Soviet union flag

Flag of the Soviet Union made of red fabric with a golden sickle and hammer, placed under a red star with a gold border.

USSR flag

The communist flag is a symbol of the state sovereignty of the USSR and the indestructible union of workers and peasants in the struggle to build a communist society.

The flag of the Soviet Union consisted of a plain red flag with a gold hammer crossed with a gold sickle placed beneath a gold-bordered red star. The State Flag of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics; commonly known as the Soviet flag was the official national flag of the Soviet Union from 1923 to 1991.

The soviet flag of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics is a red rectangular panel with a picture in its upper corner, a shaft, a golden sickle and a hammer and above them a red five-pointed star framed with a gold border. The ratio of the width of the flag to its length is 1: 2.

The red color of the soviet flag is a symbol of the heroic struggle of the Soviet people for the building of socialism and communism under the leadership of the CPSU. Sickle and hammer mean an unshakable alliance between the working class and the collective farm peasantry. The red five-pointed star on the ussr flag is a symbol of the ultimate triumph of the ideas of communism on the five continents of the globe.