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	flag of Subnational flags of the Soviet Union flags
		They may have the same purpose as coats of arms, but they do not follow the rules of heraldry — and that was made on purpose, becasue the communists (wrongly) connected heraldry with the late Emperor and the upper class.
		Only among the national coats of arms there are easily found examples of shield-less coat of arms, mainly influenced by Soviet “heraldry” (though, there are other reasons, too, why some countries rejected the shield in their coats of arms).
		The SFSR status indicated that that republic itself was a federation of several ASSRs (Autonomous Socialist Soviet Republics), possibly also with "non-ASSR" territory, so to speak, as in the case of the Russian SFSR.
	www.flags-of-the-world.net /flags/su-.html (1536 words)

	Estonian History
		One aspect of the legacy left by the Soviet occupation in Estonia was the radical changes undergone in the demographics of the population.
		The large coat of arms of the city, with three blue lions against a gold background, comes from the coat of arms of the Danish king, who was once the ruling sovereign.
		The small coat of arms, with a white Latin cross against a red background comes from the national Danish flag of dannebrog, which, according to legend, fell from the sky after a battle over Tallinn's fortress.
	www.revalclinic.com /england/history.htm (1314 words)

	Russian subnational flags
		Sovereign flags and coats of arms of Russian regions (by Yury Rocich): at http://www.chat.ru/~heraldica/ and http://www.geraldika.ru/
		Construction of civic arms divided per fess (with arms of provincial centre in upper part) is used in Russia since 1780ths.
		These regions are almost identical to those of the soviet era, the only differences being the new Northern economic region (including Karelia, Komia, Nenetsia, Vologda Region, Arkhangelsk Region and Murmansk Region) carved out from the Northwestern economic region, and the joining to the Northwestern economic region of Kaliningrad Region.
	www.allstates-flag.com /fotw/flags/ru-.html (2009 words)

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		Abundant documentary material at the disposal of the Soviet Government testifies to the fact that plunder and ruination of the population, accompanied by bestial outrage and massacre, are widespread in all districts which have fallen under the Nazi heel.
		The Soviet Government deems it its duty to bring to the knowledge of all civilized humanity, of all honest people in the world, its statement of facts illustrating the monstrous crimes committed by Hitler's army against the peaceful population of captured territories of the Soviet Union.
		There is no limit to the popular wrath and indignation called forth from the whole Soviet population and the Red Army by the innumerable instances of base violence, abominable outrage of the honor of women, and mass murder of Soviet men and women committed by the German fascist officers and soldiers.
	www.ibiblio.org /pha/policy/1942/420106b.html (6114 words)

	Muslim American Society
		Collaborating chiefs were made heads of state, and their territories were given flags, national anthems and coats of arms.
		These, too, were decked out with the external symbols of sovereignty, and in the case of two Soviet pseudostates, you didn't even have to go there to see their flags.
		I traveled through a number of these pseudostates in the course of reporting from the old Soviet Union, and we hardheaded journalists always knew, despite Soviet propaganda, that these so-called republics were nothing of the sort and never would be.
	www.masnet.org /articleinterest.asp?id=1343 (1327 words)

	Georgia in the Soviet Union
		“soviet” site dealing with the 15 federal units which composed the soviet Union in its latest stage (constitution quotes from the 1980 versions), depicting (quite poorly) the respective flags and arms.
		However, the history of the republics, their geographical position and images of coats of arms allows to explain with sufficient authority the symbolic of the colours of state flags of federal republics.
		In this “soviet” site the Georgian SSR flag is shown with two different shades of blue — both argueable light, but the stripe slightly darker than the canton.
	www.crwflags.com /fotw/flags/su-ge.html (541 words)

	CFE Treaty: Senate Committe on Armed Services Hearing, November 4, 1991
		Soviet officials have indicated that the question of CFE ratification is high on the agenda for the Supreme Soviet.
		Officials of both the center and republics have repeatedly stated their intention that all international accords and obligations undertaken by the U.S.S.R., including those in the area of arms control, should be strictly observed.
		The Soviet military's gambit to place substantial shares of equipment into its navy and allege that this meant it was not to be counted under the treaty was effectively thwarted by NATO solidarity.
	www.dod.mil /acq/acic/treaties/cfe/congress/rattest12.htm (12005 words)

	East Germany 1949-1990
		After republics were formed in east and west Germany and the use of their fl-red-gold flags was authorized, this flag was used less and less and it was finally abandoned in 1952.
		On 26 Sep 1955 the flag, which was identical to the flag of the German Federal Republic, was reaffirmed (Law on State Coat of Arms and State flag).
		The fl-red-gold with the arms (hammer and compass on a red disk surrounded by a wreath of two ears of wheat) in the center slightly overlapping the red stripe.
	flagspot.net /flags/de-ddr.html (1551 words)

	Subnational flags of the Soviet Union (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-08)
		They used flags and coats of arms of the SSRs, in structure of which they were.
		SSR flags (and most soviet flags containing red) were medium red (aka scarlet, alyĭ, or simply krasnyĭ), not dark red (aka purpure — purpurnyĭ or kropovyĭ).
		The flag is a 1:1 ratio, red background with green stripe, the only exception is that the coat of arms is in color, located in the center.
	www.crwflags.com /fotw/flags/su-.html (1821 words)

	Russian subnational flags (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-08)
		All major cities were granted arms during the Tsarist era — these exist today at least as traditional, unofficial coat of arms.
		Such are a flag in studies of presidents of Republics Karelia and Altai, the governor of the Saratov Oblast.
		In the Republic of Khakassia — is the Chairman of the Government of the Republic (Председатель Правительства
	fotw.vexillum.com /flags/ru-.html (1637 words)

	Estland
		In the years of the soviet occupation (1940 and 1944–1990) was in use until 1953 a single colour red flag, on it hammer, sickle and the initials of the country in gold.
		The coat of arms of Estonia descents from the year 1918 and shows a golden shield with three among themselves grouped lions, surrounded by oak twigs.
		It is originally the coat of arms of the town Reval (Tallin), which is borrowed again from the coat of arms of the state Denmark.
	www.flaggenlexikon.de /festland.htm (1540 words)

	History of Belarus (Great Litva)
		Memorandum of the Executive Council of the Rada of the Belarusian Democratic Republic In Exile on 2006 presidential elections in Belarus.
		Proclamation (in Smolensk!) of the Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic (BSSR) with its capital in Minsk.
		On the 19 August, 1991 the BSSR was renamed to the Republic of Belarus.
	www.belarusguide.com /as/history/history.html (2797 words)

	CFE Treaty: Senate Committee on Armed Services Hearing, November 13, 1991
		The coup attempt in August and the assertion of independence by the various republics in the Soviet Union have raised questions in regard to the CFE Treaty.
		The central government, as a treaty signatory, is held accountable for fulfilling treaty obligations throughout the territory of its constituent republics and with respect to its forces located elsewhere in the treaty area.
		Those republics which opt out of the union and accede to the treaty can be held separately accountable for obligations under the treaty.
	www.dod.mil /acq/acic/treaties/cfe/congress/rattest14.htm (13217 words)

	Litauen
		The coat of arms of Lithuania in the today's form was created in the year 1925 by Juzas Zikiris.
		In the times where Lithuania belonged to the Soviet Union was in use a soviet model, which equals the coat of arms of the Soviet Union.
		On 11th of March 1990 they re-introduced the coat of arms of 1925, but there were made some changes in 1991.
	www.flaggenlexikon.de /flitauen.htm (1828 words)

	Anthems of 15 Union republics
		Later, the population in different republics grew unevenly and the listing in the Constitution became no longer properly sorted by population, but it was kept unaltered in the 1977 Constitution.
		Coats of arms and flags of the Union republics
		All of the former SSRs (Soviet Socialist Republics) are represented, along with the famous USSR anthem which was banished for a time under Boris Yeltsin but now (with new lyrics) lives again as the anthem of the Russian Federation.
	www.hymn.ru /15-union-republics/index-en.html (1449 words)

	Subdivisions of the Soviet Union (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-08)
		Soviet era a oks (previously, n oks — soviet era names were identical to the current, with "nacionalhnyi~" instead of "avtonomnyi~" before 1977), unlike SSRs and ASSRs, didn’t have flags of their own.
		The "new society" formed by the revolution needed «new symbols», and adopted those parts of heraldry (concious or not) that suited the purpose while rejecting and changing what suited not.
		It may be that those last are more non-heraldic then others possibly also because these are the countries with much stronger heraldic tradition then other countries of the Soviet Union, and here mybe the “deheraldization” was to be most practiced.
	www.netlinkit.dk /FOTW/flags/su-.html (1028 words)

	Chinchilla Coats (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-08)
		Coats Island - Coats Island lies at the northern end of Hudson Bay in the Kivalliq Region of Nunavut.
		Michael Coats - Michael L. Coats is a former NASA astronaut born on January 16, 1946, in Sacramento, California, United States, and raised in Riverside, California.
		Royal Coat of Arms - Royal Coat of Arms Design Your Own Coat of Arms Design your personal coat of arms, with easy-to-follow instructions.
	ar86.netpage-ues.com /chinchillacoats.html (733 words)

	Features \| Protecting the world from nuclear weapons
		Up the hill is Red Square, where Soviet dictators with faces as severe as their suits once stood on a balcony at the Kremlin as massive armies and a frightening array of military hardware passed in review.
		Many times, the person responsible for monitoring nuclear materials in the former Soviet Union is a low-level elected official or perhaps a fireman with little knowledge of what he or she is controlling.
		UGA is the leading American university actively working with former Soviet governments and agencies to control the export of materials used to build nuclear devices and other weapons of mass destruction.
	www.uga.edu /gm/602/FeatProtecting.html (4215 words)

	22j1
		Washington, D.C. SECIINARY: As you know, the Armed Services Committee is currently engaged in a challenging conference with the House of Representatives on the FY 112 defense authorization bill.
		Certainly the wish of both a new Soviet Union, and of any former republics which opt for complete independence, for acceptance into and assistance from their neighbors and the world community are powerful incentives for supporting the implementation of the CFE agreement, which is seen by most Europeans as the corner.
		This suggestion been made primarily with the recalcitrant republics of the former Soviet Union in mind, republics which have indicated a desire to maintain national armies independent of the Central Government's control.
	www.fas.org /nuke/control/cfe/congress/22j1.htm (11969 words)

	Global Beat: Arms Control in the New Bush Administration: Cautious Optimism
		People like Colin Powell, Condelezza Rice and Dan Coats are no liberals, but they are also not hard- liners.
		This means keeping our pledge to deter aggression against the Republic of Korea, and strengthening security ties with Japan.
		Furthermore, outright abandonment of the ABM treaty, opposition to the test ban treaty and refusal to support the United Nations could put the U.S. on the dangerous path toward isolationism.
	www.bu.edu /globalbeat/usdefense/CLW121800.html (2197 words)

	Wesley Adamczyk, When God Looked the Other Way (Kresy-Siberia) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-08)
		The Soviets, despite having signed a treaty of nonaggression with Poland and without declaring war, entered from the east on the pretext of helping the Poles fight the Germans.
		We had heard that watches and clocks were of great value in the Soviet Union and had observed for ourselves that the Soviet soldiers walking the streets would ostentatiously wear many watches on each arm, some proudly displaying many alarm clocks attached to their belts.
		We had all heard the stories of how the Soviets were deporting innocent Polish people, killing many in the process, stealing money and jewelry, and confiscating their possessions.
	www.press.uchicago.edu /Misc/Chicago/004430.html (3568 words)

	Coats of arms of the Soviet Republics - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (via CobWeb/3.1 planet2.scs.cs.nyu.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-08)
		Coats of Arms of the Soviet Union and Soviet Republics
		Coat of arms of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
		This page was last modified 14:39, 7 October 2006.
	en.wikipedia.org.cob-web.org:8888 /wiki/Coats_of_arms_of_the_Soviet_Republics (141 words)

	Moment in Time
		Unfortunately, the only thing that I own that resembles a cape is a flag from the former Soviet Union that I acquired for some 2000 rubles while on tour with the Shuffle Demons in 1992.
		And as the money was useless in the west, and as Estonia was changing over to their own currency the day we left, we went on a 1-week shopping spree, buying, well, whatever we could find.
		Water was coming from rooftops, guys had hoses connected to their sinks, little kids had squirt bazooka of all shapes and sizes.
	temporaryautonomouszone.blogspot.com (2638 words)

	Iraq and Other Pseudo-States (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-08)
		KING LEOPOLD'S GHOST: A STORY OF GREED, TERROR AND HEROISM IN COLONIAL AFRICA, as well as books about South Africa and the former Soviet Union.
		Just as our embassy will be considerably more than an embassy, so the Iraqi state that is coming into being in its shadow, after the speechmaking and flag-raising are over, will be considerably less than a state.
		The Iraq that has come into being does not closely resemble either the South African homelands or the old Soviet republics.
	hnn.us /articles/5870.html (1251 words)

	Alba Place - Origin of Forenames
		In Russia politics has had an extensive influence on the selection of forenames though some of the older forms still survive.
		The old Soviet Union with its many cultural and diverse satellite Republics was very difficult to generalize in the matter of name origins because this diversity was race and ethnically so large.
		The Chinese with as few as 1200 different surnames are very creative with forenames or given names.
	www.albaplace.com /forenames.php (645 words)

	Coins/Medals/Orders
		Il Conio Fiorentino - Medals, coat of arms, coins, etc.
		Russian Militaria - Soviet/Russian, Russian Federation, Soviet Republics militaria; Badges, medals, orders
		Susini Rita - Coats of arms, crests, medals and portraits
	www.warscholar.com /ItemGroups/Medals.html (416 words)

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