Weekly Flag Challenge: Discussion & Entries

UrbanNight

Flag Challenge #263: The Rus, but which Rus?

Inspired by a recent resurgence of interest in the flag of the Novgorod Republic, your challenge, should you choose to accept it, is:

Design a flag for a Rus' or East Slavic state that is NOT a successor state of the Grand Duchy of Moscow, Tsardom of Muscovy, Russian Empire, Soviet Union, or Russian Federation, but can be/have been a break-away state from any of these.

Submissions Close: 23:59 GMT 14th March

Please remember to review the RULES, especially concerning flag size. For an image in a single-flag entry, the shortest side must be 600 pixels or less, and the longest side must be 1200 pixels or less.
 

Kruglyasheo

Siberia-Ural
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The success of Nikolai Yevgenyevich Markov's plot to save the House of Romanov marked a turning point in the Russian Civil War. Markov, an Austrophile Black Hundredist and the former head of a modest faction of 18 people in the State Duma, instantly became the leader of the entire White Movement. However, this did not help drive the Bolsheviks out of the densely populated European part of Russia, so the border between the RSFSR and Siberia ran approximately along the Ural Mountains.​
 
Born in the USSA

Born in the USSA

Red Ruthenia

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The Peasants', Workers' and Insurgents' Free State (more commonly known as Red Ruthenia) is an only partially recognized state in Eastern Europe occupying the territory of the now defunct Ukrainian Hetmanate. Born out of the tumult of the Russian Civil War, the first iteration of the Free State was formed under the aegis of Nestor Makhno and his Revolutionary Insurgent Army. Purely anarchist at this stage, the Free State would find itself caught in a vice between the Hetmanate and Deniken's South Russian Government, both of which claimed the area. The saving grace for the Free State would come in the form of a wave of Socialist Revolutionary Party loyalists fleeing west in the wake of the breakdown of the alliance between the SRs and the Bolsheviks. United by a shared distaste for the Bolsheviks and the White forces both, the Revolutionary Insurgent Army and the SR Combat Organization would join forces to secure the boundaries of the Free State in a campaign that would see the Hetmanate dissolved and the South Russian Government driven to Crimea (where it remains to this day). Following the end of the conflict the Free State would steadfastly maintain its independence from the USSR, combining anarchism and agrarian socialism to great effect internally while maintaining a well armed and well trained populace to better fight off attempts at conquest by its neighbors. The central executive organ of the Free State is the Regional Congress of Peasants, Workers and Insurgents acting in concert with local legislative assemblies. Though the chair of the body was originally a purely honorary role under Makhno, Savinkov's time as Ataman would see the gradual expansion of the authority of the position. The Free State military consists of the Revolutionary Military Soviet acting in concert with a standardized network of local militias, while the Combat Organization has been nationalized as a paramilitary force. The flag of the Free State modifies the sun symbol of the Socialist Revolutionaries into a sunflower by exchanging the positions of the red and gold portions while pairing the party's shade of red with anarchist black and the hammer and sickle used during the first iteration of the Free State.
 
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I had an idea where the Soviets just stayed put in Dalian in 1945, got it included in the Treaty of San Francisco and pulled a Kaliningrad... and eventually it became a Chinese SAR in the 90s. But I'm too busy to make it make sense and draw the flag.
 
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UrbanNight

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I had an idea where the Soviets just stayed put in Dalian in 1945, got it included in the Treaty of San Francisco and pulled a Kaliningrad... and eventually it became a Chinese SAR in the 90s. But I'm too busy to make it make sense and draw the flag.
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That's unfortunate. It sounds like a really interesting idea.
 
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UrbanNight said:
That's unfortunate. It sounds like a really interesting idea.
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Okay, I banged something out quickly.

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Dalian Special Administrative Region
中華人民共和國大连市特別行政區
Специальный административный район Дальний

>be Stalin
>have brilliant idea
>occupy Dalian in 1945 after Japan surrenders
>write it in Treaty of San Francisco so we never have to leave
>after all, it was originally Russian city
>pull a Kaliningrad and expel Japanese and Chinese "collaborators"
>replace with ethnic Russians to ensure loyalty
>Dalniy ASSR becomes massive Soviet naval base and warm water port
>use as base to support CCP to win Chinese Civil War
>use as base to support DPRK to win Korean Unification War
>everyone pats me on the back for clever strategic decision
>Chinese workers start to outnumber Russians
>China and Korea write Soviet support out of official history
>other Communist countries call me imperialist hypocrite and side with China
>asian countries boycott Moscow Olympics
>ethnic riots every month between Chinese and Russians
>other separatists getting inspiration
>have to give to China under international pressure
>at least my historical legacy will live on
>China renames Stalin Road to Mao Zedong Road out of spite

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(IOTL, Dalian was originally founded as one of China's foreign concessions to Russia, called Dalniy ("far away"). It was later lost to the Japanese in the Russo-Japanese War. After the surrender of Japan, the Soviets occupied it again from 1945 to 1955, naming a major road after Stalin. The POD is that they decide not to leave.)
 
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Flag Challenge #264: Virgin vs. Chad
Inspired by the popular meme, design TWO alternate history flags for a place; one must be a wimpy/boring/normal version of the place (the "Virgin" version) and the other must be an audacious/impressive/absurd version of the SAME place (the "Chad" version).

Requirements:
  • The title of the entry must be in the format "The Virgin [name of wimpy version] vs. The Chad [name of audacious version]"
  • The write-up must be two bullet point lists, one for each version.
  • You can interpret "wimpy", "boring", "normal", "audacious", "impressive" and "absurd" any way you want. You can also be ironic about it.
Submissions Close: 06:00 GMT 29th March

Please remember to review the RULES, especially concerning flag size. For each image in a multiple-flag entry, the shortest side must be 400 pixels or less, and the longest side must be 600 pixels or less.
 
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Born in the USSA

Born in the USSA

Transparent Blue said:
Flag Challenge #264: Virgin vs. Chad
Inspired by the popular meme, design TWO alternate history flags for a place; one must be a wimpy/boring/normal version of the place (the "Virgin" version) and the other must be an audacious/impressive/absurd version of the SAME place (the "Chad" version).

Requirements:
  • The title of the entry must be in the format "The Virgin [name of wimpy version] vs. The Chad [name of audacious version]"
  • The write-up must be two bullet point lists, one for each version.
  • You can interpret "wimpy", "boring", "normal", "audacious", "impressive" and "absurd" any way you want. You can also be ironic about it.
Submissions Close: 06:00 GMT 29th March

Please remember to review the RULES, especially concerning flag size. For an image in a single-flag entry, the shortest side must be 600 pixels or less, and the longest side must be 1200 pixels or less.
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Just a heads up might want to revise the size requirements, pretty sure they're different for multi-flag entries
 

Kruglyasheo

The Virgin Lunar outpost vs. The Chad British Moon Territory

The Virgin Lunar outpost
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>Located on the near side of the Moon, because it was considered too risky to build on the far side
>Permanent population: zero, only semi-permanent presence of people
>The flag doesn't even have an official status
>1969? More like 2031 and still partly under construction
>Is a multinational project involving several participating space agencies

The Chad British Moon Territory
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>Located on the near side of the Moon, so the Earth never sets over the British Empire
>Permanent population: a huge number of gigachad tardigrades, which were not even bred there on purpose
>The flag is the only flag of any British dependency to have ever used the Royal Aerospace Force Ensign
>Has a motto in the language that makes everything cooler
>Single-handedly colonized by the mighty British Empire​
 
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Born in the USSA

The virgin Cuban Republic

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>Flag has zero swag, has no ideological meaning
>Literally barely any different than the flag of Puerto Rico
>Blue triangle, wtf? Should've at least been gold
>Too big anyway, looks like razor sharp garbage
>Weak junior partner to revisionist gangster state
>Under strong man family rule
>Gave up nuclear weapons
>Gets blockaded regardless
>Has no diplomatic relations with based dolphins and greys
>Why even bother with a star, they'll never reach them

VS.

The chad Revolutionary Galactic Republic of Cuba

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>Flag is nothing but swag, conveys ideological commitments and cherished alliances
>Jagged Cross of Burgundy radiates pure power
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>Leads Fourth International by example, doesn't lord it over other members
>Singlehandedly revitalized based Trotskyism
>Practices collective leadership, all true comrades are Posadas
>Threatened nuclear war to retain weapons, would've won either way
>Free to trade with all nations, America and USSR can only seethe
>Maintains diplomatic relations with sea and space Communists
>SPAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAACE​
 
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