National flag consisting of a red field with a crossed gold hammer and sickle in the upper hoist corner and beneath a gold-bordered red star. The flag’s width-to-length ratio is 1 to 2.In the early days of the Russian Revolution of 1917, the Bolsheviks
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The Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan in December 1979 to support the communist regime that had taken over. Another new constitution—adopted in 1987 and revised in 1990—permitted other parties to participate in government. The communist regime managed to hold power after the Soviet forces departed ...
This tension between the Soviet Union and its western rivals became known as the Cold War. To protect each other against the Soviets, 12 countries formed NATO in 1949. The original NATO members were Belgium, Canada, Denmark, France, Iceland, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal...
Soviet Union (Union of Soviet Socialist Republics; U.S.S.R.), former northern Eurasian empire (1917/22–1991) stretching from the Baltic and Black seas to the Pacific Ocean and, in its final years, consisting of 15 Soviet Socialist Republics. The capital
Vertically striped black-red-green national flag with a central coat of arms. Its width-to-length ratio is 1 to 2.Since the early 20th century, Afghanistan has had numerous national flags. In 1928 Amānullāh Khan, having just returned from a trip to Eur
Flag, a piece of cloth, bunting, or similar material displaying the insignia of a sovereign state, a community, an organization, an armed force, an office, or an individual. A flag is usually, but not always, oblong and is attached by one edge to a staff
as well as 1 each from the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic and the Belorussian Soviet Socialist Republic (in addition to the Soviet Union itself) and 5 from BritishCommonwealthcountries.Poland, which was not present at the conference, was permitted to become an original member of the UN. Se...
After six years of brutal Nazi occupation (with itslegacyof theHolocaustand the postwar mass expulsion of some three million Bohemian and Slovak [Carpathian] Germans), Czechoslovakia was reconstituted, this time without Ruthenia (Transcarpathian Ukraine), which was annexed by theSoviet Union. A commu...
Horizontally striped red-white-green national flag with a central gold crown. The flag’s width-to-length ratio is 1 to 2.After World War II the member republics of the Soviet Union altered their flags to bring in stripes of national colours. Tajikistan