Is there, however, a story? No, not really. This is definitely mash up of existing flags and not something meant to go with a specific timeline. Still I remember in the long, long ago reading an odd timeline where the Bolsheviks lose the Russian Civil War and Russia collapses into smaller states. Slowly but surely Japan expands across the former territory of Russia with their hordes of Chinese conscripts before invading Europe. Can't remember the name of the story, but I could sort of see this flag being used by a Hungarian puppet state of Japan.
Which timeline do you think this flag belongs to?
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i could see this flag used by japanese-inspired hungarian nationalist revolutionaries; a faction that believes that hungary should move in a more east-asian direction. this isn't so far fetched, because the hungarian tribes originate from around mongolia.
ReplyDeletethe metaphor of the hungarian coat of rising in the image of the japanese sun is really strong (especially if it was flipped, so that the sun motive was actually rising upwards instead of peeking sideways). this also works because hungary is seperated eastward of central europe, much like the way japan is, in relation from asia.
9/10; would shed my blood for this flag