

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Lithuanian National Youth

by Audrius Slapsinskas, 26 August 2003

Emblem
Audrius Slapsinskas, 26 August 2003

Information recieved from from Mr. M. Kundrotas, chairman of the League of the Lithuanian National Youth (Lietuviu tautinio jaunimo lyga - <tautinelyga.dokeda.lt>): The emblem of the League of the Lithuanian National Youth - The black shield is charged with three red bands. It symbolizes two conective aspects of Nation - the blood and the earth. There is two national flags of Lithuania Major and Lithuania Minor on top. White circle with three flames symbolizes the originality and the concurrent of three ethnic and historic parts of Lithuania - Lithuania Minor, Lithuania Major and Samogitia (equivalent in Poland: Great Poland, Little Poland, and Mazovia). This symbol was published for the first time in the press of Lithuania Minor on the junction of 19th and 20th centuries. White circle symbolizes continued perfection (circle), light (white color) and Baltic culture.
The flag of the League of the Lithuanian National Youth - The flag has same motive just the shield is replaced with cross and circle. This is an oldiest ornamet in the world. It means harmony of difference in movement: the cross passes into circle through swastika.
Audrius Slapsinskas, 26 August and 6 October 2003

New Union (Social Liberals)

I located the flag of the New Union (Social Liberals) - Naujoji Sajunga (Socialliberalai) at <www.nsajunga.lt>.
Audrius Slapsinskas, 24 November 2003

Union of Lithuanian Political Prisoners and Deportees

note: probably wrong colours
by Victor Lomantsov, 2 September 2000

I saw a photo of this flag in newspaper in 1991 (Vilnius, 1991, demonstrations agains Soviets). Anybody knows what is it?
The flag was white-red-white triband with the heart in the centre. The heart was surmounted with a cross and charged with lithuanian "columns".
Victor Lomantsov, 2 September 2000

White-red white stood for whole Grand Duchy of Lithuania (present-day Lithuania, Byelarus, Ukraine; after 1569 Ukraine ceded to Poland).
If I were to guess, it looks like Lithuanian GDL - nationalist Catholics flag.
Bartek Kachniarz, 4 September 2000

I am unsure of what the colors mean. However, Mr. Kachniarz's explanation of the colors makes sense. The charge in the middle of the flag is the symbol of the Sajudis movement of the late 1980's-early 1990's. It was an independence movement, largely behind most anti-Soviet demonstrations, such as the "singing revolution".
Nicholas Lusas, 13 July 2001

All these comments are incorrect. The sign - the heart surmounted with a cross and charged with Columns of the Gediminas family - is an emblem of the Union of Lithuanian Political Prisoners and Deportees (Lietuvos politiniu kaliniu ir tremtiniu sajunga - <www.lpkts.lt>). I am not sure but middle red band should be replaced with Lithuanian tricolor, i.e. yellow-green-red. Anyway I asure you that displayed tricolor (white-red-white) is incorrect. Because it is national colors of white Russians and we, Lithuanians, do not use them.
Audrius Slapsinskas, 27 December 2002