Fun fact: Lichtenstein and Haiti also had the same flag, they only realized it when they both came to the Olympic Games for the first time. Lichtenstein added a crown to the top left and Haiti a coat of arms in the center.
Based countries in comparison of these two stubborn childish nations that wont do anything about the problem just because the other wont do something too
Most Africans colonis where money sinks. The African empirlism was mostly a dick mejaring contest .after the 2 world wars Europe couldn't afford this money sink
Well some morals at least. If it was the Nazis or the ancient Romans or another ancient kingdom if the people rebelled they would have just killed/sold as slaves and replaced the civilian population with their own people. But the french didn't want to be so bad to just genocide the locals even if historically that is the most obvious solution. Like the Romans did with Carthage and Judea.
Indeed. To tell the truth most Africans colonies where money sinks. While it gave some resources wen it was fine putting locals in deplorable conditions it became far too expensive when you couldnt abbuse them like that. French and brits and a few others never felt like sinking much money into them so they washed their hands clean pretty fast once it became apparent just how much of the money sinks those colonies were.
@@Shrek_es_mi_pastor Okay so you know I meant that 50% messed up because of France (on which we agree) and 50% because of Spain. I consider my opinion binding in later aspect, because you clearly have a stake in the debate because of your name
I read about some link with Spain as well, but it was quite some years back. Can't remember where. It was mentioned as speculation of the link with Spanish knights and there were some variations to the assumptions as follows: 1 some lineage related to Spanish nobility of the local boyars, 2 usage of the colors following support provided to Spanish knights in combat; cant remember specifics on this. Anyway, the 1st documentation of the local flags is probably in Wijnbergen armoire catalogue, subsequently used in the Portuguese armory Livro do Armeiro-Mor, if you want to see how the Wallachian flag looked like.
You are all wrong. The red is for brotherhood, the yellow is for justice, and the blue for liberty. I don't know how you could get it this wrong. Especially if you are a Romanian.
Romania and Moldova are essentially the same country we both speak Romanian and our currency is Leu, maybe one day we can unite again in the greater Romania.
@@victorbuturoaga6220 not all of romania is balkan. the south eastern and mostly southern part of romania is balkan techically (geographically i think)
@@Ro_david02 well I know that Geographicaly Romania is not Realy a part of the Balkans But Historicaly and Culturaly I think that we are at least 70% a part of the Balkans
@@whtfl albanians and romanians are brothers ua-cam.com/video/kPnYb9YZecA/v-deo.html ua-cam.com/video/mjL-zLuBiic/v-deo.html ua-cam.com/video/aDPb-vVn07c/v-deo.html we speak the same languange
In conclusion, Romania had it first and we should have copyrighted it. Moldova can keep it though since we are basically the same country, just split in two.
@@sobertowelie3267 It's not true, I live in Moldova and I don't know a word of Russian, maybe we have some modified words, but they are not in the Russian vocabulary either.
@@Dananlol Daca esti atenta, e o diferenta. Are dreptate. Si diferente sunt si cu al Moldovei, in afara de stema. Au un albastru mult mai deschis, acolo chiar e vizibil. Aproape ca cerul. Plus ca au drapelul mai ingust si mai lung. Proportiile astea conteaza, sunt lege. Nu poti sa tai un steag dupa cum te taie capul.
Here is something you forgot to Mention,Mihai "The brave" as he was called actually united romania with wallachia,transilvaynia,and moldavia all at once,he was extremly influential in the region and fought 3 Massive major powers of the time like the ottomans,austrians,and polish and managed to score alot of wins,so yea he is not just a guy who rule 1/3 of the country and loved some colors,he was a genius at warfare and united romania 300 years before it officaly became a proper kingdom
@Dragon Of The West I already imagine how politicians in Romania sat at a table and they were like "hmmm... what flag from mighty subsaharan Africa shoud we copy, guys?" 😂
Clearly, Chad had the flag design first. Romania only got the design after it dropped the logo. They should replace the logo with something else instead of just using Chad flag. Romania dares not to do that if Chad were a strong nation.
@@theairaccumulator7144 That isn’t true. It’s not convoluted exactly because it shares so much with other Eastern nations. People however “over-Romance” the pronunciation, or are too Anglo-centric to pronounce it in a non English way, and they butcher the pronunciation. In the video, he pronounced “Walachia” wrong. If he had pronounced it the way an Eastern European would, let’s say a Polish, he would have gotten the pronunciation near to correct. But because he tried to pronounce it in a more “Romance language” way, or was too English to realise any other pronunciation, he messed up the pronunciation and got it wrong
Chad “ be like you stole my flag “ Romanian “he had this shit forever” Chad “ no man you had a little thing on it in 1960” Romanian “bro you just copied my flag dude” Chad “...”
Being Romanian... I actually want this to be an opportunity to team up with Chad. Why argue over it, when this coincidence can unite us? Let's join forces. I love random friendships between peoples far away, like the Irish have with the Choctaw Nation in the US.
Technically Luxemburg has almost the same flag as the netherlands, except that the Luxemburg one looks like dutch flag but colors became lighter because being left in the sun for years Luxemburg: 🇱🇺 The netherlands: 🇳🇱
@@oli2879 Checked the Urban Dictionary and got: The region between the balls and the arse-hole; can be an erogenous zone for some. So no God there - that's for sure. Homophobic jerry - joke?
6:36 that's not what happened. Romania was non-aligned, but guaranteed by France. When France fell in 1940, the guarantor was gone and according to the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact, USSR issued an ultimatum to give up Moldova to Romania. The Romanians obliged as they saw no other choice (Soviet actually expected they'd have to invade). This kind of pressure was one of the reasons the Romanians joined the Axis powers to try and take back Moldova (as well as take some more). The occupation was kind of "legitimized" after WW2 tho.
Well, i always thought that the colors are a sheer coincidence, and ultimately it still kinda is, but the fact that the french had a more or less direct influence over the 2 flags makes sense. France had a huge cultural influnece over Romania in the 19th century, Bucharest got the nickname little paris and we have our own arc de triomphe
A correction: Bessarabia (today's Moldova) got annexed by Russia in 1812, not 1878. In 1878 Russo-Turkish war happened and the United Principalities got Northern Dobrudja from Turkey in exchange for Southern Bessarabia (Budjak) which got transferred back to Russia (it was formerly obtained by the United Principalities in 1856 following the Crimean War, from Russia).
albanians and romanians are brothers ua-cam.com/video/kPnYb9YZecA/v-deo.html ua-cam.com/video/mjL-zLuBiic/v-deo.html ua-cam.com/video/aDPb-vVn07c/v-deo.html we speak the same languange
Actually the colors from romanian flag are like this: red from the blood that was spill for liberty, yellow from the richness( gold, grains, wood) and blue from the sea/water
Technically the flags have 2 different color, but let's be honest you only really notice that if someone mentions it to you(In this case me), or if you really like flags and colors. Edit: Typo, and grammar
Really great video, altought i'd like to point out that Transylvania was unified in 1918 and communism began in 1947, also, Romania switches sides when King Mihai arrested General Antonescu, we turned against the germans in the middle of the Barbarosa Operation, USSR took Moldova due to us being on the Axis side before, besides that, i love it, keep it up man
Chad used to have a flag with green yellow and red similar to mali but the green was much much lighter (or darker) which looked different enough to distinguish then chad thought it looked too simliar so they made their flag the exact same as Romania
@@nafrost2787 Arab flags like jordan have 0 effort they all use the same colors and patterns. Compare Jordan to Palestine,sudan,kuwait,uae.... all have similar uninspired boring flags. Nothing original.
4:41 lmao that never happened. Decolonisation almost entirely happened because of widescale rebellions in colonies and diplomatic pressure from USSR and USA. They decided that ruling the colonies with the façade of giving them independence was more economically viable so they did just that. Almost all of West Africa is still under French imperialism. The only nation that really broke away from France properly was Algeria whose population was genocided by the French. Now the same French wish for another genocide for the people who ran away from the countries they have kept in extreme poverty to get rich themselves. The French left wishes for the same imperialist system to continiue while the French right are more honest in what they want which is an expansion of French imperialism and a genocide on migrants. I truly wish Zemmour wins so he can break the back of France and cause a civil war.
Obviously like even in history books its said that they rebelled and not out of France or Uk good will atleast in my books because im from Poland they problaby teach the French and British kids that there werent any atrocieties commited by them in thier colonies.
@@АлексейТабаков-ы8в Zemmour who is the main candidate facing Macron right now is actively calling for the extermination of all migrants in France, he has a ton of videos praising French imperialism. The irony is he himself is a jew from Algeria whose family had to migrate to France because of the extreme poverty of Algeria under French enslavement. He has zero self awareness. There is a very large chance he will win the election this year. His proposed deportation and ethnic cleansing are literally impossible to achieve in a liberal democracy so he will most likely thrust France into chaos if he gets elected, which is a good thing in my book. He is basically Trump on neo-nazi steroids and not even a fringe candidate, literally winning in polls.
Algeria wasn't genocided they've had good population growth since. A true genocide would be them never recovering/increasing population integrity. I think the French right wants to recover/return the French demographic profile, which means they just don't want people from West Africa in their country, not that they want to genocide/imperialize. I think it's more likely that Macron or Le Pen will win, tho of course Zemmour agrees decently with Le Pen. Zemmour will have to get better economic and environmental policies to win. The French left wants a more international "mixed" goal ultimately, although there's a lack of cohesion and good amount of disagreement I don't think either the French right or French left want to truly increase imperialism. You said it yourself that you wish for a civil war.
Now I am reminded of the fact that many British colonies had versions of the ‘Red Duster’ and ‘Blue Duster’ flags with coats of arms or other things (like stars) added to them at various points in time. Some still do, like Australia and New Zealand (both ‘Blue Duster’ variants), others like Canada (which used a ‘Red Duster’ variant) have since adopted other flags.
As a romanian he forgot to say that we dont really steal that much i have never been stolen from or anyone around my neigbourhood, school and city have been stolen from and same with bucharest and other cities
Only during the Romanisation of Romania. Not necessarily a bad thing, but deleted works of Romanian history just because France was big and Romania was apparently “too Slavic”. As a Slav myself, although I see why Romania would want to go through the Romanisation, but it wasn’t necessary.
@@cerebrummaximus3762 Well. Romanians wanted to be Latin like their ancestors, The Romans. Even the name of Romania means in Latin, The citizens of Rome " Furthermore, because the language is Latin by origin, the Western countries see Romania as a cousin in the Slavic ocean" The relationship between Romania and France was different from the other countries in the video. Romania sees France as a big sister, not a colonial power and it's logic why they wanted France influence.
There was a salty Frenchman I met in Brussels a couple years ago using this in a hilarious argument about how France has influenced other countries' flags just as much as Britain has.
@@scavulous6336 yes thats what I mean - them fighting the different revolutions in all of their colonies in order to keep them, like in Vietnam. While the video makes it sound like they just decided to let their colonies go immediately after ww2.
0:48 Historians agree that Romanians and Romans had similar language to start with. Why? Well, because by the logic that Romanians were latinised by the Romans when under Roman rule, why weren't they Turkisised by the Turks when under Turkish rule?
@@dyawr albanians and romanians are brothers ua-cam.com/video/kPnYb9YZecA/v-deo.html ua-cam.com/video/mjL-zLuBiic/v-deo.html ua-cam.com/video/aDPb-vVn07c/v-deo.html
Walla(hee)a in English, but its original Romanian pronunciation,, if you want that, is Valahia. Google translate spell Valahia and press the sound button.
Pretty sure the USSR, pressured Romania into giving them moldova just before WW2, but once war was declared in 1941, Romania quickly took back Moldova, until they lost.
man are you fast at drawing.
yo kraut whats good
The GOAT is in the room.
Yoooo top 10 anime crossovers
Hello
Unlike you dude
Fun fact: Lichtenstein and Haiti also had the same flag, they only realized it when they both came to the Olympic Games for the first time. Lichtenstein added a crown to the top left and Haiti a coat of arms in the center.
The Haitian flag looks like a bad photo shop. Like they thought it was a see threugh jpg and were too lazy to edit out the white square
Fun fact: Fun fact is normie
fun fact: fun fact is chad
Based countries in comparison of these two stubborn childish nations that wont do anything about the problem just because the other wont do something too
Fun fact : fun facts are not really fun
One issue:
The French didn't give Chad independence, because of some kinds of morals, but because holding colonies got to expensive after WW2.
Most Africans colonis where money sinks. The African empirlism was mostly a dick mejaring contest .after the 2 world wars Europe couldn't afford this money sink
Especially when it's not east african colonies (full of ressources) but sahara colonies (full of desert)
I meant west
Well some morals at least. If it was the Nazis or the ancient Romans or another ancient kingdom if the people rebelled they would have just killed/sold as slaves and replaced the civilian population with their own people. But the french didn't want to be so bad to just genocide the locals even if historically that is the most obvious solution. Like the Romans did with Carthage and Judea.
Indeed. To tell the truth most Africans colonies where money sinks. While it gave some resources wen it was fine putting locals in deplorable conditions it became far too expensive when you couldnt abbuse them like that. French and brits and a few others never felt like sinking much money into them so they washed their hands clean pretty fast once it became apparent just how much of the money sinks those colonies were.
I like how Chad accused Romania of stealing their flag, even though Romania had the flag for 200 years by that point.
What you expect from a chad? They do what they want.
@@mausenpai215 kind of a virgin country tho.
What a chad
as a romanian, i know chad could say anithing about our flag, but, we, romanians won t care
@@euugh8877 the virgin Chad vs the chad Romania
Quick correction: If Andorra is half Spanish and half French then it isn't half messed-up, but 100% messed-up
No, 50%. The percentages for france and being messed-up are the same
@@Shrek_es_mi_pastor Okay so you know I meant that 50% messed up because of France (on which we agree) and 50% because of Spain. I consider my opinion binding in later aspect, because you clearly have a stake in the debate because of your name
@@freddekl1102 i don't agree on france! atleast my whole country doesn't!
@@freddekl1102 No, it's in spanish, but I ain't Spanish. I just hate France, that's it
@@Shrek_es_mi_pastor why
Moral of the story: It's always the fault of the french.
Moral first stared Great Toyota war bro what’s Romania
Amin! 😠🤭
If it's not the british fault, the next suspect is france
@@dyawr 😆
@@juanfranciscovillarroelthu6876 Understandable.
I love how all of them are based on something with France.
Bucharest was constructed as Mini Paris soooooooo
@@hezuuu8 ye, but the one in france was built by the same romanian sculptor
France is everywhere hon hon hon.
I am sick of it =))
I read about some link with Spain as well, but it was quite some years back. Can't remember where. It was mentioned as speculation of the link with Spanish knights and there were some variations to the assumptions as follows: 1 some lineage related to Spanish nobility of the local boyars, 2 usage of the colors following support provided to Spanish knights in combat; cant remember specifics on this. Anyway, the 1st documentation of the local flags is probably in Wijnbergen armoire catalogue, subsequently used in the Portuguese armory Livro do Armeiro-Mor, if you want to see how the Wallachian flag looked like.
The Romanian flag can also represent blood for red, grains for yellow and the sky for blue
Yup
@Fuel you are taught that blue represents the black sea in school
Thats exactly what it represents
The only thing you learn at school
You are all wrong. The red is for brotherhood, the yellow is for justice, and the blue for liberty.
I don't know how you could get it this wrong. Especially if you are a Romanian.
Romania and Moldova are essentially the same country we both speak Romanian and our currency is Leu, maybe one day we can unite again in the greater Romania.
The culture has been split when 1 of them was a ussr republic
@@rexyjp1237 no. It hasnt
why greater romania why not greater Moldova
@@mihajlomujkovic6816 because greater Moldova will only unite one third of Romanians under the same country
@@9_9876 it was a joke i was joking
I still funny the fact that Chad tried to sue us for our flag yet it's existed long before Chad
@@bdsap5195 yeah.... sure, you sure done your research there.
@@bdsap5195 ...did you not watch the video?
They are chads
@@Octi-ku4yf did you? Are they wrong?
@@TheHyBriD3I6 the Romanian Flag Originates back to 1866
Flag of Chad Originates back to 1959
Chad : Yo can I copy your flag?
France : sure but replace the white color with something else.
Romania : WHAT HAVE YOU DONE
Normie
@@Perririri yes you are im glad you are self aware
Chad move
Simply said: “Romania is the true Chad on the Balkans 😎”
Romania is not a balkan country goddamn it
@@Arvinw1 Besides the region of Transylvania (MUH CeNTrAl EuRoPEaN) it is though
@@Arvinw1 Geographicaly no
Historicaly and cultural yes
@@victorbuturoaga6220 not all of romania is balkan. the south eastern and mostly southern part of romania is balkan techically (geographically i think)
@@Ro_david02 well I know that Geographicaly Romania is not Realy a part of the Balkans
But Historicaly and Culturaly I think that we are at least 70% a part of the Balkans
Love our brother romanians from albania 🇦🇱❤🇷🇴
@@whtfl albanians and romanians are brothers ua-cam.com/video/kPnYb9YZecA/v-deo.html
ua-cam.com/video/mjL-zLuBiic/v-deo.html
ua-cam.com/video/aDPb-vVn07c/v-deo.html we speak the same languange
The Albanian anthem is a Romanian hymn!
In conclusion, Romania had it first and we should have copyrighted it. Moldova can keep it though since we are basically the same country, just split in two.
We are not the same ,but ok.
Moldovans use a tad more Russian in their language, that's all.
and 2 semi autonomous states and even more corrupt politicians than the golf playing giohanis
@@sobertowelie3267 It's not true, I live in Moldova and I don't know a word of Russian, maybe we have some modified words, but they are not in the Russian vocabulary either.
@@FeverDream82 I think he was referring to the accent.
Technically, the blue on Romania’s flag 🇷🇴 is a little bit lighter than Chad’s flag 🇹🇩
As a romanian, nu vad nici o diferență plm
@@Dananlol Daca esti atenta, e o diferenta. Are dreptate. Si diferente sunt si cu al Moldovei, in afara de stema. Au un albastru mult mai deschis, acolo chiar e vizibil. Aproape ca cerul. Plus ca au drapelul mai ingust si mai lung. Proportiile astea conteaza, sunt lege. Nu poti sa tai un steag dupa cum te taie capul.
@@Dananlol 🤣
@@Dananlol 🤣🤣🤣
@@Dananlol atuncia nu vezi culorile bine
Here is something you forgot to Mention,Mihai "The brave" as he was called actually united romania with wallachia,transilvaynia,and moldavia all at once,he was extremly influential in the region and fought 3 Massive major powers of the time like the ottomans,austrians,and polish and managed to score alot of wins,so yea he is not just a guy who rule 1/3 of the country and loved some colors,he was a genius at warfare and united romania 300 years before it officaly became a proper kingdom
And had a wicked hat :-)
@@micdoors1425 The ancient Thracians (and their Dacian branch) wore a similar, smaller cap called a pileus.
I like how Chad even had the balls to ask Romania to change the flag after almost 200 Yers of use like LOL
@Dragon Of The West no. RSR already had that flag in 1947, chad adopted it in 1959.
@Dragon Of The West I already imagine how politicians in Romania sat at a table and they were like "hmmm... what flag from mighty subsaharan Africa shoud we copy, guys?" 😂
@@Zdamaneta I would've copied the Mozambique flag with the AK-47 tbh
Clearly, Chad had the flag design first. Romania only got the design after it dropped the logo. They should replace the logo with something else instead of just using Chad flag. Romania dares not to do that if Chad were a strong nation.
@@Haijwsyz51846You don't now what you are talking about we had this flag before comunism,bet when comunism came we got the logo in the middle!
As a Romanian, I like your attempts at pronouncing Romanian words. Difficult for many
@@theairaccumulator7144 That isn’t true. It’s not convoluted exactly because it shares so much with other Eastern nations.
People however “over-Romance” the pronunciation, or are too Anglo-centric to pronounce it in a non English way, and they butcher the pronunciation.
In the video, he pronounced “Walachia” wrong. If he had pronounced it the way an Eastern European would, let’s say a Polish, he would have gotten the pronunciation near to correct.
But because he tried to pronounce it in a more “Romance language” way, or was too English to realise any other pronunciation, he messed up the pronunciation and got it wrong
@@cerebrummaximus3762 holy shit you rly just wrote a whole paragraph just over soms guy disagreeing
classic internet felllow
Yeah. The way he pronounced Wallachia is beyond cringe
Da
me,as a romanian,is hilarious that chad tired to sue us for the flag,
Not hard to tell the un to get bent
Technically it was up for grabs, and they claimed it.
What a chad
@@co2_os It's a very dirty move given Romania's history. The base flag of the country has always been the plain three colours.
"Half spanish, half french, half messed up" Excellent xD
Fun fact: they are not exactly identical. Chad’s flag has a darker shade of blue than Romania’s.
that is correct
I see it like that too
So they actually lied in their accusation?
YES FINALY A PERSON
Chad's a pretty cool name for a country
One day it will become the most based country in the world.
The only thing messing is giga
They should change it to Alpha-Chad.
The fact that your comment has 69 likes is just so perfect.
Nice video, this was a pretty interesting topic
Chad “ be like you stole my flag “
Romanian “he had this shit forever”
Chad “ no man you had a little thing on it in 1960”
Romanian “bro you just copied my flag dude”
Chad “...”
Love Romania🇷🇴 Greetings from Turkey🇹🇷
By some accounts, the designer of the first tricolor of Romania was Petrache Poenaru, the same guy who invented the fountain pen.
Being Romanian... I actually want this to be an opportunity to team up with Chad. Why argue over it, when this coincidence can unite us? Let's join forces. I love random friendships between peoples far away, like the Irish have with the Choctaw Nation in the US.
Kinda like the Australian-Hungarian empire.
@@1986tessie someone gonna tell him at the risk of being woooooshed.
And what could we gain exactly if we teamed up with chad?
@@eEmm1 You gain chads
@@nsei7828 no thanks.
Like the nice touch of "The Blue Danube Waltz" playing in the background, was that referencing the Danube river?
This was a very well made video, keep it up man!
In school in Romania I was told that the blue stands for the sky, yellow for the sun and red for blood, now I don’t know what to believe
yes is this but is inspiring by French flag model
Technically Luxemburg has almost the same flag as the netherlands, except that the Luxemburg one looks like dutch flag but colors became lighter because being left in the sun for years
Luxemburg: 🇱🇺
The netherlands: 🇳🇱
And as far as I know the French and Russian flags are based on the Dutch flag.
@@KofteG61 basically most tricolor red white and blue flags
@@KofteG61 because the oldest flag using red white and blue is the Dutch flag
interesting
@@startingbark0356 Not just red white and blue either, the entire concept of a tricolor originated with the Dutch flag.
Us romanian came with the idea first so chad stole our flag
Shit happens
You mean us french?
@@Dogebro200 no
@Li F a lit of Romanian flags have the coat of arms
@@Dogebro200 You French having countries copy your flag? You mean you copy the Dutch’s :)
I love your summary of Romanian history. Pretty cool
I’m from Chad 🇹🇩
I'm from Romania 🇷🇴
@@razerx1798 wow now we are brothers 😎
Cool, a fellow African.
Hi from Nigeria.
@@razerx1798 Me too! Also, our friend is Moldovan 🇲🇩
@@razerx1798 no no no you guys are *CHAMANIA*
I prefer the horizontal Romanian flag, it looks a lot better
no i dont want to be pansexual
@Li F dammit. Better luck next time
@Li F Nope.
Ya should just go back to that one
@@cqodda Looked up pansexual flag...
EVEN PANSEXUALS ARE STEALING OUR FLAG
WHO'S NEXT ?
9:18 spoken like a true american, it almost bring a tear to my eye.
Chad is a chad while romania is not a chad as much as chad.
Seriously tho this is some good content I'm subscribing!
WTF is a 'chad'???
@@googlefan8990 a god
@@oli2879 Checked the Urban Dictionary and got:
The region between the balls and the arse-hole; can be an erogenous zone for some.
So no God there - that's for sure. Homophobic jerry - joke?
@@googlefan8990 the fuck are you talking about
No. Romania is a chad BCS they survived the USSR
Great job pal. Keep up with good work!
2:05 picture is perfect.
Love the vid! Could you do one on Monaco and Indonesia having the same flag?
first of all: no they don't, the shade of the blue is slightly different
second of all: thanks for covering this I have been wondering for a long time
Not everyone knows that
there are also many people that can't distinguish those shades so you know
@@greenshinigami5566 colourblind people? or is it just a thing of being more familiar with certain shades
@@kiwuuspurr1927 yes.
@@nicksalvatore5717 understandable
6:36 that's not what happened. Romania was non-aligned, but guaranteed by France. When France fell in 1940, the guarantor was gone and according to the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact, USSR issued an ultimatum to give up Moldova to Romania. The Romanians obliged as they saw no other choice (Soviet actually expected they'd have to invade).
This kind of pressure was one of the reasons the Romanians joined the Axis powers to try and take back Moldova (as well as take some more).
The occupation was kind of "legitimized" after WW2 tho.
Are you Romanian? If u are not you are truly legend.
No
Finally some good polandball
Or upside down Indonesia Ball or Monaco Ball!
Well, i always thought that the colors are a sheer coincidence, and ultimately it still kinda is, but the fact that the french had a more or less direct influence over the 2 flags makes sense. France had a huge cultural influnece over Romania in the 19th century, Bucharest got the nickname little paris and we have our own arc de triomphe
Ive always wondered why they had the same flag
Chad is a chad, he can have any flag he want 😎
@@nxdeflowers No
@@nxdeflowers No
@@nxdeflowers No
@@nxdeflowers No
You’d think a country named CHAD would well, be a Chad…
My romanian ass came here from not guessing the flag in a tiktok
A correction: Bessarabia (today's Moldova) got annexed by Russia in 1812, not 1878. In 1878 Russo-Turkish war happened and the United Principalities got Northern Dobrudja from Turkey in exchange for Southern Bessarabia (Budjak) which got transferred back to Russia (it was formerly obtained by the United Principalities in 1856 following the Crimean War, from Russia).
4:42
I just got sad bc Chad was crying
6:06 Fun fact: In Spanish "Moldova" is called "Moldavia"
Virgin Romania: *Makes a flag
Chad: *copies it*
1:15 Vallachian flag was of Damascus color , at it shades into Yellow after a while to thats why.
Chad's And Romania's Flaf Have Differences , Chad's Flag has darker colours
Thank you for explaining the case of Romania and Chad ☺️, mulțumesc!
😭 bless you mate , finally a UA-camr that got the Romania n history correctly
albanians and romanians are brothers ua-cam.com/video/kPnYb9YZecA/v-deo.html
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ua-cam.com/video/aDPb-vVn07c/v-deo.html we speak the same languange
But he didn't. Emperor Trajan only conquered the Walachia region.
Actually the colors from romanian flag are like this: red from the blood that was spill for liberty, yellow from the richness( gold, grains, wood) and blue from the sea/water
I'm Romanian. I'm not even mad that we share basically the same flag tbh. I like it. I think it's fun.
Plot twist; the French flag is based off the Dutch flag
*G E K O L O N I S E E R D*
As a Romanian, i can agree that Dacia is the best and ever will be
I like any video that concludes with "blame the French." I, too, apply this general philosophy to my daily life.
Blaming the americans is too main stream, we're hipsters, we blame the french. And the OGs blame the greeks. XD
Technically the flags have 2 different color, but let's be honest you only really notice that if someone mentions it to you(In this case me), or if you really like flags and colors.
Edit: Typo, and grammar
Have,not has,'cause it's a plural subject,has is used for singular subjects.
As long it's like Monaco-Indonesia-Poland-Singapore-Greenland or Luxembourg-Netherland. Just chill with it.
I like how the country of Chad is even shaped like the head of the Chad meme.
That's where the head was originally designed from...?
great video
Really great video, altought i'd like to point out that Transylvania was unified in 1918 and communism began in 1947, also, Romania switches sides when King Mihai arrested General Antonescu, we turned against the germans in the middle of the Barbarosa Operation, USSR took Moldova due to us being on the Axis side before, besides that, i love it, keep it up man
Nice explanation.
Romania has quite a complicated history.
Chad used to have a flag with green yellow and red similar to mali but the green was much much lighter (or darker) which looked different enough to distinguish then chad thought it looked too simliar so they made their flag the exact same as Romania
All Romanians are Chads, but not all Chads are Romanians.
Amazing vid bro. Your channel is just amazing
I just wish countries put more effort into their flags than just 3 solid color bars.
Some do, like Jordan and the Central African Republic.
Edit: also Kuwait, and the UAE.
Changing the flag is like spitting on those who fought and died for it
Saudi Arabia 🇸🇦 🇸🇦 🇸🇦
@@nafrost2787 Arab flags like jordan have 0 effort they all use the same colors and patterns. Compare Jordan to Palestine,sudan,kuwait,uae.... all have similar uninspired boring flags. Nothing original.
4:41 lmao that never happened. Decolonisation almost entirely happened because of widescale rebellions in colonies and diplomatic pressure from USSR and USA. They decided that ruling the colonies with the façade of giving them independence was more economically viable so they did just that. Almost all of West Africa is still under French imperialism. The only nation that really broke away from France properly was Algeria whose population was genocided by the French. Now the same French wish for another genocide for the people who ran away from the countries they have kept in extreme poverty to get rich themselves. The French left wishes for the same imperialist system to continiue while the French right are more honest in what they want which is an expansion of French imperialism and a genocide on migrants. I truly wish Zemmour wins so he can break the back of France and cause a civil war.
They really want another genocide (citation needed please)? And why the left wants that? Explain please.
Accurate.
Obviously like even in history books its said that they rebelled and not out of France or Uk good will atleast in my books because im from Poland they problaby teach the French and British kids that there werent any atrocieties commited by them in thier colonies.
@@АлексейТабаков-ы8в Zemmour who is the main candidate facing Macron right now is actively calling for the extermination of all migrants in France, he has a ton of videos praising French imperialism. The irony is he himself is a jew from Algeria whose family had to migrate to France because of the extreme poverty of Algeria under French enslavement. He has zero self awareness. There is a very large chance he will win the election this year. His proposed deportation and ethnic cleansing are literally impossible to achieve in a liberal democracy so he will most likely thrust France into chaos if he gets elected, which is a good thing in my book. He is basically Trump on neo-nazi steroids and not even a fringe candidate, literally winning in polls.
Algeria wasn't genocided they've had good population growth since. A true genocide would be them never recovering/increasing population integrity. I think the French right wants to recover/return the French demographic profile, which means they just don't want people from West Africa in their country, not that they want to genocide/imperialize.
I think it's more likely that Macron or Le Pen will win, tho of course Zemmour agrees decently with Le Pen. Zemmour will have to get better economic and environmental policies to win.
The French left wants a more international "mixed" goal ultimately, although there's a lack of cohesion and good amount of disagreement I don't think either the French right or French left want to truly increase imperialism. You said it yourself that you wish for a civil war.
Now I am reminded of the fact that many British colonies had versions of the ‘Red Duster’ and ‘Blue Duster’ flags with coats of arms or other things (like stars) added to them at various points in time. Some still do, like Australia and New Zealand (both ‘Blue Duster’ variants), others like Canada (which used a ‘Red Duster’ variant) have since adopted other flags.
Man the australia flag sucks ass, it's just scream "I am a colony!!!!" with the british flag on it an all, ridiculous.
Brief history of modern Europe: revolution,nepoleon,war war war
🇵🇭: wait did somebody also copied our flag?
The other flag: 🇸🇽
fun fact. Chad is chad and Romania isn't chad
Red blue and yellow what!? Those are my favorite colors too!
Kuz chad is secretly a Romanian Colony Duh.
Imagine you was forced to pick a flag and that's what country you are sent to.
Chad should change their flag honestly
Romania should
@@βασιλεύς-ζ4λ no Romania had the flag long before Chad
@@βασιλεύς-ζ4λ Romania had flag way before though
As a romanian he forgot to say that we dont really steal that much i have never been stolen from or anyone around my neigbourhood, school and city have been stolen from and same with bucharest and other cities
that s because we know who is Romanian and who isn't. We don't still from our own people ;)
They doesnt have the same one BLUE is darker and the other is light
"Half Spanish, half French, half messed up" killed me
France influence on Romania is much more. Even historical buildings and vocabulary was inspired by France.
Only during the Romanisation of Romania. Not necessarily a bad thing, but deleted works of Romanian history just because France was big and Romania was apparently “too Slavic”.
As a Slav myself, although I see why Romania would want to go through the Romanisation, but it wasn’t necessary.
@@cerebrummaximus3762 Well. Romanians wanted to be Latin like their ancestors, The Romans. Even the name of Romania means in Latin, The citizens of Rome "
Furthermore, because the language is Latin by origin, the Western countries see Romania as a cousin in the Slavic ocean"
The relationship between Romania and France was different from the other countries in the video. Romania sees France as a big sister, not a colonial power and it's logic why they wanted France influence.
As an indonesian, we also had our problem with poland, monaco and malta for flag copyright reason
There was a salty Frenchman I met in Brussels a couple years ago using this in a hilarious argument about how France has influenced other countries' flags just as much as Britain has.
I like how you say "Flaeg" instead of "flag"
4:40 You say that like the French didn't fight tooth and nail to keep every single colonial holding...
For their gain, not to protect the colonies themselves
@@scavulous6336 yes thats what I mean - them fighting the different revolutions in all of their colonies in order to keep them, like in Vietnam. While the video makes it sound like they just decided to let their colonies go immediately after ww2.
@@master_ace France only really fought for Vietnam and Algeria (the latter was not a colony but a whole part of the republic)
Subtitles are wild in this one
Unpopular opinion: Romania, Chad, Moldova, and Andorra should unite
Chad idea
Awesome video
9:09 And also why your country partly speaks French.
0:48 Historians agree that Romanians and Romans had similar language to start with. Why? Well, because by the logic that Romanians were latinised by the Romans when under Roman rule, why weren't they Turkisised by the Turks when under Turkish rule?
5:59 Moldova looks like an eagle
Buna seara!
@@xxdarkxx2105 Buna ziua!
@@xxdarkxx2105 Buna dimineata!
Adevărat
It turns out there's only so many ways to put the same five colours in a tricolour
It's always the French' fault!! 😡😂
True
@@drinmaliqi9531 🤭
@@dyawr what?
@@dyawr albanians and romanians are brothers ua-cam.com/video/kPnYb9YZecA/v-deo.html
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@@drinmaliqi9531 I was giggling at the trope about the French. It was funny. 🤷♀️
A way to tell them apart is that Romania’s flag is brighter
Wallachia is pronounced as Walla(hee)a.
interesting! good to know
In romanian it's vlahia
Walla(hee)a in English, but its original Romanian pronunciation,, if you want that, is Valahia. Google translate spell Valahia and press the sound button.
@@razerx1798 actually in Romanian is "țara românească" more commonly😅
Pretty sure the USSR, pressured Romania into giving them moldova just before WW2, but once war was declared in 1941, Romania quickly took back Moldova, until they lost.
Chad never got independence, France just replace themselves with a ruling class in Chad
Your backhround music is The Blue Danube?
I think it'd be cool if Romania put the Dacic wolf on their flag. Especially when you learn the history behind it.