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  2. List of Russian flags - Wikipedia

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    The first banner of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation was introduced on 8 December 2000, later confirmed by Federation Council on 20 December and signed by Vladimir Putin on 29 December. It was a plain red field, it symbolized the traditional red color of the Armed Forces of the Soviet Union. 2003–

  3. Red in culture - Wikipedia

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    Red berries like the Viburnum opulus are an important component of Russian folk culture which occur in many Russian folk songs, while Kalinka is the most famous of them. [11] Also, Easter eggs in Russia are often colored in red and the color plays a big role in the Russian Orthodox Church, like for example on the Russian icons .

  4. Red Ruthenia - Wikipedia

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    Red Ruthenia, also called Red Rus ' or Red Russia, [a] [b] is a term used since the Middle Ages for the south-western principalities of Kievan Rus', namely the Principality of Peremyshl and the Principality of Belz. It is closely related to the term Cherven Cities ("Red Cities"). [c]

  5. 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.

  6. Military ranks and insignia of the Soviet Union (1918–1935)

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    Iconic buildings in Russia already sporting a revolutionary hue alongside Krasnaia also meaning beautiful gave the colour additional propaganda usage to the Bolsheviks. [13] Despite these positive traits, for centuries a red flag on tall town buildings had a more sinister meaning - a plague outbreak; in the early days of the Civil War this led ...

  7. History of red - Wikipedia

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    The color red also included a wide variety of different cultural means of the color red. ... 40,000 years ago, Late Stone Age ... a Red Horse, by the Russian ...

  8. Uniforms and insignia of the Red Army (1917–1924) - Wikipedia

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    On 23 February 1917, [a] Russia burst into a revolution and with it came the fall of the Tsardom and the establishment of a Provisional Government. [3] The defining factor in the fall of the Autocracy was the lack of support from the military: Both soldiers and sailors rebelled against their officers and joined the masses. [4]

  9. Red Russia - Wikipedia

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    Red Russia or Red Russian may refer to: Communism in Russia; in particular: The Bolsheviks, party that seized power in Russia during the 1917 October Revolution;