{"id":7062,"date":"2017-05-02T18:20:10","date_gmt":"2017-05-02T18:20:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/polish\/?p=7062"},"modified":"2017-05-03T12:20:16","modified_gmt":"2017-05-03T12:20:16","slug":"lets-celebrate-flag-day-in-poland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/polish\/lets-celebrate-flag-day-in-poland\/","title":{"rendered":"Let’s celebrate Flag Day in Poland"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today Poles celebrate Flag Day! Flag Day (Dzie\u0144\u00a0Flagi<\/strong>) in Poland has been celebrated annually on May 2 since 2004.\u00a0Flag Day, it is also celebrated as a day of Polish immigration or Poles abroad, so called POLONIA DAY<\/strong>. Although May 2nd is formally not a day off from work, it is often a part of the long holiday or weekend which starts with May 1st and finishes with May 3rd. (popularly called Maj\u00f3wka<\/strong>). A lot of people in Poland take extra days off during this time and plan a mini vacation.
\nThe Flag Day was established by a decree (dekret, zarz\u0105dzenie<\/strong>) on February 20, 2004 when the change in Polish coat of arm, shade of colors of the flags and Polish anthem were introduced. This day is also called a Day of<\/strong> White Eagle (Dzie\u0144 Bia\u0142ego Or\u0142a)<\/strong>. Polish Eagle constitutes a Polish coat or arm.<\/p>\n

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Polish Flag Day commemorates raising of the Polish flag on the Victory Column in the city of Berlin on May 2, 1945, at the end of the Battle of Berlin. The flag was hoisted by Polish Army troops who fought alongside their Soviet allies. It was\u00a0almost six years after the Nazi invasion of Poland.\u00a0It was immediately noticed by Soviets. It was\u00a0 \u201cabuse to the Soviet Union\u201d to fix a flag without permission of\u00a0 \u201cRed Army authorities\u201d and even before Red Army fixed red flag.\u00a0 Polish soldiers were arrested and avoided to be shot only because German capitulation announcement.<\/p>\n

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The national flag of Poland is a horizontal bicolor. The upper stripe is white and the lower stripe is red. These colors has been officially considered the national colors of Poland since 1831. Both of them were present on the coats of arms of Poland and Lithuania, two constituent nations of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth.<\/p>\n

The flag of Poland was officially adopted in 1919. There is a variation of the flag that contains the national coat of arms in the middle of the upper stripe. It is used at sea and abroad. The naval ensign of Poland also has a swallow-tail.<\/p>\n

The national flag of Poland is flown continuously on the presidential palace and the parliament. State and local government organs are legally required to fly the flag on May 1 (May Day), May 2 (Flag Day), May 3 (Constitution Day)<\/strong> and November 11 (Independence Day).<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Today Poles celebrate Flag Day! Flag Day (Dzie\u0144\u00a0Flagi) in Poland has been celebrated annually on May 2 since 2004.\u00a0Flag Day, it is also celebrated as a day of Polish immigration or Poles abroad, so called POLONIA DAY. Although May 2nd is formally not a day off from work, it is often a part of the…<\/p>\n

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