Flag of The Soviet Union - Similarities With Other Flags

Similarities With Other Flags

The Soviet Union was the world's first constitutionally socialist state, making it the inspiration of future socialist states. This led to the inspirations for the flags of the Republic of Angola, the People's Republic of China, the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, the Socialist Republic of Vietnam and the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.

The flags of the Soviet republics that constituted the USSR were all defaced versions of the Soviet flag.

On 15 April 1996 Boris Yeltsin signed a presidential decree giving the Soviet flag (called the Victory Banner, after the banner that was raised above the Reichstag on 1 May 1945) status similar to that of the national flag. The difference is that the hammer and sickle has been removed from the flag. On certain holidays, the Victory Banner is flown along with the Russian flag.

  • The flag of Democratic Republic of Afghanistan

  • The flag of People's Republic of Mongolia (1921-1924)

  • The flag of People's Republic of the Congo

  • The flag of People's Republic of Benin

  • The flag of SFR Yugoslavia

  • The flag of North Korea

  • The flag of South Yemen

  • The flag of People's Republic of China (adopted in 1949)

  • The flag of Vietnam

  • The flag of North Vietnam

  • flag of Khmer Rouge Cambodia

  • The flag of Angola

  • The flag of the Chinese Communist Party

  • The Flag of the Shining Path

See also: Flags of the Soviet Republics


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