Some more Red Army Flags. The flags with the yellow writing use the first official
RSFSR (РСФСР) symbols designed in 1918 by Sergei Vasilyevich Chekhonin. The white letters in a cross form are from an alternative and slightly earlier pattern.
See this link for the development of the Red State flag and this one for more information on Red Army symbols.
The first slogan from the left reads "Ни шагу назад", "Not a step back" and is another
from the 1st Reserve Communist regiment. The second says "Советскую власть тогда возьмут, когда
через наши трупы пройдут!", "Then they will take Soviet power when they
pass through our corpses!" or perhaps "They will take Soviet power over
our dead bodies" is a better translation of the meaning. This slogan
was carried by the Mountain Eagles of Tarbagatai, a Red partisan unit
that operated in Northern Semirech (Kazakhstan), fighting the Whites of
the
Annenkov division. The last has the words "В защиту
свободы готовы мы жертвовать собой", "In defense of freedom, we are
ready to sacrifice ourselves" and is from the Pskov regional committee.
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