Flag of Chechnya depicted on the right. Its proportions are approximately 7:11. The color scheme is green, white, red, white, green, with the upper two thirds of the flag in green and the remaining one third in white, red, white and green stripes of equal width. Another well known example is similar to this flag but has the country's coat of arms incorporated into the design. Each color is meant to sympbolize an aspect of the Chechen national character. Green is the color of life, red symbolizes the blood shed in the struggle for freedom and white represents the road to a bright
Flag of Ukraine flags were the same. The new Ukrainian flag consisted of a red (top, 2/3) and a azure (bottom, 1/3) stripes, with the golden star, hammer and sickle in the top left corner. The Communist party leaders such as Khrushchev and Kaganovich were afraid of using words "light blue" and "blue" which were used by the Ukrainian diaspora. During the Soviet period, there were multiple unsanctioned attempts to hoist the national blue-and-yellow flag. In 1958 in village of Verbytsia, there was established an underground group, members of which at night were raising national flags and spread anti-Soviet pamphlets. Under the influence