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Between 1919 and 1927, the flag was red, with the Cyrillic characters ССРБ (SSRB) in the top left-hand corner. In early 1919, a plain red flag was used. The final BSSR flag was used until the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991. A flag based on this Soviet design is used as the national flag of Belarus.
Following the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk in March 1918, which ended Russia's involvement in World War I, the Belarusian Democratic Republic (BDR) was proclaimed under German occupation; however, as German troops left, the Socialist Soviet Republic of Byelorussia was established in its place by the Bolsheviks in December, and it was later merged ...
Flag of the Soviet Socialist Republic of Belarus: Plain red flag 1937–1940: Flag of the Byelorussian SSR: 1942–1944: Belarusian Central Council: 1943–1945: Union of Belarusian Youth: 1944–1951: Flag of the Byelorussian SSR: 1951–1991: Flag of the Byelorussian SSR: Reverse flag: All flags of the constituent republics of the Soviet ...
Republic of Belarus Use National flag and ensign Proportion 1:2 Adopted 25 December 1951 ; 73 years ago (1951-12-25) (Soviet version) 7 June 1995 ; 29 years ago (1995-06-07) (original design with a thinner ornament pattern) 10 February 2012 ; 12 years ago (2012-02-10) (current design with a thicker ornament pattern) Design A unequal horizontal bicolour of red over green in a 2:1 ratio, with a ...
Comment – This license tag is also applicable to official documents, state symbols and signs of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (union level [1]). Warning – This license tag is not applicable to drafts of official documents, proposed official symbols and signs, which can be ...
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.
Comment – According to interstate and international compacts the Republic of Belarus is the legal successor of the Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic, therefore this license tag is also applicable to official symbols and formal documents of the Byelorussian SSR.
The republic was re-established under the same name on 31 July 1920. However, in traditional Soviet historiography it has been referred to as the Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic (BSSR), its name after the incorporation into the Soviet Union in 1922.