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  2. Flag of the Soviet Union - Wikipedia

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    The first official flag was adopted in December 1922 at the First Congress of Soviets of the USSR. It was agreed that the red banner "was transformed from the symbol of the Party to the symbol of a state, and around that flag gathered the peoples of the soviet republics to unite into one state — the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics".

  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. List of Russian flags - Wikipedia

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    1922–1923: 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 ...

  5. File:Flag of the Soviet Union (1922–1923).svg - Wikipedia

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    Reverted to version as of 18:18, 14 February 2023 (UTC) Keep it with File:Coat of arms of the Soviet Union (1929–1936).svg 11:54, 27 July 2023 1,200 × 600 (410 KB)

  6. 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

  7. List of Soviet flags - Wikipedia

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    Flags of the Soviet Union; Flags of the Soviet Republics This page was last edited on 16 April 2022, at 07:30 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons ...

  8. State Emblem of the Soviet Union - Wikipedia

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    In the autumn of 1922, the Commission for the Development of Soviet Symbolics began its work in Goznak. In those days, compositions of the first Soviet brands and banknotes were created. On 10 January 1923, the Presidium of the Central Executive Committee of the USSR established a commission for the development of the state emblem and flag.

  9. 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 ...