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  2. Flag of the Soviet Union - Wikipedia

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    The flag of the Soviet Union consisted of a plain red flag with a gold hammer crossed with a gold sickle placed beneath a gold-bordered red star. This symbol is in the upper left canton of the red flag. The colour red honours the red flag of the Paris Commune of 1871; the red star and the hammer and sickle are symbols of communism and socialism.

  3. Flags of the Soviet Republics - Wikipedia

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    The flag of the Soviet Union served as a starting point for each Soviet Republic's own flag.. The flags of the Soviet Socialist Republics were all defaced versions of the flag of the Soviet Union, which featured a golden hammer and sickle and a gold-bordered red star (the only exception being the Georgian SSR, which used a red hammer and sickle and a fully red star) on a red field.

  4. Cold War - Wikipedia

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    The Cold War was a period of global geopolitical rivalry between the United States (US) and the Soviet Union (USSR) and their respective allies, the capitalist Western Bloc and communist Eastern Bloc, which lasted from 1947 until the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991. The term cold war is used because there was no direct fighting between ...

  5. Soviet Union - Wikipedia

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    The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [r] (USSR), [s] commonly known as the Soviet Union, [t] was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991. . During its existence, it was the largest country by area, extending across eleven time zones and sharing borders with twelve countries, and the third-most populous co

  6. Communist symbolism - Wikipedia

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    A tradition of including communist symbolism in socialist-style emblems and flags began with the flag of the Soviet Union and has since been taken up by a long line of socialist states. In Indonesia, Latvia, Lithuania and Ukraine, communist symbols are banned and displays in public for non-educational use are considered a criminal offense. [1]

  7. Emblems of the Soviet Republics - Wikipedia

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    USSR republics coat of arms display on USSR State Television.. The emblems of the constituent republics of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics all featured predominantly the hammer and sickle and the red star that symbolized communism, as well as a rising sun (although in the case of the Latvian SSR, since the Baltic Sea is west of Latvia, it could be interpreted as a setting sun ...

  8. Bans on communist symbols - Wikipedia

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    Communist symbols have been banned, in part or in whole, by a number of the world's countries. [1] As part of a broader process of decommunization, these bans have mostly been proposed or implemented in countries that belonged to the Eastern Bloc during the Cold War, including some post-Soviet states.

  9. File:Flag of the Soviet Union (1936 – 1955).svg - Wikipedia

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    (b) between January 1, 1950 and January 1, 1954, did not work during the Great Patriotic War and did not participate in it. This work was originally published anonymously or under a pseudonym: (a) before January 1, 1943 and the name of the author did not become known during 50 years after publication, counted from January 1 of the year ...