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Military units, institutions and organizations (of the Soviet Army, Soviet Navy, MVD Internal Troops, etc.) awarded with the Order of the Red Banner are referred to with the honorific title "of the Red Banner" (Краснознамённый (krasnoznamyonny), e.g. The Red Banner Baltic Fleet or "The Twice Red Banner Alexandrov Soviet Army Choir").
Civilian establishments awarded the Order of the Red Banner of Labour are also sometimes addressed with the "Red-Banner" honorific.
Transferable Red Banner
The Transferable Red Banner (Template:Lang-ru) was an award for collectives, winners in socialist competitions at various Soviet work places. The term "transferable" means that for a given kind of competition at a given establishment (enterprise, school, institute, clinic, etc.) or category of establishments (e.g., type of industry) there was a single physical copy of the award which was transferred to the next winner in the competition (held annually or quarterly). There were several levels of the award, depending on the level of the socialist competition: all-Union, republican, oblast-wide, industry-wide, enterprise/institution-wide, etc.
A similar award existed in a number of other communist states.
Red banner in Soviet folklore
A new article, 190, was included in the Soviet criminal code in 1960s. It provided imprisonment for anti-Soviet agitation (part 1), for participation in unauthorized meetings (part2) and for defamation of the Soviet coat of arms and the Red Banner (part 3). The last part seemed puzzling because there were no incidents of burning or mutilating the flag. . The law was actually adopted to prevent popular jokes about Soviet symbols by people tired of Soviet propaganda. Philologist Benedikt Sarnov illustrated this by several examples of typical political jokes widely popular at this time:
- "Rabinovich, could you please hold a banner with an image of Leonid Brezhnev at our next demonstration?" -- Rabinovich: "Oh, no! I've already held banners with images of Bukharin, Beria, Stalin and many others" . -- "Right... Rabinovich, you have such a lucky hand. Please hold our Red Banner!"
Gallery
- Order of the Red Banner of Labour Order of the Red Banner of Labour
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An anniversary medal for the Red Banner Transbaikal military district
See also
References
- ^ "Red banners, transferable", from the Great Soviet Encyclopedia Template:Ru icon
- ^ Benedikt Sarnov,Our Soviet Newspeak: A Short Encyclopedia of Real Socialism., Moscow: 2002, ISBN 5-85646-059-6 (Наш советский новояз. Маленькая энциклопедия реального социализма.), "Hammer and sickle. Red Banner" (pages 501-505)