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Red hammer and sickle with star in a blue sun in canton,
blue bar in upper part of flag. Adopted 11 April 1951
Željko Heimer
Specs.: stripes and canton unknown!; hammer-and-sickle placement and size
unknown! Is the star really solid red, not fimbriated?
António Martins, 19 Jun 2001
Official documents do not give any explanation of the symbolic of
the colours of the new flags. However, the history of the republics,
their geographical position and images of coats of arms allows to
explain with sufficient authority the symbolic of the colours of
state flags of federal republics. »(…)«
On the flag of Gruzian SSR dove-blue horizontal stripe represents
the Black Sea and the dove-blue sun in square canton — unclouded sky
of sunny Georgia.
Željko Heimer, 1996, translating from
[iva71]
There is no documentation to sustain this statement: The certitude
with which those conjectures were put forth raise all sorts of “red
flags” with me…
Ned Smith, 15 Jul 2005
 image by Željko Heimer and António Martins, 11 Oct 2006 |
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No hammer, sickle and star on the
reverse side
[generic prescription for all soviet flags].
Mark Sensen, 25 May 1997
How did the Georgian SSR flag reverse look like?…
António Martins, 28 Nov 2002
Officially reverse looked like obverse without star and hammer-sickle.
But in fact I never saw these flags without star, hammer-sickle.
Real flags (all 15) usually were either with
reverse analogous to obverse (but with star and
hammer-and-sickle near the hoist) or with reverse =
mirrored obverse.
Victor Lomantsov, 30 Nov 2002
If the hammer and sickle were not present on this flag, the sun will be
just blue.
Zach Harden, 29 Nov 2002
 image by Željko Heimer and António Martins, 11 Oct 2006 |
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Real flags (all 15) usually were either with
reverse analogous to obverse (but with star and
hammer-and-sickle near the hoist) or with reverse = mirrored obverse.
Victor Lomantsov, 30 Nov 2002
 image by Željko Heimer and António Martins, 11 Oct 2006 |
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The Georgia SSR flag that I own has the hammer and sickle, which
is red, on both sides.
Zach Harden, 29 Nov 2002
Real flags (all 15) usually were either with
reverse analogous to obverse (but with star and hammer-and-sickle near the
hoist) or with reverse = mirrored obverse.
Victor Lomantsov, 30 Nov 2002
This kind of error was perhaps usual, as the stripe was simply a blue
cloth while the canton was most of the times printed with blue paint on red
cloth, and shades might not always coincide.
António Martins, 06 Sep 2003
In this
“soviet”
site the Georgian SSR flag is shown with two different shades of blue
— both argueable light, but the stripe slightly darker than the canton.
António Martins, 29 Nov 2002
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The emblem of the SSR was introduced 28 February 1922 (according to
Hesmer [hes92]) and replaced by the
[1990-2004] one on 11 December 1990. The purplish
colour in the SSR emblem referred to the historical
colour that can also be found in the [1990-2004] emblem and
national flag. The central symbol in the
SSR emblem (Mt. Elbrus) can also be found in the current arms.
Marcus Schmöger, 16 Sep 2001
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