VOTING POLL FLAG CHALLENGE 127

Best Menshevik Flag

  • ONE

    Votes: 5 21.7%
  • TWO

    Votes: 2 8.7%
  • THREE

    Votes: 3 13.0%
  • FOUR

    Votes: 3 13.0%
  • FIVE

    Votes: 10 43.5%

  • Total voters
    23
  • Poll closed .
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[FONT=&quot]The Challenge:

FLAG CHALLENGE 127: Of Mice and Mensheviks

In 1917, with the Mensheviks and the Bolsheviks splitting, many non-factional social democrats returning from Europe and America had to take sides. Some returned to the Mensheviks, some joined the Bolsheviks at once, but many like Trotsky joined with the non-factional, anti-war group, Mezhraintsy, which would eventually merge with the Bolsheviks in august of that year. A smaller number of influential social democrats which was associated with Maxim Gorky refused to join with either side.

The challenge is to create a flag for a Russian state based on a TL where the Mezhraintsy, plus the social democrats following Maxim Gorky, merges instead with the Mensheviks and the end result is that Bolshevism is made illegal.

Voting is on…


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My Submission for #Challenge127
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Glory to the Mother Russia!

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[FONT=&quot] Based on flag of the Democratic Republic of Georgia, most successful Menshevik state in OTL.[/FONT]
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Looks like we're getting quite a few entries right off the bat this time around!

It was quite difficult coming up with something that would both make sense and look interesting, and my lack of knowledge about the topic certainly didn't help.

From what I read, I wouldn't be surprised if an actual Menshevik Russia just kept the white-blue-red tricolor with a red star added in somewhere. While that would be fine for a TL about victorious Mensheviks, it's a bit too dull for the flag challenge. That being the case, I figured I'd do something similar but somewhat more fancy.

Menshevik Russia
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People's Republic of Russia
The People Front of All-Russia was, in later years, credited for both reining in its more radical elements while still managing to enhanced the people's freedom and quality of life by reforming rather then catastrophically destroying the institutions of tsarist Russia has some had proposed.
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THE RUSSIAN CONFEDERATION


After the final defeat of the Bolsheviks and the various ‘White’ Armies, the Socialist Republic of Russia was declared. Its first official flag was a large, central red star on a white background. During the Second Great War, there was widespread criticism of a flag that was mainly white and eventually a new flag was adopted as below. Upon adoption of the new constitution of 1963 the nation became simply ‘The Russian Confederation'.

 
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