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Flag of Georgia (country) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (634 words) |
 | A majority of Georgians, including the influential Catholicos-Patriarch of the Georgian Orthodox and Apostolic Church, supported the restoration of the flag and in 1999 the Georgian parliament passed a bill to change the flag. |
| The flag was adopted by the Georgian parliament on January 14, 2004. |
| During the Soviet period, Georgia adopted a number of versions of the red Soviet flag incorporating either the Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic's name, or a red hammer and sickle with a star in a blue sun in canton and blue bar in the upper part of flag (right). |
| Soviet Union: collapse of the soviet union, former soviet union, union of soviet socialist republic (4322 words) |
| The USSR was created and expanded as a union of Soviet republics formed within the territory of the Russian Empire abolished by the Russian Revolution of 1917 followed by the Russian Civil War of 1918-1920. |
| The Soviet Union is traditionally considered to be the successor of the Russian Empire. |
| The Soviet Union was established in December 1922 as the union of the Russian (colloquially known as Bolshevist Russia), Ukrainian, Belarusian, and Transcaucasian Soviet republics ruled by Bolshevik parties. |
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