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The second flag of the Soviet Union with the golden fimbriated canton, adopted shortly after the end of the Russian Civil War. 1924–1936: The third flag of the Soviet Union. 1936–1955: The fourth flag of the Soviet Union, this design was prominently used during the Second World War. 1955–1991: The fifth and final flag of the Soviet Union.
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.
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.
Flag of the Russian SFSR (right) on a 1954 stamp with the flag of the Ukrainian SSR (left). The stamp celebrates the 300th anniversary of the reunification of Ukraine with Russia. The penultimate USSR-era flag was adopted by the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic in 1954 and used until 1991.
New York: Oxford University Press, 1985. Daniels, Robert V. "The Soviet Union in Post‐Soviet Perspective" Journal of Modern History (2002) 74#2 pp: 381–391. in JSTOR; Davies, R. W. ed. From Tsarism to the New Economic Policy: Continuity and Change in the Economy of the USSR. (Cornell UP, 1991) Fitzpatrick, Sheila, et al. eds. Russia in the ...
The flags of New York City include the flag of New York City, the respective flags of the boroughs of The Bronx, Brooklyn, Manhattan, Queens, and Staten Island, and flags of certain city departments. The city flag is a vertical tricolor in blue , white , and orange and charged in the center bar with the seal of New York City in blue.
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Flag of the People's Commissar of internal affairs of the USSR: 16.11.1950 — 21.04.1964 Flag of minister of state security of the USSR: 21.04.1964 — 21.07.1992 Flag of chairman of KGB under the aegis of the Council of Ministers of the USSR: 16.11.1950 — 21.04.1964 Flag of commander of the Border Guard Force of the State Security Ministry ...