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  2. 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.

  3. Flag of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic

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    The flag of the Russian SFSR was a defacement of the flag of the USSR. The constitution stipulated: The state flag of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic (SFSR) presents itself as a red, rectangular sheet with a light-blue stripe at the pole extending all the width [read height] which constitutes one eighth length of the flag.

  4. 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.

  5. List of Russian flags - Wikipedia

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    State flag of the Soviet Union: The first flag of the Soviet Union is a red flag with the state emblem in the center and fimbriated in white. 1923–1924: 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

  6. Communist symbolism - Wikipedia

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    The red flag, the hammer and sickle and the red star or variations thereof are some of the symbols adopted by communist movements, governments, and parties worldwide. 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 ...

  7. List of flags by color combination - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of flags of states, territories, former, and other geographic entities (plus a few non-geographic flags) sorted by their combinations of dominant colors. Flags emblazoned with seals , coats of arms , and other multicolored emblems are sorted only by their color fields.

  8. List of flags with blue, red, and white stripes - Wikipedia

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    The American flag or Stars and Stripes made a major contribution to the modern flag tradition and the idea of a flag representing both population and government, like the French flag after the Revolution. [2] The various blue, white, and red striped banners were adopted, somewhat changing the order and position of stripes (vertical and horizontal).

  9. Flag of the Mari Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic

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    After changing the flag of the RSFSR, the Mari flag changed accordingly. As in the RSFSR, the red flag with a blue stripe along the pole was the flag, the width of the strip was 1/8 the length of the cloth, on the red field at the pole there was a golden sickle and hammer, a red star with a gold border and the name of the republic in Russian. [2]