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This flag was adopted by the Byelorussian SSR on December 25 , 1951 .

Prior to this, the flag was red with the Cyrillic characters ''БССР'' (''BSSR'') in gold in the top-left corner, surrounded by a gold border.

Between 1937 and the adoption of the above flag in the 1940s , the flag was the same, but with a gold Hammer And Sickle above the Cyrillic characters and no border.

Between 1919 and 1937 , the flag was red, with the Cyrillic characters ''ССРБ'' (''SSRB'') in the top left-hand corner. In early 1919 , a plain red flag was used.


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