Banner o the Soviet Union

The banner o the Soviet Union consistit o a plain red flag, wi a cross-peen hammer crossed wi a sickle (the hammer an sickle) an a red starn in the upper canton. The hammer an sickle seembolised the naition's wirkers an peasants while the reid starn representit the rule o the Communist Pairty.

The first flag wi the reid starn, hammer an sickle wis adoptit on November 12, 1923. In 1955, a statute on the flag wis adoptit which resultit in a chynge o the haimer's haundle lenth andthe shape o the sickle. A final modification tae the flag wis adoptit in 1980 in which the colour wis brichtened tae licht reid. The flag continued tae be a naitional flag till the collapse o the Soviet Union.