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Austria be like "SERIOUSLY LATVIA?! SERIOUSLY?!"

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You know what the red stands for...just skip to 5:22 to hear my original accent growing up. OH #LATVIA! It wasn't enough to just LOOK like the Austrian flag....Oh and Follow Ken on instagrams at @ken.odonnell. He made a cool new post using a drone.

GeographyNow

These "blood of those who fight for the freedom" animation have gone so far that I had to return to the Afghanistan episode just to hear Barbs saying it normaly .

skafanderus

I'm actually happy my country is in the later end of the alphabetization, because Geography now just keeps getting better with every country that he covers

chemboy

We actually have a joke in Austria, which is about the Latvian flag: Everytime you see a Austrian flag, you say that it's the Latvian flag, and when you see a Latvian flag, you say that it's the Austrian flag

Kameliius

I actually expected the flag portion to be 2 solid minutes of "blood of those who fight for the freedom" since it is all the flag is. Also note how the origin story of the Latvian flag is just so much more dramatic and melancholic than the Austrian one.
Austria: Some noble dude went full Rambo during the crusades and showed off his dirty shirt.
Latvia: While fighting off crusaders a great hero was mortally wounded. He bled out on a white sheet which was drenched in his blood but for the narrow stripe in the middle. His people carried that sheet into next battle and won.
To add to this: In Latvia it is required by law to fly the flag on every building for 9 specific days in a year. On five of those the flag is flown with an additional black ribbon as those days are days of mourning.

Oh and since Barby's joking commentary about flag plagiarism might be misleading:
The first reliable mentioning of the Austrian flag dates back to 1230 and supposedly recounts events from the very end of 12th century. The first mentioning of the Latvian flag dates back to 1270s and supposedly recounts events from the very beginning of the 13th century. So the flags are both basically equally old and their points of origin are separated by a few thousand kilometers.

RoberttheWise

LITHUANIA SOON!!! I HAVE BEEN WAIT 3 GODAMN YEARS FOR THIS!!! YEESSS SO CLOSE!

TheBalticKing

Many Finns buy their alcohol from Estonians who buy their alcohol from Latvians who buy their alcohol from Lithuanians who buy their alcohol from Poland and the import of alcohol from Poland comes mainly from Russia
In each country it is cheaper than the previous

So why the Finnish dose not go to buy alcohol directly from their neighbors

מ.מ-הד

2:18 BLOOD OF THOSE WHO FIGHT FOR THE FREEDOM!!

norhayatimamat

Fun fact, in Latvia it was 12:30 PM when you uploaded this.

SasukeUchihaDX

I just wanna say that, although I love all of your episodes, your Latvia episode was amazing, you have raised the bar on that last video. Perhaps the best made video as of yet.

scubardiveshop

Hi my Latvian flag brothers, greetings from Austria.

OnkelJajusBahn

fun fact, the Latvian flag as used today was adopted in 1923, but variations of it have been used since the 13th century, which is centuries before the Austrians ever had a red-white-red flag, so i think what we should really be asking is : "Did Austria plagiarise the Latvian flag?"

mmvatrix