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According to Lux-Wurm [lux01], between
April 1920 and 1921, the Soviet Republic of Azerbaijan used a red flag with
a yellow crescent and star in canton.
Ivan Sache, 21 Jun 2003
Lux-Wurm [lux01] shows for the
1921-1927 period a red flag with the yellow Cyrillic letters "ACCP" placed
in a green canton, of area one third of the total flag area.
Lux-Wurm says that that flag was introduced following political changes
imposed by Moscow. In 1921, the Communist Party of Azerbaijan was accusated
of “nationalist deviation” and Moscow appointed Sergei Kirov as
the new First Secretary of the Communist Party of Azerbaijan. (This is the
very same Sergei Mironovitch Kostrikov, a.k.a. Kirov (1886-1934), who was
Stalin’s heir apparent until his assassination on 1 December 1934,
which was the starting act of the big purges.)
Ivan Sache, 21 Jun 2003
Red with in the upper hoist yellow Cyrillic initials (ASSR) in
sans-serif.
Mark Sensen, 17 Apr 1996
After the three republics (Armenia,
Azerbaidjan, and Georgia) had been
conquered by the Red Army, a Transcaucasian Socialist
Federal Soviet Republic was formed in 1922, becoming a Union Republic of
the USSR in the same year. In 1936 this republic was abolished and Armenia,
Azerbaidjan, and Georgia were established as Union Republics.
Jarig Bakker, 26 Mar 1999,
quoting
Everyman’s Concise Encyclopaedia of Russia,
S. V. Utechin, 1961
The next paragraph [after these two]
in Lux-Wurm [lux01] is very weird. The author
says that on the flag imposed in 1927, a hammer and sickle were placed above
the crescent and star. Lux-Wurm says it was the result of the campaign against
pan-Turkism. …but we know that Azerbiajan
was included from 1922 to 1936 in the Transcaucasian
Socialist Federal Republic, with no flag matching that description).
Ivan Sache, 21 Jun 2003
[Flag of 1937:] Red with in the upper hoist yellow Latin initials
("AzSSR") in serif. Yellow hammer and sickle above.
Mark Sensen, 25 May 1996
[Flag of the 1940’s:] Red with in the upper hoist yellow Cyrillic
initials (AzSSR) in serif. Yellow hammer and sickle above.
Mark Sensen, 02 Jun 1996
Lux-Wurm [lux01] says that the 1937
flag has only the hammer and sickle, surmonted with a red star, above
the Cyrillic initials of the name of the Republic.
Ivan Sache, 21 Jun 2003
A new flag
was adopted in 7 October 1952.
Željko Heimer, 17 Apr 1996
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