▇Union of Communist Democratic Soviet Republics
of the Free People of Yuwodeyun
The national flag of the Soviet Union is a tricolour of three horizontal stripes: black on the top and bottom and red in the middle. It's defaced in the middle by a hammer and compass, surrounded by a wreath of rye that is decorated at the bottom by a black-red-black ribbon. The state flag differs in several ways: it features a different shade of red, the red stripe encompassing the emblem, and a laurel wreath surrounding it.Notably, the symbolism of the colours changed from the red/black flag of the toasetian proto-communists. Whereas there the red represented the mourning of lost comrades and the black the rejection of the old order, in the Soviet Flag, the black represents the fallen fighters of the Great Socialist Revolution, and red represents the "shining future of socialism". The darker shade in the state flag also represents the dead, mourning "those of our comrades, the heroic heroes, who over the years gave their lives to see our great Soviet Union prosper". The Flags holds two black stripes because Rednedonia and Toasete are the two founding Union Republics.
The emblem represents how the Workers (Hammer), Intelligentsia (Compass) and Peasants (Wreath of Rye) came together to overthrow the remaining aristocrats and stop the restoration of the Monarchy. The laurel wreath represents "the glorious success of the Soviet Union over a century of Reaction".
The flags designs are outlined in
Chapter 8 of the Soviet Constitution.For vertical display, the flag features a distinct variant, with the emblem being rotated by 90 degrees.
History
Up until Lejine's centralisation of the Soviet Union, there was no official flag, with the Flags of Rednedonia and Toasete both being equal symbols of the state. Following the coup, the Toasetian flag became its sole flag. In June 1808, under the pressure of rednedonian nationalists, the current flag was adopted.
When the Teretoseki Constitution was adopted in 1831, the design of the Flags was determined in Chapter 8, Articles 181-183.
During the 100th anniversary of the formation of the Soviet Union, Dr Fehirekezhe Zhitjorani created the State flag to honour the dead of previous wars.
Under the Dictatorship of Ijawahane Tjazhjakareseki, the Soviet Flag was not used in favour of the party flag of the National Socialist Front.
In 2015, the hexadecimal values of the state flag's colours were added to the constitution.
Until 1957, only the naval ensign existed, with the other two only being added then. In 1975, the Federation of Socialist States forced the Soviet Union to change the shade of red on the civil ensign to match that of the civil flag to reduce the chance of confusion with the state ensign by those who don't speak Esperanto.
In 2017, the Centre Party unsuccessfully tried to replace the Wreath of Rye with a visually identical element composed of binary numbers to signify the growing importance of the IT industry.
Defined in the Flag Law
See also:
Soviet Flag Law[Page does not exist]Several other flags are outlined in the Law for the determination of Flags of the Soviet Union and the Interior Ministry's State Symbol Registry outside the constitution. Notably, the "ITopro flag" (where the wreath of rye is composed of 1s and 0s) is a rejected flag change by the Centre Party to "highlight the growing importance of the IT industry". Its name is derived from a comment of the Commissioner for Digitalisation on the matter: "IT is proletariat". Following its rejection by the Supreme Soviet, the Constitutional Court found that when the wreath is still discernible, the flag is an acceptable variation of the Soviet Flag.
Both the "Pride" flag (shown here is only the generic variant of the flag) and the "Blood Banner" are determined only in the State Symbol Registry and noted to be intended for celebratory use.
The blood banner is used during March to celebrate the anniversary of the Great Socialist Revolution. Its origins are unknown, but it is believed to have originally been an improvised version of the army flag.
The Soviet Pride flags are managed by the Confederation of Marginalised Sexuality and Gender Identities per the Ministry for the Interior's task. They are used during Pride Month, which is meant to improve government opinion among LGBTQIA+ people and symbolise the greater commitment towards their issues recently.
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Union Republic Flags
See also:Republics of the Soviet Union (WIP)Each CDSR has its own flags. Only the state flags of the Union Republics are also recognised as official symbols of the Soviet Union. These follow a unitary design. The republics also have civil flags that are sometimes officially used when it's necessary to distinguish between the republics more easily.
