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Pan-Slavic colours

Hello there! Do you know what the colour red, blue and white look like? Red is like the colour of strawberries, blue is like the colour of the sky and white is like a paper without any writing on it.

Now, some grown-ups in a group called the Pan-Slavic movement a long, long time ago decided to use these colours as their symbol. They wanted to bring all the Slavic people together, which are people who speak similar languages and come from countries like Russia, Poland and Serbia.

They chose these colours because they are the most common colours in many of the Slavic country's flags.

So, these colours - red, blue and white - became known as the Pan-Slavic colours. When people see them together, they know that it represents the unity and togetherness of the Slavic people.