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![[Northern Cross design for Estonia]](../images/e/ee-ncros.gif)
image by Tomislav Todorovic, 23 January 2022
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One of largest dailies in Estonian " Eesti
Päevaleht" (<www.epl.ee>)
initiated a discussion about the possibility of changing the
historical Estonian national tricolour of blue-black-white to Scandinavian cross with same
colours. The newspaper has opened a voting page and
discussion site on the Internet.
Teet Koitjdrv, 7 December 2001
I join an article and the propositional flag that come from
Pascal Vagnat' website:
"Flag with cross and Estlande - The Republic of Estonia
suffers from a lack of image, being often confused(merged) with
his(her) Baltic neighbours. Next to all the projects thrown
(launched) by the government to increase the fame of the country,
represents that radical of the former (ancient) leader of secret
services, Erik-Niiles Krose, for whom it is necessary to change
the name of the country and to endow it with a new flag, because
according to him, the former (ancient) emblems would play in his
disfavour. He proposes that the country is called " Estlande
", who would evoke prosperous countries as Finland or
Ireland. According to Kaarel Taraïd, director of the
governmental press relations department, " A flag decorated
with a cross instead of three bands(strips) of colour would show
at once that we belong to the community of the countries of the
North, Norway, Sweden, Denmark and Finland. " This
proposition is successful: 20 % of the population of the country
wants to live in a country called " Estlande " endowed
with a flag with Scandinavian cross. Already numerous
supporters(supports) chanted this new name by shaking the flag
with cross during the last contest of basketball
Estonie-Lettonie.
To read: Smirnov, Alexeï, " Lives Estlande and Scandinavian
cross ", Novyé Izvestia's article, appeared in
international Mail (courier), on Thursday , February 28,
2002."
Arnaud Leroy, 2 April 2002
There seems not to be an Estonian Consulate in New York City,
but there has been a town house in Manhattan for at least fifty
years called Estonia House, which has managed the cultural
affairs of the Estonian expatriate community, including during
the time when Estonia was part of the Soviet Union. I questioned
several people about the possible new flag, and they all said
they have no new information, although they read the Estonian
papers online daily. They added that they were strongly against
any change ("What's wrong with our flag?"); moreover,
they thought that a large majority of Estonians were also against
any such change.
Lewis A. Nowitz, 3 April 2002
[This] proposal has had limited support during the 2010's as well; it was not necessarily meant to officially replace the current
national flag, but to become an unofficial alternative [2, 3]. The
shade of blue has been the same as in the current flag.
Tomislav Todorovic, 23 January 2022
![[Northern Cross design for Estonia]](../images/e/ee-ncro1.gif)
image by Tomislav Todorovic, 23 January 2022
Another version has also been promoted in the same period, in which
black and white colors have swapped places, possibly in order to make
all three colors more distinctive.
Tomislav Todorovic, 23 January 2022
![[Northern Cross design for Estonia]](../images/e/ee-ncro2.gif)
image by Tomislav Todorovic, 27 January 2022
Another version which tried to keep the colors in the same order as in
the current national flag displays a blue cross, bordered black, on
white field. Very few photos of this flag are available online,
but the design appears in several online articles which discuss the
possible flag change.
Tomislav Todorovic, 27 January 2022
![[Northern Cross design for Estonia]](../images/e/ee-ncro3.gif)
image by Tomislav Todorovic, 27 January 2022
A proposal different from others displays black Scandinavian cross
over blue-white bicolor field. While no photos of it can currently be
found, it appears in online articles along with other versions as the
illustration of the discussions on the flag change issue.
This design is actually the simplification of some flag proposals from
the early 1920's.
Tomislav Todorovic, 27 January 2022
