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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
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.

العربية ∙ беларуская ∙ беларуская (тарашкевіца) ∙ беларуская (тарашкевіца) ∙ български ∙ čeština ∙ dansk ∙ Deutsch ∙ English ∙ Esperanto ∙ español ∙ euskara ∙ suomi ∙ français ∙ Gàidhlig ∙ galego ∙ magyar ∙ Bahasa Indonesia ∙ italiano ∙ 日本語 ∙ қазақша ∙ 한국어 ∙ македонски ∙ norsk bokmål ∙ Nederlands ∙ norsk ∙ polski ∙ português ∙ română ∙ русский ∙ sicilianu ∙ slovenščina ∙ српски / srpski ∙ svenska ∙ ไทย ∙ Türkçe ∙ українська ∙ Tiếng Việt ∙ 中文 ∙ 中文（简体） ∙ 中文（繁體） ∙ +/−

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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.

Description

Беларуская: Сцяг Беларускай ССР, 1951-1991

Беларуская (тарашкевіца): Сьцяг Беларускай ССР, 1951-1991

Русский: Флаг Беларусской Советской Социалистической Республики, 1951-1991 г.г.

Date

1951

Source

Own work See here.

Author

Zscout370, reworked by Pianist

Permission
(Reusing this file)

This work is not an object of copyright according to the Law of the Belarus No. 370-XIII of May 16, 1996 on Copyright and Neighbouring Rights.

Article 8. Works that are not Objects of Copyright

Shall not be objects of copyright:
- formal documents (laws, judgements, other texts of legal, administrative and judicial nature), and also their official translations;
- state symbols and signs (flag, coat of arms, anthem, awards, banknotes and other signs^[1]);
- works of folk arts, authors of which are not known.
Copyright does not cover ideas, processes, systems, methods of operation, concepts, principles, discoveries or simply information as such, even if they are expressed, reflected, explained or embodied in the work.

Full text of the Law: in Russian, in English.

↑ Postage stamps are state signs according to the Article 1 of the Law of the Republic of Belarus No. 258-З of December 15, 2003 on Mail Service (ru) почтовая марка – государственный знак почтовой оплаты, отпечатанный на бумаге и имеющий художественное изображение, а также надписи «БЕЛАРУСЬ», «BELARUS», год выпуска (арабскими цифрами) и номинальную стоимость (арабскими цифрами). Допускается литерное обозначение номинальной стоимости почтовой марки;

Comment – According to interstate and international compacts the Republic of Belarus is the legal successor of the Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic, therefore this license tag is also applicable to official symbols and formal documents of the Byelorussian SSR.

Warning – This license tag cannot be applied to proposed official symbols and drafts of the formal documents, which can be copyrighted.

беларуская ∙ беларуская (тарашкевіца) ∙ English ∙ 日本語 ∙ македонски ∙ русский ∙ українська ∙ 简体中文 ∙ 繁體中文 ∙ +/−

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	Date/Time	Dimensions	User	Comment
current	11:05, 2 May 2023	1,200 × 600 (6 KB)	NorthTension	Reverted to version as of 19:14, 19 December 2018 (UTC) bruh 💀
	23:24, 1 May 2023	900 × 450 (5 KB)	ItalianCroatianMapping	Reverted to version as of 03:34, 17 December 2018 (UTC) Hey Thespoondragon, Go kill yourself, this flag is better than 2018 version
	19:14, 19 December 2018	1,200 × 600 (6 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
	03:34, 17 December 2018	900 × 450 (5 KB)	Pedro8790	Reverted to version as of 21:20, 16 December 2018 (UTC)
	03:11, 17 December 2018	1,200 × 600 (6 KB)	Thespoondragon	Reverted to version as of 23:23, 1 December 2018 (UTC) File_talk:Flag_of_the_Soviet_Union.svg
	21:20, 16 December 2018	900 × 450 (5 KB)	Pedro8790	Reverted to version as of 19:04, 25 November 2018 (UTC)
	23:23, 1 December 2018	1,200 × 600 (6 KB)	Thespoondragon	per construction sheets, see https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File_talk:Flag_of_the_Soviet_Union.svg
	19:04, 25 November 2018	900 × 450 (5 KB)	Mundopopular	Reverted to version as of 17:44, 25 November 2018 (UTC) Edit has been reverted to original version. Take to talk page, no edit wars.
	18:11, 25 November 2018	1,200 × 600 (12 KB)	Thespoondragon	Reverted to version as of 06:37, 25 November 2018 (UTC) As per legal code construction sheet: File:Construction_sheet_of_the_flag_of_the_Soviet_Union.png
	17:44, 25 November 2018	900 × 450 (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