Flags of the Soviet Republics
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, (the only exception being the Georgian SSR, which uses a red hammer and sickle), and a gold-bordered red star on a red field. Their final versions prior to the dissolution of the USSR in 1991 looked like this:
 Flag of the Russian SFSR |
 Flag of the Ukrainian SSR |
 Flag of the Byelorussian SSR |
 Flag of the Uzbek SSR |
 Flag of the Kazakh SSR |
 Flag of the Georgian SSR |
 Flag of the Azerbaijan SSR |
 Flag of the Lithuanian SSR |
 Flag of the Moldavian SSR |
 Flag of the Latvian SSR |
 Flag of the Kirghiz SSR |
 Flag of the Tajik SSR |
 Flag of the Armenian SSR |
 Flag of the Turkmen SSR |
 Flag of the Estonian SSR |
The official flags of the Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republics (ASSR) were seldom used, and were simply the flag of the republic to which the ASSR belonged defaced with the ASSR name in its own language(s) and the official language of the SSR.
Today, the only former Soviet Union territories that use modified versions of their original Soviet flag are the unrecognized republic of Transnistria (former region of the Moldavian SSR) and Belarus (since 1995).
[edit] Flags of dissolved republics
 Flag of the Karelo-Finnish SSR (1940-1956) |
 Flag of the Transcaucasian SFSR (1922-1936) |
[edit] Flags of other republics
 Flag of the Abkhazian SSR (1921-1931)[1] |
- ^ Despite its name Abkhazian SSR was never a Union Republic of Soviet Union but had a special contractual republic of Georgian SSR status (see Abkhazian Soviet Socialist Republic#Status) more similar to the Autonomous republics of the Soviet Union.
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