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  2. A plain red flag with a golden hammer and sickle and a gold-bordered red star in its upper canton. The first official flag of the Soviet Union was adopted in December 1922 at the first congress of the Soviets' USSR. The red flag of the communist party was adopted as the national flag.

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    On December 20, 1922, the Communists created the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. Russia was one of its republics. The other republics were mostly regions of the former Russian Empire. They were home to various non-Russian groups. Lenin died in 1924. A few years later, a Communist Party leader named Joseph Stalincame to power. Stalin was one of...

    In 1939, just before World War II began, Germany and the Soviet Union secretly agreed not to attack each other. Germany then invaded Poland, which started the war. Germany and the Soviet Union divided Poland between them. The Soviet Union also took Latvia, Lithuania, and Estonia at this time and made them Soviet republics. In June 1941, however, Ge...

    Despite all the damage it had suffered, the Soviet Union was still the greatest power in Europe after World War II. While fighting the Germans, Soviet troops moved into many countries in eastern Europe. Between 1945 and 1948 the Soviets set up Communist governments in these countries. They controlled these governments. This activity worried many pe...

    In 1985 Mikhail Gorbachev came to power. Gorbachev wanted to build a stronger economy and a freer society. He made changes that made Soviet citizens want even more freedom. Beginning in 1987 people in some of the Soviet republics began to demand greater independence. In 1989 a series of almost completely peaceful revolutions began. The eastern Euro...

  3. Aug 9, 2024 · The Soviet Union (short for the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics or USSR) was a single-party Marxist – Leninist state. It existed for 69 years, from 1922 until 1991. It was the first country to declare itself socialist and build towards a communist society.

  4. The Soviet Union wanted to create governments in Eastern Europe that were friendly. Soviet soldiers helped put Communist dictatorships in power in Romania and Bulgaria when the war was still happening.

  5. OCLC 4957064. Flag of the Soviet Union facts. The first official flag of the Soviet Union was adopted in December 1922 at the first congress of the Soviets' USSR. The red flag of the communist party was adopted as the national flag.

  6. The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (U.S.S.R., or Soviet Union) was created on December 31, 1922. The Soviet constitution mandated the national flag’s design, and that flag, with minor modifications, was effective from January 31, 1924, to the formal dissolution of the Soviet Union on December 31, 1991 (although the Russian flag replaced ...

  7. The flag of the Soviet Union was the official national flag of the state from 1923 to 1991. It was inspired by the struggles of the common man during the brutal Russian Revolution of 1917. Today, internationally, it is considered as the symbol of communism.

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