File:Flag of the Estonian Soviet Socialist Republic (1953–1990).svg

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Description

Eesti: Eesti NSV lipp

Русский: Флаг Эстонской ССР

العربية: علم دولة إستونيا السوفيتية

مصرى: ده علم كيان استونيا السوفييتى

Brezhoneg: Banniel Republik Sokialour Soviedel Estonia

English: Flag of the Estonian Soviet Socialist Republic

Français : Drapeau de la République socialiste soviétique d'Estonie

Date

2005 (SVG file)

Source

Own work based on publicly-available information.

Author

First-uploaded SVG file versions authored by Urmas, Nokka

Permission
(Reusing this file)

Legal disclaimer
This image contains a symbol prohibited by law in some nations, owing to it being a representation of communism, socialism, or a similar governmental structure; or of an associated political party/organization:

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.
Lithuania's Constitutional Court confirms Article 188¹⁸ of the Code of Administrative Offences. Collection, antiquarian trade and educational activities are exempt from the ban.
South Korea's National Security Act (prohibited for symbols or emblems related to North Korea)
Ukraine's Verkhovna Rada (article 436-1 of the Criminal code of Ukraine)

Imagery covered may include the hammer and sickle^en, red star, emblems/insignias, flags or images of leaders.

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The use of these insignias may be prohibited by law in the Czech Republic, Germany, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, Poland, Ukraine and other countries, depending on context.

Other versions

Derivative works of this file: Flag map of Estonia SSR (1953-1990).svg

Licensing

According to the Republic of Estonia Copyright Act (passed on November 11, 1992; consolidated text May 2006):

§ 5. Results of intellectual activities to which this Act does not apply

1) ideas, images, notions, theories, processes, systems, methods, concepts, principles, discoveries, inventions, and other results of intellectual activities which are described, explained or expressed in any other manner in a work;
2) works of folklore;
3) legislation and administrative documents (acts, decrees, regulations, statutes, instructions, directives) and official translations thereof;
4) court decisions and official translations thereof;
5) official symbols of the state and insignia of organisations (flags, coats of arms, orders, medals, badges, etc.);
6) news of the day;
7) facts and data;
8) ideas and principles which underlie any element of a computer program, including those which underlie its user interfaces.

Hence it is assumed that this image has been released into the public domain. However, in some instances the use of this image might be regulated by other laws.

As per legal code construction sheet: File:Flag the USSR schema Sbornik zakonov 1938-1956.svg

Note: Estonia is the legal successor of the Estonian SSR; therefore, this license tag is also applicable to official symbols and formal documents of the Estonian SSR.

I, the copyright holder of this work, release this work into the public domain. This applies worldwide.
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File history

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	Date/Time	Dimensions	User	Comment
current	18:04, 19 November 2023	1,200 × 600 (6 KB)	Great Brightstar	Some structural changes
	12:58, 19 November 2023	1,200 × 600 (7 KB)	Great Brightstar	Improve white stripes, inspired by https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nLAD1MRBi74
	19:14, 19 December 2018	1,200 × 600 (4 KB)	Thespoondragon	Reverted to version as of 03:11, 17 December 2018 (UTC) Current consensus on File_talk:Flag_of_the_Soviet_Union.svg is in favor of the 1 December hammer and sickle
	03:33, 17 December 2018	800 × 400 (5 KB)	Pedro8790	Reverted to version as of 21:23, 16 December 2018 (UTC)
	03:11, 17 December 2018	1,200 × 600 (4 KB)	Thespoondragon	Reverted to version as of 23:20, 1 December 2018 (UTC) File_talk:Flag_of_the_Soviet_Union.svg
	21:23, 16 December 2018	800 × 400 (5 KB)	Pedro8790	Reverted to version as of 19:09, 25 November 2018 (UTC)
	23:20, 1 December 2018	1,200 × 600 (4 KB)	Thespoondragon	per construction sheets, see https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File_talk:Flag_of_the_Soviet_Union.svg
	19:09, 25 November 2018	800 × 400 (5 KB)	Mundopopular	Reverted to version as of 17:49, 25 November 2018 (UTC) Edit has been reverted to original version. Take to talk page, no edit wars.
	18:25, 25 November 2018	1,200 × 600 (11 KB)	Thespoondragon	Reverted to version as of 01:20, 25 November 2018 (UTC) File:Construction_sheet_of_the_flag_of_the_Soviet_Union.png
	17:49, 25 November 2018	800 × 400 (5 KB)	Mundopopular	Reverted to version as of 03:39, 28 March 2018 (UTC) As per legal code construction sheet: File:Flag the USSR schema Sbornik zakonov 1938-1956.svg