Flag of the Soviet Union
The first official flag of the Soviet Union (Russian: флаг Советского Союза / Transcription: Flag sowjetskogo sojusa ) was adopted in December 1922 on the first Congress of Soviets of the USSR.
- 2.1 Flags of Soviet Socialist Republics ( 1922-1991 ) 2.1.1 Original Flag of the Union Republics ( 1922 to 1950 )
- 2.1.2 Subsequent flags of the Union Republics (ca. 1950-1991 )
- 2.1.3 Flags of the Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republics ( 1922-1991 )
History
The Red Flag of the Communist Party was declared the national flag.
On December 30, 1922, the Congress adopted a declaration on the establishment and the first constitution of the Soviet Union. Article 22 of the Constitution adopted declared: The USSR has a national flag, a national coat of arms and a state seal.
On July 6, 1923, resolved that the flag should exist in the center of a red cloth with the state emblem of the Soviet Union. It was voted the freak flag format 1:4. This flag was never used on a larger scale and was only four months in official use.
The third meeting of the Central Executive Committee of the Soviet Union changed on 12 November 1923, the flag in the generally -known version. It was chosen the more common 1:2 format. The coat of arms was replaced by a gelbumrandeten five-pointed red star and an underlying hammer and sickle symbol in the naval jack.
The flag was changed so as on 15 August 1980 that the flag was designed lighter and the symbols on the back accounted for, so this was plain red. As early as 1955 in the form of a hammer and sickle on the flag had been somewhat varied, these remained.
With the dissolution of the Soviet Union on December 3, 1991, the flag of the Soviet Union lost its function as a national flag.
On 15 April 1996, the Russian President Boris Yeltsin signed a statement that called the victory flag of the Russian flag is equivalent, making this variant of the flag of the Soviet Union was declared the second National flag of Russia.
The Victory Banner is a variant of the flag that was hoisted on 1 May 1945 at the Diet building and symbolized the end of the Second World War in Europe. The difference with the flag of the Soviet Union is that the star is slightly larger and the hammer and sickle are removed.
Under President Vladimir Putin was the flag of victory to the official flag of the Russian army.
On 20 April 2007 the controversial law was abolished on the flag of victory by President Putin again.
Service flags to 1991
Historical Development (1922-1991)
Today's use (since 1996)
Flags of the subjects of the Soviet Union
Flag of Soviet Socialist Republics (1922-1991)
Under the Constitution, the Soviet Union was a Federal State, the Soviet Socialist Republics ( SSR) belonged.
These republics were also referred to as Union Republics.
An exception was the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic ( RSFSR ), in whose name the federal character was underlined.
The Union republics, in particular the RSFSR, had partially self- federal members who were referred to as Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republics ( ASSR ).
Original Flag of the Union Republics ( 1922 to 1950 )
First, the Union republics and ASSR caused a red flag with a text in the left upper canton. The text consisted of the abbreviation of the country name in Cyrillic and Russian language and the language of the people in Cyrillic, Latin or own script.
Among reappeared in several languages of the advertised name of the country. In republics with several nations or peoples who use their own script, rows were inserted. From the mid- 1930s, the abbreviations below the advertised name of the Republic were replaced by the hammer and sickle and placed in multiple languages.
Later flags of the Union Republics (ca. 1950-1991 )
At the beginning of the 1950s led the Union republics a new flags, which, although still on the flag of the Soviet Union based but were supplemented with your own colors and symbols. The text with the name of SSR has been removed from the flag.
Flags of the Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republics (1922-1991)
Originally, the flags of the ASSR were formed according to the same scheme as the SSR. On a red background was specified in the left Obereck as multilingual text the name of the ASSR and the parent SSR. Mid-1930s have been added hammer and sickle.
At the beginning of the 1950s, this provision was amended, that the name of the ASSR was depicted on the flag of the parent union republic as a yellow text.
Flags of other countries
Since the Soviet Union was the first real socialist state on earth, many communist movements rose flag of the Soviet Union as a model for their own party flags.
From Vietnam and of course the Soviet Union apart, resulted in no state of Comecon and the Warsaw Pact, commonly referred to as the Eastern Bloc, a flag. Based on the Soviet, but largely modifications of the traditional national flags by other family crests, and
After communist revolutions were successful in other countries, new national flags have been created, this had the flag of the Soviet Union and parts as a basis.
The following symbols of the Soviet flag were adopted:
- Red Flag
- Yellow star on a red background and reversal of Red Star
- Hammer and Sickle
These symbols were among themselves and combined with other flags (see also Hammer and Sickle ).
Some of them have been adapted, such as to the flag of Angola ( hammer and sickle were Machete and sprocket replaced) or the former flag of the People's Republic of the Congo ( the hammer and sickle were here hammer and hoe ), image and statement were kept:
- The Soviet hammer and sickle, the linear hammer for the working class, the semi-circular crescent stands for the farmers
- The Angolan machete and sprocket is the linear machete for the farmers, the semi-circular ring gear for the working class
- The Congolese hammer and hoe is the crossed with a hoe hammer for the unification of the peasants with the industrial workers
- The Hungarian hammer and spike is the hammer for the working class, the ear for farmers
Hammer and Sickle Communist Chinese
Machete and Gear
Hammer and hoe
Hammer and spike