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Ben Werner,
Student Newspaper Editor
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Mayday used to be a time here when Soviet flags appeared in most windows and soudruzi ("comrades") flocked to parades in honor of the ruling class.
Flags associated with the Soviet occupation and the old regime are hardly "popular" and so useful to smear the protests.
All autonomous soviet socialist republics have their state flags.
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Richard Hosking,
Paranormal Investigator
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This was the origin of his excellent series of images on Soviet flags.
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Sveta Romanova,
Intelligence Officer
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The Soviet flag comes down and the Russian flag is raised over the Kremlin as the Soviet Union is officially disbanded.
Karelo-Finnish SSR After the victorious end of the Big Patriot War the new designs of the state flags of soviet socialist republics were made.
The new flags were determined with the Dictates of Presidium of Supreme Supreme Soviets of federal republics: [Images: ] Russian SFSR - 9 April 1954.
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Jack Crawford,
WWII Veteran
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We also deal with flags, medals, books, and postwar uniforms of the Soviet Armed Forces.
The flags and parades disappeared the moment communism did, as if to show that the camaraderie with the former Soviet Union had just been a hollow pretense.
It is part of a larger WWW site, Flags of the World , an excellent source on national flags, past and present, which also provides a History of Soviet Flags.
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Josh Hogan,
Commander
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Soviet civil maritime flags.
This is one of the first Soviet flags hoisted over an American public building.
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