Karakalpak Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic, 1941
Beginning in 1938 Cyrillic scripts were being developed for the languages of Central Asia and in 1940 Stalin decreed that the Latin scripts should be replaced with Cyrillic for those languages. In 1941 this change was reflected in the country’s red flag. It was now inscribed “Uzbek SSR” in Uzbek and Russian, both in gold capital Cyrillic letters and, underneath, in letters of smaller size, “Karakalpak ASSR” in the Karakalpak language, with underneath it the country’s name in Uzbek.