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![[League of Social-Democrats]](../images/c/cs}vojrm.gif)
by Zeljko
Heimer
Yesterday night BBC World News illustrated its headline on the
anti-Milosevic demonstrations in Yugoslavia with an image of
demonstrators waving large vertically-divided
(dark)blue-yellow-(dark)green flags; there were at least about five
of them, apparently identical, so they did not seem to be
home-made.
I wonder whether the shot actually showed a demonstration in
Vojvodina. The flags were identical to that shown in above, but with
both the blue and the green a bit darker. The ratio appeared to be
2:3
Santiago Dotor, 22 September 1999
Actually, the League of Social-Democrats is called Authonomashy. They want more autonomy and to be a federated republic in Serbia/Yugosalvia, but they are in vast majority Serbs.
AlekandarKis, 18 April 2002
The vertical blue-yellow-green flag dates from the year 1848, more
exactly from 11 May 1848 when this flag was adopted as the flag of
the revolutionaries from Sajkaska [region of Vojvodina around
Novi Sad], i.e. by Sajkaska
Batallion (with only difference in last colour which was brownish).
The League of Social-Democrats of Vojvodina after its establishment
on 14 July 1990, adopted this flag (somewhat modified, namely in
place of brown there is green), as its party flag, with the proposal
that this shall be the future flag of the Republic of Vojvodina.
At that time this flag becomes one of the symbols of Vojvodina
resistance movement against Milosevic's regime in Belgrade, and
appears in several countries of European Union and in USA, as the
official flag of the Republic of Vojvodina.
At that time it was also accepted also by the citizens of Vojvodina
as a recognizable symbol of our party.
Communication by Zoran Petakov, history student, toZeljko Heimer, 25 March 1999
The claims that the blue-yellow-green flag originates from 1848 is dubious. At that time, the Hungarians used their national flag that has just been designed, just as well as the Serbs used their tricolour, so there would hardly have been space for a blue-yellow-green flag. The Serbs proclaimed Srpska Vojvodina (Serbian Vojvodina) on a session in Sremski Karlovci, 1-3 May 1848. The Serb ticolour was proclaimed the flag of that state/crownland. Srpska Vojvodina was disbanded on 1863, and the old counties were reintroduced. All other flags would have been of secondary importance at that time.
The statement that blue, yellow and green colors represent sky and corn and wheat crops, respectively, is just a popular belief which has never been officially confirmed. Another such belief is that these colors represent sky, sun and fertile land in Vojvodina, respectively. Apart from all this, these colors happen to be main colors of the coat of arms of the Backa region, which occupies the dexter chief portion of the coat of arms of Vojvodina: blue field, green base and gold nimbus of St Paul and hilt of his sword. Even the brown color, which is said to have occupied the place of green on some 1848 flags, appears there as the color of St Paul's toga (which should have been red, but it seems that the designers of the coat of arms made it after some old image on which red has changed into brown due to bad storage conditions). There has been no proof yet that this might be more than a coincidence, but still this makes the color combination more convenient for a would-be flag of Backa than for that of the Vojvodina as a whole, because the coats of arms of the other two regions have different main colors (Banat - yellow and red, Srem - green, white and blue).
Tomislav Todorovic, 17 February 2004
![[Horizontal variant]](../images/c/cs}lsv.gif)
by Ivan Sarajcic
It has been reported that the flag of the League of Social-Democrats of Vojvodina and "Republic-to-be of Vojvodina" is a vertically divided blue-yellow-green flag. I have seen this flag on demonstrations, car-stickers (together with letter "V" as an abbreviation of so-called "Republic of Vojvodina"), but few weeks ago on united opposition, anti-Milosevic demonstrations in Belgrade (LSV took part there), an horizontal blue-yellow-green tricolour was seen, with ratio about 1:2.
Ivan Sarajcic , 7 May 2000
The League of Social-Democrats of Vojvodina (LSV) has never used the horizontal blue-yellow-green tricolor as a flag of its own. It was in fact the flag of the Vojvodina Coalition, which was founded in 1996 by the LSV, the Reformative Democratic Party of Vojvodina (Reformska demokratska stranka Vojvodine) and the People's Peasants' Party (Narodna seljacka stranka). The flag dates from the same time and was used by the coalition as a whole. In 1998, the LSV and the Reformative Democratic Party of Vojvodina have left the coalition after a series of conflicts with the People's Peasants' Party and stopped using the horizontal tricolor; since then, it was used only by the remaining members of the coalition - the People's Peasants' Party and a Movement for Vojvodina (Pokret za Vojvodinu), whose registration as a coalition member had actually initiated the said conflict. The flag of the Vojvodina Coalition (which exists as a unified party since then) still has the same basic design. The vertical blue-yellow-green tricolor was also introduced in 1996 by the same original coalition, but was used as a would-be flag of the Autonomous Province of Vojvodina. After the 1998 split, both sides continued to use this flag with the same purpose until 2000, when it was last used by theVojvodina Coalition in the election campaigns. Since then, the vertical tricolor was, and still is, used by the LSV only. However, in the 2003 election campaign a new flag of the LSV has appeared along with the tricolor: it has a white field, ratio of about 1:2, in the hoist is the new party logo and in the fly is the party name, spelled in the six official languages of the province (Serb, Hungarian, Slovak, Romanian, Ruthenian and Croat) on six lines (the actual order might vary a bit from the above) in black letters and separated with black horizontal lines; the logo is a large red square with white letters LSV in bottom left part and three bars, blue, yellow and green respectively and outlined white, in the bottom right part. There is an obvious intention to make difference between the party flag and the proposed provincial flag (the blue, yellow and green colors were promoted by the LSV since 1990, when the party was founded).
Tomislav Todorovic, 12 February 2004
![[Vojvodina Coalition]](../images/c/cs}kv.gif)
by Ivan Sache
During demonstrations in 1999, the Vojvodina Coalition (farmers' movement led by Dragan Veselinov) used an horizontally divided blue-yellow-green flag with the party name in white in upper hoist.
Source: M. Corbic, Franciae Vexilla [frv] #19/65, September 2000
Ivan Sache, 25 October 2000
![[Alliance of Hungarians]](../images/c/cs}vmsz.gif)
by Istvan
Molnar
This party is the largest Hungarian party in Serbia and Montenegro. The current mayor of Subotica is member of the party.
Istvan Molnar, 10 December 2000