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	Flag of the Soviet Union - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		This flag was the official flag for four months, and was replaced as the official flag by the more familiar "hammer and sickle" design during the third session of the CIK of the USSR on 12 November 1923.
		The newly adopted official flag of the Soviet Union consisted of a plain red flag, with a hammer crossed with a sickle and a red star in the upper hoist.
		With disintegration of USSR on December 3, 1991, the flag ceased to be a national flag.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Flag_of_the_Soviet_Union (473 words)

	Flag of the Soviet Union (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The flag of the Soviet Union consisted of a plain red flag, with a hammer crossed with a sickle and a red star in the upper hoist.
		This flag was adopted on November 13, 1923.
		On April 15, 1996 Boris Yeltsin signed a presidential decree giving the Soviet flag (called the Victory Flag, after the banner that was raised above Reichstag on May 1, 1945) the status similar to that of the national flag.
	www.arikah.net /encyclopedia/Soviet_flag (208 words)

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		municipal flags in province of hainault (belgium)
		norway - a flag for bergen in 1799?
		proposals for the chuvash flag in 1992 (russia)
	www.netlinkit.dk /fotw/flags/keywordh.html (1743 words)

	Karelia in Soviet Union (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		This is the flag Paskov [pas94] describes as "The Flag of the Russian Federation adopted in the Olonets Province in 1918".
		The State Flag of the Karelo-Finnish Soviet Socialist Republic shall be a cloth, consisting of three colored strips horizontally placed: The upper being red; the middle being light blue, comprising one-sixth the width of the flag, and the lower, green, comprising one-fifth the width of the flag.
		The proportion of the width of the flag to its length shall be 1:2.
	www.crwflags.com /fotw/flags/su-kf.html (1155 words)

	Encyclopedia: Soviet flag (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The first official flag of the Soviet Union was adopted in July of 1923.
		It was of a 4 to 1 ratio in proportion and consisted of a red flag with the state coat of arms in the center.
		This flag was the official flag for four months, and was replaced as the official flag by the more familiar "hammer and sickle" design on November 13, 1923.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Soviet-flag (317 words)

	Soviet flag - AskTheBrain.com
		Flags associated with the Soviet occupation and the old regime are hardly "popular" and so useful to smear the protests.
		The Soviet flag comes down and the Russian flag is raised over the Kremlin as the Soviet Union is officially disbanded.
		The new flags were determined with the Dictates of Presidium of Supreme Supreme Soviets of federal republics: [Images: ] Russian SFSR - 9 April 1954.
	www.askthebrain.com /flag_soviet-.html (286 words)

	Encyclopedia: Flag (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Some fanfictions show FLAG that it was founed by a young Wilton Knight, however, other fan-made stories see FLAG as brand new at the time of Knight Rider's pilot episode, Knight of the Phoenix.
		FLAG is a 28,000 kilometer long undersea fiber optic cable that connects England, Japan, and many places in between.
		A flag is a piece of coloured cloth flown from a pole or mast, usually for purposes of signalling or identification.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Flag (242 words)

	Soviet Flag over the Reichstag Building 1945 (Germany) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		[Cameraman] Khaldei had made the flag in the photograph himself from red tablecloths from Tass [Soviet press agency], which were emblazoned with the hammer and sickle like the Soviet flag.
		From this account it becomes clear that the famous photograph [by Khaldei] of [standard-bearers] Egorov and Kantariya planting the Red Flag on the roof of the Reichstag could not have been taken at that historic moment.
		Moreover, the soldiers in the street appear to be moving about quite fearlessly and openly, which they would not have done had fighting still been going on all around them — as it was at the time the banner was first held aloft.
	atlasgeo.span.ch /fotw/flags/de1945rt.html (370 words)

	Soviet Air Force (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The details of the Soviet AF ensign is not clear, but compared with the army flag next to it, I am quite sure that the AF ensign has the same proportion as that of the army (i.e.
		The Soviet AF flag image of this NGM booklet [gsh34] is a fairly faithful reproduction, I would say, except that the rays should be roughly as wide as the blue “strips”.
		In 1924, the Soviet Union adopted for its Air Force a a design similar to the earlier flag of the Aeronautic Section of the Imperial Russian Navy.
	www.crwflags.com /fotw/flags/su^af.html (694 words)

	Ukraine - Proposals # fahnenversand.de - Fahnen Flaggen Fahne Flagge Nationalflaggen Nationalflagge Shop Flaggenshop ...
		Flag of Ukraine in that time was the Soviet red flag with a blue stripe at the bottom.
		flags and Coat of Arms (triangle flags, flags with the Coat of Arms in the centre etc.) which are projects designed in 1930' by Ukrainian emigrant Bytinsky.
		A political proposal was made in Ukraine: flag half red and half blue over yellow (add of yellow stripe in lower part in the old soviet flag) but was rejected.
	www.fahnenversand.de /fotw/flags/ua!.html (379 words)

	soviet flag resource information and related sites (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The Soviet flag was raised in Pikk Hermann Tower as a symbol of the new occupation.
		On December 25, Gorbachev resigned, and at midnight of December 31, the Soviet flag atop the Kremlin was replaced by the Russian tricolor.
		ABM -- The Flags of Belarus
	www.flag-spot.info /resources/sovietflag (1256 words)

	Mikhail Gorbachev: The True Meaning of the Soviet Flag
		Despite the turmoil that has occurred under his leadership, Gorbachev is unlike all of the Soviet leaders of the past, who have refused to talk with the heads of state of the free world.
		Long viewed as a symbol of communistic repression and a threat to the West, the flag of the Soviet Union, with its Hammer and Sickle, attests to the prophetic destiny of God on this great nation.
		In the West's fear of the spread of communism, we have missed a greater significance behind the symbols of the Soviet flag.
	www.forerunner.com /forerunner/X0667_Gorbachev_-_Soviet_f.html (559 words)

	SOVIET UNION Red Flag - AskTheBrain.com
		The flags featured are the current flags of all the nations which previously made up the former Soviet Union and at the center is the University of Chicago's official shield.
		After the forcible annexation of Estonia by the Soviet Union in June, 1940, this flag was banned.
		After Lithuania's occupation and annexation by the Soviet Union, the flag was placed under a ban and anyone flying it incurred severe punishment.
	www.askthebrain.com /flag_soviet_union-.html (213 words)

	USSR Flag (Soviet flag)
		This flag is the former flag of the now defunct Soviet Union.
		When adopted in 1914, the communists banned all other flags of the member republics of the USSR.
		When abandoned, most of these independent republic flags were restored.
	www.ultimateflags.com /novelty/ussr.html (97 words)

	Construction details of the Soviet flags
		The colour plate (on whose backside is printed the b/w construction sheet) is said to have been published by decree of the Preasidium of the Supreme Soviet on 1980.08.15, although the preambulum of the Constitution (whose section VIII deals with the arms, flag, anthem and capital of the Soviet Union), was approved on 1977.10.07.
		The USSR flag had in front a hammer and sickle and the back was a plain red flag with nothing on it.
		The flag was approved in 1923 and finally settled in 1924; the shape of the hammer and sickle was slightly corrected and exactly prescribed in 1955.
	fotw.fivestarflags.com /su%27.html (668 words)

	BBC - History - The Soviet Union's Last Stand (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The Soviet Union - the world's first communist state - was consigned to the pages of history.
		Soviet troops had withdrawn from Afghanistan, from the Warsaw Pact, the Berlin Wall had fallen and perestroika had not led to communism's reform but to its rejection across Eastern Europe.
		In fact the fate of the Soviet Union was in the balance.
	www.bbc.co.uk /history/war/coldwar/soviet_stand_01.shtml (435 words)

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		soviet union /russian red and white russian flag with hammer and sickle on it with russian words written on it
		soviet union /russian picture of a guy running a communist party meeting with a russian soviet flag in the background
		soviet union /russian picture of marx and lennin with hammer and sickle soviet logo on it.
	www.geocities.com /gifs_political (2119 words)

	flag of Soviet Union flags, Fahnen, Flaggen, FOTW bei Nationalflaggen.de
		If the flag was “flipped” as the US flag is, the HandS faced “down” and was reversed.
		According to my understanding, the HandS appeared only on the obverse of the Soviet flag and the reverse was plain red.
		The state emblem of the Soviet Union (corresponding to a coat of arms) had the Earth superimposed by the hammer and sicle.
	www.nationalflaggen.de /flags-of-the-world/flags/su.html (504 words)

	Russian Duma /Putin Reject the Soviet Flag (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The present flag of Russia is a flag that the World War II Russian traitor, General Vlasov, used to fight on the side of German fascism against the Soviet people and the Soviet Red Army and its Red Flag.
		To fly this flag on the 60th Anniversary of the defeat of fascism is to honour fascism, and dishonour the glorious victory that saved humanity from this Nazi scourge, at the cost of 26 26,000,000 lives.
		Any Soviet World War II veteran that will march under this semi-fascist flag is humiliating their Red Army buddies who fought and died so that humanity can live and that their memories would not be desecrated by a flag against which they fought and died.
	www.northstarcompass.org /nsc0505/duma.htm (317 words)

	Soviet Flag (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Soviet flag laws clearly distinguish between this shade of red...
		USSR on 12 November 1923, the description of Soviet flag in the Constitution was changed, and article 71...
		In it the Soviet flag is described with a crossed sickle and...
	www.banners-and-flags.co.uk /6/graphics293.html (440 words)

	info - soviet union flag (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Soviet flag laws clearly distinguish between this shade of...
		USSR (Union of Soviet Socialist Republics) Flag Flag Adopted 1914 Abandoned 1991 This flag is the former flag of the now defunct Soviet Union.
		Afganistan Albania Algeria; Andorra Angola; flag Antigua and Barbuda Argentina; Armenia Austalia...
	www.urex.de /soviet_union_flag.html (291 words)

	Soviet Union Flag (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The first official flag of the Soviet Union was adopted in July...
		A decade after the implosion of the Soviet Union in December 1991, Russia is still struggling to establish...
		The obverse of the flag of the Soviet Union consists of a plain red flag, with a hammer crossed...
	www.banners-and-flags.co.uk /6/graphics294.html (318 words)

	Soviet Red Flag, Russian Army, Putin - JRL 8-26-03
		The number of respondents willing to have the red flag with the hammer and sickle back decreased four percent compared to November 2001 and comprised 24 percent.
		At the same time 80 percent of 1,500 respondents welcomed the decision of President Vladimir Putin to reinstate the red flag as the official symbol of the national armed forces.
		Sixteen percent recalled the tricolor replaced the Soviet flag after the 1991 foiled hard-line Communist coup attempt and the collapse of the Soviet Union.
	www.cdi.org /russia/Johnson/7300-3.cfm (266 words)

	Aeroflot (Soviet Union) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Flag of Aeroflot was red with small yellow star in canton and blue triangle near staff, with the emblem of the company in the centre of the triangle.
		A strange flag following Russian and Soviet Air Force ensign pattern (blue and yellow gyronny), with the Aeroflot logo and a red star.
		This was a real flag, shown at eBay (an auction site), but it seems to be some kind of flag forgery for tourists, as no law about it was passed — real Aeroflot flag(s) are quite different.
	www.buschauer.dynip.com /fotw/flags/su_aflot.html (229 words)

	National Symbolism in Belarus: the Past and Present. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		In the early 1950s Moscow ordered the administrations of the Soviet republics to complement the Bolshevik red flags featuring a hammer and sickle (that were considered state flags in all the member republics of the Soviet Union) with some standardised details to symbolise the "specificity" of each territory.
		In the 1980s, the Pahonya and the white, red and white flag becamethewell-known symbols of Belarus and independence, while their public demonstration was unambiguously interpreted by the authorities and their opponents as an act of national resistance.
		It was under the white, red and white flag that the first Opposition political meeting authorised by the BSSR authorities was held at the Dynamo Stadium in Minsk on February-19, 1989.
	www.belarusguide.com /statehood/Belarusian_symbols.htm (4262 words)

	Soviet Union best flag in the world. Soviet Union desk flags. Soviet Union flag here.
		Flag size is 3 inches x 4 inches.
		We produce custom flags, state flags, country flags, military flags, and even Soviet Union flags.
		Flags are made of a cotton/poly rubber blend.
	www.deskflags.com /country/soviet.htm (102 words)

	Red Flag Over the Reichstag - PRAVDA.Ru
		It is difficult to say what might have happened to the Soviet Army if it hadn’t had the home front of moral and political unity of the Soviet nations, successful work and readiness for self-sacrifice for the sake of common well-being typical of all Soviet people.
		That was the triumph of Soviet strategic skills and the military valor of the Soviet army.
		Alexey Berest said that the guys fastened the flag to bronze horses, to a statue on the top of the building, with their belts so that the Soviet flag could wave there for a long period of time.
	english.pravda.ru /main/18/87/347/9934_victory.html (1494 words)

	Flags HQ : Soviet Flag
		History of the flag, its colors, the coat of arms, and the national anthem.
		Flags HQ does not warrant or guarantee the accuracy or completeness of the content available on this Website.
		Flags HQ excludes all liability of any kind (including negligence) in respect of any third party information or other material made available on, or which can be accessed using, this Website.
	www.flags-hq.com /sovietflag/index.php (577 words)

	Indiainfo.com -> News -> World -> Russia restores Soviet anthem, flag (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Moscow: Russia's parliament overwhelmingly approved Friday President Vladimir Putin's request to reinstate a Stalin-era anthem tune and a tsarist flag and eagle as the country's post-Soviet state symbols.
		That tune, along with the coat of arms and flag, were only temporary stand-ins approved by decree under Yeltsin.
		Putin, keen to bolster Russia's nationhood, earlier this week defended the Soviet anthem, saying he wanted to unite Russians by taking the best from their tumultuous history.
	newsarchives.indiainfo.com /2000/12/10/flag.html (635 words)

	sovflags (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		SOVIET NAVAL FLAG BOOK: 1964 Russian Naval publication for use on board Soviet Navy Warships, has 10 pages of Russian text, and 26 Soviet flag plates in color (comes with separate english translation sheet of plate captions) - Great Cold War item...
		SOVIET NAVAL FLAGS: Flags are screen printed on durable sea service grade fabric.
		Fly rope sleave canvas header is marked with pre-fall of the Soviet Union date and Russian military flag factory origin or makers cyrillic lettering.
	home.att.net /~oldpatch/sovflag.htm (91 words)

	Old Soviet Union Flag
		This Old Soviet Union flag is authentically reproduced with special attention to detail and durability.
		Each flag is available for outdoor use, made with a heavy polyester heading and two brass grommets, or for indoor use with lined pole hem, velcro tabs and fringe.
		This flag is available in 3' X 5' size only.
	www.njflags.com /oldsounfl.html (137 words)

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