Flag of Schleswig-Holstein flag on 18 January 1957. The plain tricolour is the state's civil flag. Government authorities use the state flag ("Landesdienstflagge"), where the flag is defaced by the state coat of arms. The tricolour was previously used for the Prussian province of Schleswig-Holstein (1868-1946). It is almost identical to the flags of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia, Serbia and Montenegro (FR Yugoslavia), as well as the flag of the Netherlands inverted. Flag of Schleswig-Holstein The flag of Schleswig-Holstein is a horizontal tricolour of blue, white, and red. Schleswig-Holstein is one of the 16 states of Germany, comprising most of the historical duchy
Flag of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic 1991, the Constitution of the RSFSR was amended to adopt the white-azure-scarlet flag as the official national flag. A proposal for the state flag of the RSFSR was created by Mikhail Rodionov. It consisted of a traditional tricolour flag and a hammer and a sickle in the middle of the flag. Because of his proposal, he was accused of nationalism in 1950, at the Leningrad affair case. The banner of the republic was a 1:1 ratio red flag with gold fringe, commonly used in ceremonies. The banner was also used on the first inauguration of Boris Yeltsin as President of