At dusk on Christmas day, 1991, the iconic hammer-and-sickle flag of the erstwhile Soviet Union lowered for the last time over the Kremlin in Moscow. USSR had dissolved into Russia and fourteen ...
While not an independent national flag anymore, the flag of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics — the USSR flag, for short — featured a red background with a yellow hammer and sickle ...
A red banner symbolising the Soviet Union’s victory over Nazi Germany ... The banner, a replica of the Soviet flag raised by three Red Army soldiers on the Reichstag building in Berlin, on ...