“The colors,” Thomson said at the time, “are those used in the flag of the United States of America. Charles Thomson, Secretary of the Continental Congress, explained the significance to Congress when he presented the seal. Heraldic devices such as seals have specific meanings for each element and color, and the U.S. Red, white and blue were chosen, and the Great Seal was officially adopted on June 20, 1782. The committee was instructed to draw up a seal that reflected the Founding Fathers’ beliefs and values, as well as the sovereignty of the new nation. On July 4, 1776, the Continental Congress passed a resolution authorizing a committee to develop a seal for the country. The colors and their significance still trace back to the birth of the country, and had very specific meanings in the creation of the Great Seal a year earlier. The three colors did not have any official meaning when the flag was adopted in 1777. Yet the resolution never said a word about the significance behind the choice of red, white and blue. On Jin Philadelphia, the Marine Committee of the Second Continental Congress adopted a resolution that read the following: “Resolved, that the flag of the United States be thirteen stripes, alternate red and white that the union be thirteen stars, white in a blue field representing a new constellation.”Īnd with these words, the Stars and Stripes were born. But many never even stop to ask the question, “Why does America salute the red, white and blue?” Poland is supplying weapons to Kyiv and giving refuge to many Ukrainians, and there are very few who actually support Moscow.Follow Fourth of July, we flaunt Uncle Sam hats, wave our flag, and watch fireworks shoot sparks into the night sky. Poland threw off Moscow-backed communism in 1989 and today is a strong ally of Ukraine. But many Poles also remember how they carried out rapes and other crimes, and they resent the decades of Soviet control that came next for their nation. The Red Army soldiers died in the Allied fight to defeat Nazi Germany during World War II. She seized a bouquet of white carnations left by a woman and threw it to the ground, triggering an angry exchange with the other woman. “They are traitors to Poland,” shouted one activist, Katarzyna Augustynek. That triggered the anger of the protesters who denounced them as “provocateurs” serving the Kremlin’s interests. Some Poles also showed up through the morning and did make their way across the symbolic cemetery or through the bushes to reach the Red Army memorial to leave flowers. The protesters surrounded Andreev and his entourage and yelled “Ruscists,” an insult that combines the words “Russians” and “fascists.”Īndreev was doused with a red liquid at the same place on Victory Day last year. The installation also included large mock-ups of bombed buildings and the names of Ukrainian cities where Russia has carried out atrocities against Ukrainians: Bucha, Irpin, Mariupol, Bakhmut. The installation in Warsaw included hundreds of fluttering blue and yellow Ukrainian flags and crosses serving as symbolic grave markers for Ukrainians killed by Russians during the full-scale war launched by Moscow last year. The ministry said in a statement that the incident demonstrates “the duplicity of Warsaw’s policy in assessing the events of World War II and trying to forget about the role of our nation in saving European countries enslaved by Nazi Germany.” It added that the incident “will not remain without a proper reaction.”
The Russian Foreign Ministry strongly criticized Poland over the incident, saying the Warsaw government was informed in advance of the ambassador’s plan to visit the Red Army cemetery and memorial site, and did not act to ensure that he could pay his respects at the memorial. WARSAW, Poland (AP) - Protesters and a large installation representing Russian atrocities in Ukraine blocked the path of Russia’s ambassador to Poland as he sought Tuesday to place a wreath at a Warsaw memorial to Soviet soldiers on Russia’s Victory Day holiday.
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