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The question of the Soviet state flag was first considered at the meeting of the All-Russian Central Executive Committee (VTsIK) on April 8th, 1918, when the Presidium of the VTsIK adopted a decree about the flag of the Russian Republic. \r\nThe first official drawing of the state flag of the Soviet country was executed by a student of the great Russian artist I. E. Repin, S. V. Chekhonin, who on the red background of the banner in Slavic lettering placed the gold letters "RSFSR".\r\n\r\nThe scarlet banner first erupted as a bright flame of the revolution on the barricades at the time of the uprising of Parisian workers in June 1832. It was raised again over the capital of France in 1871, during the days of the Parisian Commune. \r\nThe red color of the flag is an eternal reminder of the blood spilled and the selfless courage of the revolutionaries of many countries and several generations, who showed heroism in the struggle for the liberation of humanity, for the creation of a new society on earth. \r\nIn Russia the red flag flew for the first time over the demonstration of workers of Petersburg in 1876. It was raised to the sky above the columns of demonstrators by the young workman Yakov Potapov. \r\nIn 1905 red flags waved above the heroic barricades of workers of Presnya in Moscow, fluttered over the uprising of revolutionary ships - the battleship "Potemkin" and the cruiser "Ochakov."\r\nThe red flag became the symbol of the upcoming socialist revolution. V. I. Lenin brilliantly foresaw that "this flag will rise even higher, for this banner is the banner of all working people and the exploited throughout the entire world."\r\nUnder the red banner, workers, soldiers and peasants at the head of Lenin's party prevailed in October of 1917. After the Great October Socialist revolution, the red color became the color of the State flag of the land of Soviets. \r\n\r\nLL: 2