File:Flag of the Soviet Union (vertical).svg

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Description

English: The correct vertical display of the en:Flag of the Soviet Union.

Date

15 August 1980

Source

Derivative work of File:Flag of the Soviet Union.svg

Author

The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, vectorised by Sammimack

Permission
(Reusing this file)

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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.
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Ukraine's Verkhovna Rada (article 436-1 of the Criminal code of Ukraine)

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File history

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	Date/Time	Dimensions	User	Comment
current	21:51, 9 December 2018	600 × 1,200 (3 KB)	Thespoondragon	same hammer and sickle image as horiz flag
	21:50, 6 December 2018	600 × 1,200 (9 KB)	HugeMackerel	Reverted to version as of 18:18, 25 November 2018 (UTC) Since change to hammer and sickle has been accepted per talk page of the horizontal version
	19:02, 25 November 2018	2,126 × 4,252 (3 KB)	Mundopopular	Reverted to version as of 17:43, 25 November 2018 (UTC) Edit has been reverted to original version. Take to talk page, no edit wars.
	18:18, 25 November 2018	600 × 1,200 (9 KB)	Thespoondragon	Reverted to version as of 05:53, 25 November 2018 (UTC) for hammer and sickle, see File:Construction_sheet_of_the_flag_of_the_Soviet_Union.png
	17:43, 25 November 2018	2,126 × 4,252 (3 KB)	Mundopopular	Reverted to version as of 03:37, 28 March 2018 (UTC) As per legal code construction sheet: File:Flag the USSR schema Sbornik zakonov 1938-1956.svg
	05:53, 25 November 2018	600 × 1,200 (9 KB)	Thespoondragon	hammer and sickle revamp
	19:12, 27 October 2018	600 × 1,200 (894 bytes)	Thespoondragon	New hammer and sickle file
	03:37, 28 March 2018	2,126 × 4,252 (3 KB)	FreshCorp619	Reverted to version as of 10:51, 5 December 2017 (UTC)
	15:46, 27 March 2018	1,701 × 3,402 (3 KB)	FreshCorp619	Updated hammer and sickle + Color
	10:51, 5 December 2017	2,126 × 4,252 (3 KB)	Sammimack	{{Information \|Description ={{en\|1=The correct vertical display of the en:Flag of the Soviet Union.}} \|Source =Derivative work of File:Flag of the Soviet Union.svg \|Author =The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, vectorised...