This flag was adopted by the Estonian SSR on February 6, 1953. Large sized flag of Estonian SSR Flag taken from http://et. ... Large sized flag of Estonian SSR Flag taken from http://et. ... State motto: Kõigi maade proletaarlased, ühinege Official language According to the constition, all languages were equal. ... February 6 is the 37th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... 1953 is a common year starting on Thursday. ...
Prior to this, the flag was red with a gold hammer and sickle in the top-left corner. Above the hammer and sickle were the gold Latin characters ENSV (Eesti Nöukogude Sotsialistlik Vabariik) in a sans-serif font. Hammer and sickle on the Soviet flag, together with the Red Star The hammer and sickle is a symbol used to represent Communism and Communist political parties. ... The Latin alphabet, also called the Roman alphabet, is the most widely used alphabetic writing system in the world, the standard script of the English language and most of the languages of western and central Europe, and of those areas settled by Europeans. ...
See also: Flag of the Soviet Union, Flag of Estonia The first official flag of the Soviet Union was adopted in July of 1923. ... Flag ratio: 7:11 The national flag of Estonia features three equal horizontal bands of blue (top), black, and white. ...
It first came to prominence as the flag for the Estonian University Student Association at the University of Tartu (Estonian Tartu Ülikool, founded 1632) and was consecrated in the hall of the pastorate of Otepää on June 4, 1884.
During the German occupation 1941–1944 the flag was accepted as the ethnic flag of Estonians but not the national flag.
The flag remained hidden until the days of perestroika in the late 1980s when on February 24, 1989 the blue-fl-white flag was again flown from the Pikk Hermann tower in Tallinn.
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