Flag of the Estonian Soviet Socialist Republic


The flag of the Estonian Soviet Socialist Republic flag shows a yellow hammer and sickle and outlined star on a red field above a band of water waves near the bottom, and was adopted by the Estonian SSR on February 6, 1953.
The description of the flag is described from the Supreme Soviet of the Estonian SSR:

History

From 1940, the flag was red with a gold hammer and sickle in the top-left corner. Above the hammer and sickle were the gold Latin characters ENSV in a sans-serif font. The flag was restored again in 1944 after the re-capture of Estonia from Nazi Germany.
On February 6, 1953, the final version of the Estonian SSR flag was adopted. Though similar to the flag of the Soviet Union, it has the six spiky blue wavy stripes with the white stripe on the bottom. Neither the Constitution of the Estonian SSR, nor in the statute of the national flag of the Estonian SSR mentioned the shade of blue wavy stripes on the flag. Soviet vexillologist V. N. Streltsov in Odessa described it as "electric blue".
During that period, many of the Estonian diaspora continued to use the blue-black-white flag including the government in-exile over the years during occupation.
The Soviet flag of Estonia was gradually discarded during the perestroika period between 1988 and 1989. Beginning in 1990, the flag was reverted to the tricolor flag used in 1918, which remained as the flag after the restoration of independence only a year later. This was defined on May 10, 1990 when the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the Republic of Estonia adopted a resolution "On the use of the national flag as a national symbol of the restoration of independence of the Republic of Estonia", which regulated the use of the tricolor flag.