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![[Karelian flag of 1978]](../images/s/su-kar78.gif)
In 1920 the communists proclaimed the soviet republic [following
the Finnish Soviet Republic — ed.]
and plain red flag was used.
Jaume Ollé, 17 Nov 1996
The Karelian Workersʼ Commune (Finnish: Karjalan Työkansan Kommuuni)
was set
up 7 June 1920 by decree of the All-Russian Central Executive Committee of
the Congress of Soviets. It worked in direct competition with the autonomous
East Karelian government. The chairman of the KWCʼs Revolutionary Committee
was a Finn, Edvard Gylling, who fled Finland when the red side lost the
civil war there. Initially, both the borders and administration structure of
the KWC were somewhat unsettled. The KWC did not have a constitution or a
flag of its own. Instead the Russian constitution applied, and the Russian
flags were used. Paskov [pas94]
illustrates two flags. First, the one of the
Russian SFSR. The
second flag shown is the well-known red flag with yellow star, hammer and
sickle (set to 1924 by Paskov [pas94]).
The Karelian Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic was proclaimed by the
Fourth All-Karelian Congress of Soviets 25 July 1923. Still, a flag was not
adopted until 1938. Until 1938, the flag of the Soviet Union was in use,
according to Paskov [pas94].
Jan Oskar Engene, 29 May 1997
![[Olonets ''Russian'' flag]](../images/s/su-ru18b.gif)
Though the KWC used the flags of the Russian SFSR, there might be one flag connected with Soviet Karelia. This is the flag Paskov [pas94] describes as «The Flag of the Russian Federation adopted in the Olonets Province in 1918». This is again a red field