It is great heraldry!

wow, cool! I'd love to see that!!!

Where can we see the meme, do you have it in social media?

What?! Eilinį kartą įsitikinu, kad nieko neišmanau apie istoriją. Jadvygą įsivaizdau lietuviška Jadvyga, o ne vengriška Hedviga 🫣

@@agneki574 Nežinot, kad Jadvyga buvo Vengrė dar nieko tokio, bet kodėl Lenkijos karalių (taip, Jadvygos oficialus titulas buvo karalius) įsivaizdavot kaip Lietuvę?

Lenkijos karalius buvo lietuvaitė, o pirmoji Lenkijos prezidentė buvo lietuvis. Fight me. @@oddoni

Personally as an American, I believe Vytis in its shield should superimposed on the tri-color. Thus adding a combination and continuation of Lithuania's long and beautiful history.

This has much deeper significanse than just choosing a color of the flag. By creating a new one we said that we leave our history as it was. We have no future claim on the historical lands. We have a historical flag to remember and celebrate. Tricolor based on nationality aims for the future.

What were the other suggestions for the national anthem?

Vytis is too complicated to draw it by hand. The Tricolour symbolises the Republic and the modern Lithuanian nation. People died for it in the Independence Wars, the anti-Soviet Resistance and 1991 thus it would be inapporopriate to just abandon it. I think that having the Tricolour and Vytis at the same time is the best option.

Anthem is lit 🔥

It was not stolen, it arose within the time when Belarus was part of the Grand Duchy. The difference is in the direction which the horses tail points, up/down differently in Belarus vs. in Lithuania.

@@Paulius-lb4ng Tai tada Lietuva gali naudot Tarybų Sąjungos kūjį su pjautuvu? Arba Rusijos erelį?

Feminine? Vytis is a masculine noun, it's inflected as other masculine nouns that end in -is (kirtis, Rytis, papartis, kàrtis, jautis, plautis and so on).

@@blueeyedbaer Vytis can mean many things. Vytis - armed rider ir man's name is masculine. But in herb for the longest it was Vytis as in Chase, then it is feminine. In First Lithuanian Republic it was the latter, and most close to what Pohonia mean in slav languages. But you right in a way that apparently circa 2000s the official recommendations for dictionary indeed turned the tide to masculine version of Vytis accentuating only the rider and not the action coded into herb. So my bad :) my school days long in the past

​@@reaplikacija Lithuanian Vytis is very clearly defined and identified as the Lithuanian coat of arms.

@@CompassionAndSincerity išsiplauk galvą su savo propagandos paranoja. "Po 1569 m. Liublino unijos, kai susikūrė bendra Lenkijos ir Lietuvos valstybė, dar vadinta Abiejų Tautų Respublika, oficialiai buvo patvirtintas jungtinis naujos valstybės herbas: keturių laukų skyde buvo įstrižai pakartoti abiejų šalių simboliai - Erelis ir Vytis. XVI a. viduryje lenkų heraldika Lietuvos herbui suteikė „Pogoń, Pogonia, Pogończyk“ vardą. Ieškodamas šiam terminui lietuviško atitikmens, Konstantinas Sirvydas XVII a. nurodė dvi jo reikšmes: „waykitoias“ (jei kalbama apie asmenį) ir „waykimas“ (jei kalbama apie veiksmą)." "Manoma, kad žodį „vytis“ XIX a. viduryje sukūrė Simonas Daukantas, tačiau šiuo žodžiu jis apibūdino ne herbą, o jame vaizduojamą raitelį. Vytimi Lietuvos herbą bene pirmasis pavadino Mikalojus Akelaitis 1884 m. laikraštyje „Aušra“. Iš pradžių herbas vadintas Vytimi, o nuo XX a. 4-ojo dešimtmečio - Vyčiu. " taip kad pirma Vytis/Pohonia, o tik po to Vytis/raitelis Šaltinis www.lrs.lt/sip/portal.show?p_r=38110&p_k=1

still better than russia

The Lithuanians technically stole much from them as well. The Lithuanian language didn't have a written form until around the 16th century (I think), so they adopted Ruthenian (the ancestor to modern Belarusian and Ukrainian) as the official language, with records being written in it and much of the nobility speaking it as well.

​@@POCKET-SAND "stole much" please elaborate what Lithuanians stole from you ? 😀 Simple question - And why If as some Belarussians claim that the Ruthenian language is theirs "Old Belarussian" language, so why don't they use the old Ruthenian coat of arms - a golden lion? 🤡 Problem is that you are attempting to apply modern nation-states (which is construct of 19th century) concepts of rule (also in your other comments) to medieval administrative processes. 😀 First of all Lithuanian language is older than russian. The Ruthenian they used was mixed with Lithuanian words. If a Ruthenian language was adapted and used by Lithuanian rulers administration, it could be considered at some level as part of Lithuanian culture at that time. It's important to note that during that historical period, there was no such state known as Belarussia. Belarussia at best can be a derivative of Lithuania and Galicia-Volhynia, and by no means the other way around. "stole" "begged" - Such claims are chauvinistic slander invented by ruskies aimed at undermining Lithuania's history and hate speech against Lithuanians. Lithuanians have enriched their neighbors with land, rulers and history. If you doubt this, consider the maps from various centuries showing Lithuania shrinking. Yet hydronyms in Belarussia are from Lithuanian words not Ruthenian (for example in Naugardas, Ašmena and others in the Nemunas basin). Lithuanian rule was indeed a blessing and freedom, Lithuanians embraced local customs and beliefs, representing a remarkably progressive approach to governance for that era. People from neighboring countries fled to Lithuania in search of safety. Something similar happening now. Yet as we can see that ruski mir is incapable to learn Lithuanian, even after 10 or 30 years living in Vilnius. The narrative you promote is created by ruski mir and adapted by lukashenko to brainwash youth. The narrative I am based is global history. Do you feel here the difference? Vytis is a Lithuanian symbol with pagan Baltic roots. As the territory of present-day Belarussians was part of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, we might consider that there is no anything wrong with Belarussians with Lithuanian ancestry and Baltic roots to use Vytis, as they were once part of Lithuania. Yet the problem lies with the ruski mir narrative which denies that there are Belarussian with Baltic roots, denies their Lithuanian and forgets Galicia-Volhynia ancestry, and belittling Lithuanian history itself. You can steal Lithuanian pagan names, symbols and history and try to implement them to ruski ortodox narrative, but you won't be able to understand Lithuanian history and culture without Lithuanian language or by removing ethnic Lithuanians.

@@POCKET-SAND So we stole what? plus first PRINTED book is from 16th century

@@CompassionAndSincerity What utter nonsense did you just type? Did you even bother to read my comment? And no, last time I checked the native speakers of Ruthenian were Ruthenians, not Lithuanians.

@@Lithowave Did you bother to read? The Lithuanians adopted the Ruthenian language. Additionally, the nobility that moved into Ruthenian areas not only adopted the language, but also Orthodox Christianity and gradually assimilated into the Slavic culture of those regions. The Lithuanians were outnumbered by the Slavs in their own Duchy by 5 to 1. With such numbers, it shouldn't be surprising so many Lithuanians adopted aspects of Rus' and Polish culture.

Ko-ko-ko-ko...

@@Middlefinger_Michael wut?

shemale girl f your life in arse?