File:Flag of the Soviet Union.svg

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Summary

DescriptionFlag of the Soviet Union.svg Flag of the USSR

Date 1955

Source

http://pravo.levonevsky.org/. Construction sheet: Construction sheet of the flag of the Soviet Union.png.

Author СССР

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Colors

Used colors:
red	rendered as `RGB 205 000 000`
yellow	rendered as `RGB 255 215 000`

Soviet Union Flag Color Scheme

Licensing

	This work is not an object of copyright according to article 1259 of Book IV of the Civil Code of the Russian Federation No. 230-FZ of December 18, 2006. 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, any forms of money, 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).
	Comment – This license tag is also applicable to official documents, state symbols and signs of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (union level^[1]). Warning – This license tag is not applicable to drafts of official documents, proposed official symbols and signs, which can be copyrighted. Warning – This Russian official document, state symbol or sign (postage stamps, coins and banknotes mainly) may incorporate one or more works that can be copyrightable if separated from this document, symbol or sign. In such a case, this work is not an object of copyright if reused in its entirety but, at the same time, extracting specific portions from this work could constitute copyright infringement. For example, the denomination and country name must be preserved on postage stamps. ↑ Official documents, state symbols and signs of 14 other Soviet Republics are the subject of law of their legal successors. See respective license tags.

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Legal disclaimer
This image contains a symbol prohibited by law in some nations, owing to it being a representation of communism, socialism, or a similar governmental structure; or of an associated political party/organization:

Georgia's parliament: On Amending the Law of Georgia "Charter of Liberty", No. 1867, 2013
Hungary: Act C of 2012 on the Criminal Code, Section 335
Indonesia's People's Consultative Assembly: UU No. 27/1999
Latvia's Saeima: Amendments to the Law on the Safety of Public Entertainment and Festivity Events (OP 2013/129.4). Ban only applies at public events.
Lithuania's Constitutional Court confirms Article 188¹⁸ of the Code of Administrative Offences. Collection, antiquarian trade and educational activities are exempt from the ban.
South Korea's National Security Act (prohibited for symbols or emblems related to North Korea)
Ukraine's Verkhovna Rada (article 436-1 of the Criminal code of Ukraine)

Imagery covered may include the hammer and sickle^en, red star, emblems/insignias, flags or images of leaders.

This file, which was originally posted to http://pravo.levonevsky.org/, was reviewed on 11 March 2017 by reviewer Daphne Lantier, who confirmed that it was available there under the stated license on that date.

File history

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Date/Time	Dimensions	User	Comment
00:21, 24 November 2018	1,200 × 600 (2 KB)	Thespoondragon	new hammer and sickle per construction sheets
19:16, 27 October 2018	1,200 × 600 (894 bytes)	Thespoondragon	checked construction sheet again, you're right. optimized file with SVGOMG
00:27, 23 October 2018	1,200 × 600 (6 KB)	I am dies	Reverted to version as of 05:22, 2 October 2018 (UTC) Please wash your eyes with soap and check again. Emblem get the most accurate look comparing to previous versions, it can be used for printing real flag. Can you confirm that you have newest original physical instructions for drawing H&S and it's result is different from mine?
02:03, 13 October 2018	1,200 × 600 (1 KB)	Thespoondragon	Reverted to version as of 19:03, 8 July 2018 (UTC) Shape of the hammer and sickle is wrong/innaccurate
05:22, 2 October 2018	1,200 × 600 (6 KB)	I am dies	Redrawed Hammer and Sickle from scratch to make it pixel perfect but maximally similar to original at the same time.
19:03, 8 July 2018	1,200 × 600 (1 KB)	S.A. Julio (old)	reduce file size, valid SVG
01:47, 28 March 2018	1,200 × 600 (3 KB)	Ericmetro	Per construction sheet: https://i.redditmedia.com/g8es7LyPk6V7OvyKYQyJ-baz6QVRSIgqIgiTkc64p3w.jpg?w=576&s=f8f5d6f73bcb1b2b5ee995fb1ddcff96
01:33, 28 March 2018	1,200 × 600 (2 KB)	FreshCorp619	Reverted to version as of 20:12, 27 March 2018 (UTC) Source: https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/701026/russians-life-better-soviet-union-ussr-sixty-four-percent - Shape in the photo resembles the one. See talk.
00:09, 28 March 2018	1,200 × 600 (3 KB)	Loic26	Reverted to version as of 19:07, 27 March 2018 (UTC) Source ?
20:12, 27 March 2018	1,200 × 600 (2 KB)	FreshCorp619	Reverted to version as of 15:47, 27 March 2018 (UTC) This hammer and sickle is slightly updated.