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Flag_of_the_Soviet_Union.svg‎ (SVG file, nominally 600 × 300 pixels, file size: 2 KB)

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فارسی: پرچم اتحاد جماهیر شوروی

Català: Bandera de la Unió Soviética

Русский: Флаг Советского Союза

Cymraeg: Baner yr Undeb Sofietaidd

Dansk: Sovjetunionens flag

Deutsch: Flagge der Sowjetunion

Ελληνικά: Σημαία της Σοβιετικής Ένωσης (Ε.Σ.Σ.Δ)

English: Flag of the Soviet Union

Esperanto: Flago de Sovetunio

Español: Bandera de la Unión Soviética

Suomi: Neuvostoliiton lippu

Français : Drapeau de l'Union soviétique

Magyar: A Szovjetunió zászlója

Italiano: Bandiera dell'Unione Sovietica

日本語: ソビエト連邦の国旗

한국어: 소비에트 연방의 국기

Malti: Bandiera ta' L- Unjoni Sovjetika

Македонски: Знамето на Советската Унија

Nnapulitano: Bannera 'e ll'Aunione Sovietica

‪Norsk (bokmål)‬: Sovjetunionens flag

Polski: Flaga Związku Radzieckiego

Português: Bandeira da União Soviética

Svenska: Sovjetunionens flagga

Türkçe: Sovyetler Birliği Bayrağı

Українська: Прапор СРСР

中文: 苏维埃联邦国旗

Български: Знаме на Съюза на съветските социалистически републики (СССР)

The flag of the Soviet Union, based on http://www.bastisoft.de/flags/historic/Flag_of_the_Soviet_Union.png

Licensing

This image shows a flag, a coat of arms, a seal or some other official insignia. The use of such symbols is restricted in many countries. These restrictions are independent of the copyright status.

This image has been released into the public domain by its author, Pianist. This applies worldwide.

In some countries this may not be legally possible; if so:
Pianist grants anyone the right to use this work for any purpose, without any conditions, unless such conditions are required by law.

This image has been released into the public domain by its author, Zscout370. This applies worldwide.

In some countries this may not be legally possible; if so:
Zscout370 grants anyone the right to use this work for any purpose, without any conditions, unless such conditions are required by law.

This work is not an object of copyright according to Part IV of Civil Code No. 230-FZ of the Russian Federation of December 18, 2006.

Article 1259. Objects of Copyright

Paragraph 5

Copyright shall not apply to ideas, concepts, principles, methods, processes, systems, means, solutions of technical, organizational and other problems, discoveries, facts, programming languages.

Paragraph 6

Shall not be objects of copyright:

official documents of state government agencies and local government agencies of municipal formations, including laws, other legal texts, judicial decisions, other materials of legislative, administrative and judicial character, official documents of international organizations, as well as their official translations;
state symbols and signs (flags, emblems, orders, banknotes, and the like), as well as symbols and signs of municipal formations;
works of folk art (folklore), which don't have specific authors;
news reports on events and facts, which have a purely informational character (daily news reports, television programs, transportation schedules, and the like).

Full text of the Code: in Russian.

Comment – According to interstate and international compacts, the Russian Federation is the legal successor of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics; therefore, this license tag is also applicable to official symbols and formal documents of the Russian SFSR and the USSR (union level^[1]).

Warning – This license tag cannot be applied to proposed official symbols and drafts of formal documents, which can be copyrighted.

↑ The union level means that use of official symbols and the formal documents of 14 other Soviet Republics is the subject of law of their legal successor. See respective license tags.

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File history

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	Date/Time	Thumbnail	Dimensions	User	Comment
current	22:58, 29 January 2008		600×300 (2 KB)	MaggotMaster	(Some mistakes in previous version, should be 1200x600, reverting)
	22:23, 29 January 2008		1,500×750 (9 KB)	MaggotMaster
	12:59, 7 January 2008		600×300 (2 KB)	Pianist	(I corrected proportions and colors according to «ПОЛОЖЕНИЕ О ГОСУДАРСТВЕННОМ ФЛАГЕ СОЮЗА СОВЕТСКИХ СОЦИАЛИСТИЧЕСКИХ РЕСПУБЛИК»)
	17:19, 15 August 2007		600×300 (4 KB)	R-41	(Fixing colour error again, did not work last time for some reason)
	17:16, 15 August 2007		600×300 (4 KB)	R-41	(colour error fixed)
	03:54, 18 July 2007		600×300 (4 KB)	R-41	(Recoloured the red to the shade used for the RSFSR flag)
	05:00, 9 May 2007		600×300 (3 KB)	Zscout370	(Fixed the flag according to the talk page and according to the Soviet laws I have on me.)
	20:49, 28 February 2006		600×300 (3 KB)	Urmas	(hammer and sickle)
	05:43, 3 February 2006		600×300 (2 KB)	Zscout370	(Re-did everything by hand)
	00:58, 16 December 2005		600×300 (4 KB)	Zscout370	(I group stuff together, but for some reason, it cut down on the file size.)