Hello everybody. I am not new to the world of alternate history, but I am new to this particular site. Anyway, I have been having a nagging problem all day, and I think I would like to bring it up to discussion, more or less for fun, but also to see what others have in mind.
Anyway, I am the creator of a timeline called
New Union, in which the August Coup failed to even happen, and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics is successfully and peacefully transformed into the Union of Soviet Sovereign Republics. It is pretty much the Soviet Union as a democracy (more or less a socialist democracy under Gorbachev) with emphasis on republics rights and sovereignty. The USA-USSR relations are just as friendly as in OTL, but a sense of pro-West and pro-East does still exist politically. The reforms by Gorbachev would lead to grater moral in the Soviet Union, which allows the Chechen and Kosovo Wars to not even happen. Mongolia even decides to join the USSR in 2003. The USSR today has a good economy, strong population, and a bright future.
Well anyway, you can get the idea. But I wanted to bring to the discussion on what a potential flag for this new nation would be. I have search the internet (even in Russian) to see if there was ever a proposal for a flag, and I have since not found any. Based on the history of former empires (i.e., the UK, France, Turkey) and other former communist nations (i.e., Albania, Mongolia), I came up with the most likely flag that could be adopted for this new union.
Pretty much, it is the flag of the Soviet Union, minus the red star. This is in comparison to how the flags of Albania and Mongolia evolved, in which they simply removed the communist star, but enlarged their state symbol. In fact, this exact design was proposed in the State Duma of Russia in 1997 to replace the current Russian tricolor. Personally, I like the design, but I have seen other designs which have made this flag look quite bland.
There was also the question raised on the flags of the nine republics which would remain in the Soviet Union. the Ukraine and Azerbaijan had already adopted new flags prior to August 20 (the date the New Union Treaty was to be signed). But
from this thread, there were several very interesting ideas brought up as potential flags to be adopted. If the USSR would have remained, wouldn't the flags adopted in OTL be the same? How would have they been any different?
So for this discussion, what would be the most likely flags for the new USSR and its respective republics? This is more or less for fun, so please forgive me if I wrote this in the wrong thread.