Imo though even uk colonial flags are better than the Soviet republic ones. At least in British colonies/dominions there’s always the Union Jack in the corner in the same place, which gives them all a sense of continuity and relatedness that the hammer and sickle in random different places doesn’t
@@mmcworldbuilding5994 In the same place; as much, as the Union Jack, in the British Colonies’ flags. I can’t tell the difference, in position, without a really close side-by-side -comparison.
@@espada_i_daga yes, yes, without personality a person is ideal. But what’s the point of all people being the same, if individuality is what contributed to development under the USSR? you continue to limit yourself in the variety of information and you will definitely become what they describe as an ideal communist
Yes, they don’t know the concept of the word personality, most of them watch TV, limit themselves to the media of purely one opinion, cram myths about other countries, indulge in nonsense and think that they are all individual, the same cattle as they are raised everywhere under capitalism, after all, a slave-cattle is profitable
Fun Fact: The State Emblem of the Latvian SSR has a sun, and it was said to be rising over the sea, but the geography of Latvia in relation to the Baltic sea means the sun can only be see setting and not rising over the Baltic sea.
And I believe the Belarusian SSR flag is the only one whose variation is still in use to this day (but if Transnistria counts, the Moldavian SSR flag is still in use too)
it's really not either-or though. be related AND be distinct. the nordic flags are all similar, but the colours are distinct enough to be used in Eurovision.
@@yuvalne okay but that’s because you grew up and know them. If you had never seen the Nordic countries before would you be able to tell anything about them or their country based on their flags? I doubt it. They’re just the same flag with different colours. Which you could argue is exactly the same with the soviet flags
Meanwhile in Canada, our largest province (Ontario) has basically the same flag as another province (Manitoba), which is basically Canada's pre-1965 flag, which is the same red ensign used by almost everyone colonized by Britain. -.-
@@MatthewTheWanderer Australia, India, and New Zealand used to use Red Ensigns. Australia and New Zealand would change to the blue colour later. Also I'm pretty sure they meant everyone used an ensign not specifically a red one
@@acanadianchicken No, OP literally said "same red ensign used by almost everyone..." Very few still use the red ensign. I think maybe one or two of the remaining British possessions plus one or two of their former possessions still use a red ensign. The vast majority use blue.
Im sorry bro i can't tell them apart except for the ones that got the Fucking State Name slapped on the Flag (except for clear exceptions like Maryland, Texas, Those 4 square States)
@@danielmarkevic890 Who cares if you're in the Soviet Union you are in the Soviet Union also US state flags are barely ever used over the Stars and Stripes even less in the Soviet Union with the republic's flags against the red flag
I just happen to like them and have a small collection of them. Those stripes, while a little uncreative design wise, do indeed carry creative meaning that derives its inspiration from whatever Republic it represents, some examples include Turkmenistan and Latvia with water features. I also would not complain if they happened to improve them before 1991 but the flags from prior to those designs tended to be even worse
it's a bad point, and anyways it could've been expressed in a way that felt more consistent and intentional. for a totalitarian state, it's really disorganized.
@@bubbletea695 No, it was a bastion of freedom and democracy with gulags, organized genocide, mass famines, and constant food shortages It was so great, that’s why everyone wanted to leave in 1991, because it was just so great and free and prosperous
@@tylerclayton6081 that’s authoritarian, not totalitarian. And that was only after Stalin’s „reforms”, and these flags were created under Khrushchev, whose entire time in power was focused on undoing basically everything Stalin did.
Fun fact: back in the union, no one really cared about those flags since the “independence” of the republics was a pure formality. Some really could mix the Ukrainian and Kazakhstani flags up, despite learning about the symbols at the elementary, many remembered them at last only because had to pass the exams in “scientific communism” in high schools I recall once in the 90’s, I saw Ukrainian communists using a Tajik SSR’s flag (apparently forgotten and founded in some storage) as a substitute for the union’s at some meeting
Why would we need hard flag design? Imagine you are a student and your teacher says: kids, paint a flag of your country. Tri-color country students will draw it with ease. Imagine you will have to draw the US flag or UK
@@tar7983 The Estonian and Latvian people don’t feel that way. To them the flags are not so good. To the Baltic countries the Soviet flags represent years of oppression and attempted Russification. Those flags symbolize the dominance of Russia over them, it represents a time when Russia took away their independence and right to exist
Honestly, I think the hammer and sickle should have been used only for the federal flag. The constituent republics were each their own thing*, and their flags should have flaunted the insane diversity they ended up representing. *...if we ignore megalomaniacal shenanigans.
@@wargamerpro7209 I did consider that, but I believe that including the dominant red background is enough to connect them, perhaps with some gold trim if it can be managed.
I mean, unity is kinda the point. in my opinion they should have gone with hammer and sickle in center with a large yellow circle around it with unique designs everywhere else
The entire practice of 'national self determination' bolstered nationalism throughout the union tho. Surely, there was a rampant language&illiretacy problem and 'differences in conditions' between the ethnic regions, that, national borders were established in a temporary purpose. But then, had any progress been made to decompose those? No, in fact, we have seen its consequences in 1990. There should have been no ukrainian or russian SSR's, but only USSR with regional soviets which dictate language policy of the schools etc. But only in a way which leads to a common language, a proletarian sensation, to Zaum! I think the final blow to the internationalist spirit was abolition of third internationale & removal of 'The Internationale' from being the state anthem.
If you are familiar with Soviet things you would be forgiven for thinking Georgia's flag is a logo of some State enterprise that makes radios and vacuum cleaners
These are much better than earlier flags they had for the republics. Literally just the Soviet flag with slightly different text each time. Some did mix it up, mainly earlier on or by doing initials instead of the full name.
While it gets props for being a bit different, the overly complex embroidery of Belarus is something to be avoided in a flag design. It doesn't scale well and it's hard to produce without machines. There is a reason most countries use simple banded designs like the venerable tricolor formation
“if we make the flags too distinctive and easy to tell apart, that might make people realize they’re different from us, which will lead to the total collapse of our glorious union.” - someone in the kremlin, probably
Transnistria:HEY YOU DO YOU THINK I'M A JOKE TO YOU I HAVE A SOVIET FLAG THE OLD USSR FLAG the whole world:are you joking me kid theirs no communist country plus there's no country named transnistria Transnistria be like: .............
These Soviet republic flags were made in 1950s, when Belarus and Ukraine were admitted to the UN and they need (sort of) distinct flags. Before that, it’s just Soviet flag with text below.
No, completely wrong. 1. The hammer and sickle represents the cooperation and friendship between the industrial and agricultural workers, very similar to the ussr’s meaning. The “crown” is a mural crown which actually represents a form of civilisation, in this case a village (most likely), definitely not the bourgeois since they abolished the monarchy. Austria is a socialist and democratic country, so a sickle and hammer with their national animal is a fitting coat of arms.
In Putin’s dreams 😂. Those flags represent the dozens of millions killed in Soviet genocides and they’re a nightmare for every former USSR country not named Russia
@@tylerclayton6081nah, Putin wouldn't rebuild the Soviet Union. Modern Russian goverment is as scared of communism as Western governments are. But people would love to see it again. Also the "genocide" in USSR is western cold war propaganda, that is based on propaganda of Nazi Germany. In reality, there were no such thing
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There's gotta be a joke about Soviet flags being the same somewhere in there
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Without any personality and own minds
Literally like perfect sovien man
"Wow how unoriginal, I can't believe how similar they are to each other."
-United Kingdom Representative, sometime in the 50s, probably
Imo though even uk colonial flags are better than the Soviet republic ones. At least in British colonies/dominions there’s always the Union Jack in the corner in the same place, which gives them all a sense of continuity and relatedness that the hammer and sickle in random different places doesn’t
Not in the same place since the size and aspect ratio of the main flag is not standardized
it's not about similarity, it's the inconsistency. the commonwealth flags were at least consistent
@@mmcworldbuilding5994 In the same place; as much, as the Union Jack, in the British Colonies’ flags. I can’t tell the difference, in position, without a really close side-by-side -comparison.
Capitalists cannot tell which flag is which if WE cannot tell which flag is which
Bruh
Without any personality and own minds
Literally like perfect sovien man
@@espada_i_daga yes, yes, without personality a person is ideal. But what’s the point of all people being the same, if individuality is what contributed to development under the USSR? you continue to limit yourself in the variety of information and you will definitely become what they describe as an ideal communist
seeing "no personality" Argument from Westerners just makes me laugh. What personality you got?
Yes, they don’t know the concept of the word personality, most of them watch TV, limit themselves to the media of purely one opinion, cram myths about other countries, indulge in nonsense and think that they are all individual, the same cattle as they are raised everywhere under capitalism, after all, a slave-cattle is profitable
Fun Fact: The State Emblem of the Latvian SSR has a sun, and it was said to be rising over the sea, but the geography of Latvia in relation to the Baltic sea means the sun can only be see setting and not rising over the Baltic sea.
Theoretically you can see the sun rising over the Baltic sea if you are on the Courland Peninsula.
Said by whom tho
Curland trolls
Ventiš
@@mihailyantsen7598wikipedia moment (you do have a good point there though, just think it feels like wikipedia)
And I believe the Belarusian SSR flag is the only one whose variation is still in use to this day (but if Transnistria counts, the Moldavian SSR flag is still in use too)
only it doesn't have the hammer and sickle
@@SsNiPeR1 yes, and the national ornament is inverted
Unlike most of the others it's a genuinely awesome design
zmagars hate this fact so much it's sometimes hilarious to look at them.
@@lmnk zmagars gotta cope with true & best looking flag
Wait till he sees the British colonial flags😂
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Or most of my states
the usa has many different flags compared to the USSR @@USAUSAUSAUSAUSAUSAUSAUSAUSAUSAsir
@@noobwithsomecoffee8700 i am just saying over half of state flags are repetitive
@@USAUSAUSAUSAUSAUSAUSAUSAUSAUSA Ik but the US is more original
If you can confuse red-blue flag with red-blue-red then I have bad news for you
"the british empire has entered the chat*"
The dutch have enterd the chat (bringing all the 500 countrys that copyd them along)
@@user-yo5lr5jy2e at least a lot of those flags look good
I mean I think they follow the guideline of “be related or be distinct” pretty well even if they could have added a bit more
it's really not either-or though. be related AND be distinct. the nordic flags are all similar, but the colours are distinct enough to be used in Eurovision.
@@yuvalne okay but that’s because you grew up and know them. If you had never seen the Nordic countries before would you be able to tell anything about them or their country based on their flags? I doubt it. They’re just the same flag with different colours. Which you could argue is exactly the same with the soviet flags
@@Gallalad1 the thing is, I'm familiar with the Belarusian green and the Ukrainian light blue, yet these are still very hard to distinguish.
@@yuvalne Pretty easy. Belarus and Ukraine just have red in them and a star and sickle. What's the problem?
@@jaypolas4136 can you tell Ukraine and Kazakhstan apart reliably? how about at a distance? or when the wind isn't blowing?
yeah british colonies work the same way
The flag of the Georgian SSR technically doesn't even use yellow, when all other SSR flags do. Very strange.
Nobody :
Literally Australia and New Zealand :
Meanwhile in Canada, our largest province (Ontario) has basically the same flag as another province (Manitoba), which is basically Canada's pre-1965 flag, which is the same red ensign used by almost everyone colonized by Britain. -.-
Um, no, almost everyone colonized by Britain uses a blue ensign flag.
@@MatthewTheWanderer Australia, India, and New Zealand used to use Red Ensigns. Australia and New Zealand would change to the blue colour later. Also I'm pretty sure they meant everyone used an ensign not specifically a red one
@@acanadianchicken No, OP literally said "same red ensign used by almost everyone..." Very few still use the red ensign. I think maybe one or two of the remaining British possessions plus one or two of their former possessions still use a red ensign. The vast majority use blue.
bro this guy is so american bro cant tell the diffrance between a thick blue line and a think blue line
He can but its hard to remember
Also hes austrian
He's Austrian.
Kazakhstan red gap on the bottom: Pretend i didn't hear that
Belarus flag was that good that belarus use it without the hammer and sickle
"wHaT aBoUt ThE uS sTaTe FlAgS?"
Im sorry bro i can't tell them apart except for the ones that got the Fucking State Name slapped on the Flag (except for clear exceptions like Maryland, Texas, Those 4 square States)
yeah the states that just have a state seal and a color in the background suck there are a few good ones like colorado and alaska though
"They're all just seal on blue, can't belive they would make such garbage designs!!" - Alberta
It's not like America does any better with its state flags
But at least you can tell which flag is which 70 percent of the time
@@danielmarkevic890 Who cares if you're in the Soviet Union you are in the Soviet Union also US state flags are barely ever used over the Stars and Stripes even less in the Soviet Union with the republic's flags against the red flag
Texas deserves more than one star.
@@danielmarkevic890lmao no you can not.
@@danielmarkevic890 as a brazilian, no, you cant (if you can is because it has its name on it). But I cam actually tell wich soviet republic is
Soviet emblems tho
I just happen to like them and have a small collection of them. Those stripes, while a little uncreative design wise, do indeed carry creative meaning that derives its inspiration from whatever Republic it represents, some examples include Turkmenistan and Latvia with water features. I also would not complain if they happened to improve them before 1991 but the flags from prior to those designs tended to be even worse
Those flags give me headache by their biting color schemes.
Someone better petition the ussr to change this
The British Empire and their colonies left the chat
The point is the flags are not supposed be like the old imperial/nationalist flags which where seen as ways to be against the government.
🎉 finally someone told it
"Let them starve somewhere in the center" is very ironic considering the flag being talked about is the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic
If holodomr was a flag
Western propaganda.
@@Rebcap05 it’s true, not only Ukraine was starving in those years, the southwest of the RSFSR, the BSSR and the Kazakh SSR were also starving
@@user-bb9fk3xj1e Okay? The west has a monopoly on truth.
@@user-bb9fk3xj1eyep, ALL of the country starved, not only Bandera supporters.
The point he is missing is, that this is the point.
it's a bad point, and anyways it could've been expressed in a way that felt more consistent and intentional. for a totalitarian state, it's really disorganized.
@@ratronaldussr totalitarian??
@@bubbletea695 No, it was a bastion of freedom and democracy with gulags, organized genocide, mass famines, and constant food shortages
It was so great, that’s why everyone wanted to leave in 1991, because it was just so great and free and prosperous
@@tylerclayton6081 that’s authoritarian, not totalitarian. And that was only after Stalin’s „reforms”, and these flags were created under Khrushchev, whose entire time in power was focused on undoing basically everything Stalin did.
@@tylerclayton6081 you forgor to mention that NKVD ate ukrainian children with comically large spoons
Latvia looks like Kiribati lol
Now make a video about us state flags
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Why so jealous of the US. Nobody even mentioned the US 😂
NM has one of the coolest flags period
@@BENKYism Minnesota flag could be the top one id they kept tricolour
Fun fact: back in the union, no one really cared about those flags since the “independence” of the republics was a pure formality. Some really could mix the Ukrainian and Kazakhstani flags up, despite learning about the symbols at the elementary, many remembered them at last only because had to pass the exams in “scientific communism” in high schools
I recall once in the 90’s, I saw Ukrainian communists using a Tajik SSR’s flag (apparently forgotten and founded in some storage) as a substitute for the union’s at some meeting
Still better than US flags tho
A lot
The only normal are Texas and New Mexico and maybe Maryland
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California, Minnesota, Alabama, Florida.
@@kalash1167 California and Minnesota are bad, Alabama is ok but it is just st Patrick, Florida is Alabama with coat of arms. Maybe Utah also good
@@threepeater3127 Alaska is peak.
I actually like the standardisation
Why would we need hard flag design? Imagine you are a student and your teacher says: kids, paint a flag of your country. Tri-color country students will draw it with ease. Imagine you will have to draw the US flag or UK
Them being virtually indistinguishable is the point lol
I love them In my opinion
Tbh Estonia’s and Latvia’s soviet flahs are so good
Their new flags are way better.
georgian is the greatest
@@JmKrokY idk, Estonia is nice, but Latvia’s is just not pleasing
The flags of the occupied baltics are the most disgusting thing on this earth
@@tar7983 The Estonian and Latvian people don’t feel that way. To them the flags are not so good. To the Baltic countries the Soviet flags represent years of oppression and attempted Russification. Those flags symbolize the dominance of Russia over them, it represents a time when Russia took away their independence and right to exist
Honestly, I think the hammer and sickle should have been used only for the federal flag. The constituent republics were each their own thing*, and their flags should have flaunted the insane diversity they ended up representing.
*...if we ignore megalomaniacal shenanigans.
Hammer and sickle is the symbol of unity workers and peasants, so... no
But maybe more other symbol's, like on Belarus flag or Georgian
@@wargamerpro7209 I did consider that, but I believe that including the dominant red background is enough to connect them, perhaps with some gold trim if it can be managed.
Стало интересно как выглядел флаг Коми АССР. Весьма уныло. Просто синяя полоса сбоку.
British :
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No, good flags. Stalin approved
Still great flags because red is a great color
Georgia SSR flag was best one
I mean, unity is kinda the point. in my opinion they should have gone with hammer and sickle in center with a large yellow circle around it with unique designs everywhere else
Belarus basically still has the same flag
Fun fact, Modern Belarus still uses the Soviet Era flag Sans Sickle and Hammer
The Lativian SSR flag looks a lot like Kiribati's
The whole point is to avoid nationalism.
The entire practice of 'national self determination' bolstered nationalism throughout the union tho. Surely, there was a rampant language&illiretacy problem and 'differences in conditions' between the ethnic regions, that, national borders were established in a temporary purpose. But then, had any progress been made to decompose those? No, in fact, we have seen its consequences in 1990.
There should have been no ukrainian or russian SSR's, but only USSR with regional soviets which dictate language policy of the schools etc. But only in a way which leads to a common language, a proletarian sensation, to Zaum!
I think the final blow to the internationalist spirit was abolition of third internationale & removal of 'The Internationale' from being the state anthem.
@@pastille2585simplified version with easy answers 😂
Without any personality and own minds
Literally like perfect sovien man
@@pastille2585so, you want a Yugoslavian war but big?
If you are familiar with Soviet things you would be forgiven for thinking Georgia's flag is a logo of some State enterprise that makes radios and vacuum cleaners
"We are same-same, but diferent."
I’m not surprised, considering they can even get their ideology straight.
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Cyapitalist cyannot tell dijfference
I have some bad news
Russia is capitalist
Georgia on my mind..
Soviet republic flags look like some hoi4 mod
These are much better than earlier flags they had for the republics. Literally just the Soviet flag with slightly different text each time. Some did mix it up, mainly earlier on or by doing initials instead of the full name.
I like the wave design
While it gets props for being a bit different, the overly complex embroidery of Belarus is something to be avoided in a flag design. It doesn't scale well and it's hard to produce without machines. There is a reason most countries use simple banded designs like the venerable tricolor formation
You won't believe about how original they was in period 1918-1950
The DDR flag was pretty ok tho
True, but DDR wasn't a Soviet Republic
@@rybagoose yeah fair
Without any personality and own minds
Literally like perfect sovien man
Saying "letting it starve while somewhere in the middle" while talking about Soviet Ukraine's flag is just diabolical
I mean its the soviet Union. What'd you expect?
Our flag
British empire: am i a joke to you
Let's not speak how USA state flags are like
Why am I seeing the Georgian Soviet flag similar with Japan's notorious imperialist flag(Rising sun flag)?
Why Georgian flag looks like: A girl with bow and ribbon
“if we make the flags too distinctive and easy to tell apart, that might make people realize they’re different from us, which will lead to the total collapse of our glorious union.” - someone in the kremlin, probably
Lol, no
LORD KNOWS WHAT GEORGIAS GOT GOING ON THERE
Transnistria:HEY YOU DO YOU THINK I'M A JOKE TO YOU I HAVE A SOVIET FLAG THE OLD USSR FLAG
the whole world:are you joking me kid theirs no communist country plus there's no country named transnistria
Transnistria be like: .............
Fun fact: Transnistria is the only „country” that uses the Soviet union flag
I dont know where the problem is. I like them.
I'm not taking flag design from someone from a country with the flag equivalent of a sandwich.
Me: trying to learn the difference between China Korea and Japan
yo same
As a Chinese u should add Vietnam in since 4 of us are similar
I think they're simple and cool no need of many drawings on it to be a flag
These Soviet republic flags were made in 1950s, when Belarus and Ukraine were admitted to the UN and they need (sort of) distinct flags. Before that, it’s just Soviet flag with text below.
The flags existed before, though, but they were even more similar one to another, mainly only different by text label near the ☭
British colonial flags: Finally a worthy opponent, our battle will be legendary
I like to think that Belarus is a Soviet fanboy
The Estonian one is fucking sick I will not hear this slander
TH-cam recommends me THIS?I am complaining
L bozo
@@jimmyjohnson1870 Nuh un
Fear of georgia unlocked
The Ukraine SSSR flag's hammer & sickle placement will never not piss me off
Why is the fourth one a Bulgaria with ussr at the top?
U.S state flags:👀
No, completely wrong. 1. The hammer and sickle represents the cooperation and friendship between the industrial and agricultural workers, very similar to the ussr’s meaning. The “crown” is a mural crown which actually represents a form of civilisation, in this case a village (most likely), definitely not the bourgeois since they abolished the monarchy. Austria is a socialist and democratic country, so a sickle and hammer with their national animal is a fitting coat of arms.
Seems deliberate
Me living in belarus:
The Soviets put most of their work into their Coat of Arms, statues, housing, bus stops and music... Everything else kind of fell by the wayside.
Meanwhile half the us state flag look the same
But it ain't a pathetic excuse of a state calling itself a superpower while it occupies its neighbours only to collapse :)
Suckup, but yeah to be fair, US borders and flags are pretty terrible
I kinda like them
Soviet union: bye india bye guy's see you tomorrow
The next day: Soviet union SOVIETT UNIONN NOOOO
Last online : 32 year's ago
Hong Kong has the best flag.
They're trying their best.
I wish i could post images in the comments ive got some banger suggestions
Bottom left = CCCP Lithuania
Its hilarious that all of you are talking about American flags when the topic is soviet flags. We live in your head
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Commies deflect in any way they can and on every matter.
Chad North Korea
WE NEED THESE FLAGS BACK
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In Putin’s dreams 😂. Those flags represent the dozens of millions killed in Soviet genocides and they’re a nightmare for every former USSR country not named Russia
@@tylerclayton6081nah, Putin wouldn't rebuild the Soviet Union. Modern Russian goverment is as scared of communism as Western governments are. But people would love to see it again. Also the "genocide" in USSR is western cold war propaganda, that is based on propaganda of Nazi Germany. In reality, there were no such thing
Said by 5 Russians and Belarusians.
But 0 Georgians, Estonians, Latvians, Lithuanians, Ukrainians, Kazakhs, Uzbeks, Armenians, Azerbaijanis, Tajiks, Turkmens, and Moldovans.
no we don't lmao 😂😂
May they never return. True Democracy to the former soviet republics.
"let em starbe" while showing soviet ukraine is messed up 💀
You haven't seen the British colonial flags yet
They let them starve like their people.
Starving is pretty usual for communism
And africa under capitalism
Nor Capitalism nor communism will work if your government is trash@@realdragao6367
@@realdragao6367no no, that's not real capitalism
Can you drew it😂😂