Uzbek Soviet Socialist Republic, 1955

In 1955 the hammer and sickle emblem on the flags of all Soviet Socialist Republics were redesigned and so the flag of the Uzbek SSR was changed accordingly. The red flag displayed again a light blue horizontal stripe through the centre, with white fimbriation, one fifth of the width of the flag. These colours symbolised the blue sky over Uzbekistan and the white cotton, while red stood for “the revolutionary struggle of the working masses”, the hammer and sickle for workers and peasants and the star for the international proletariat.