Hungarian People's Republic Flag (1949-1956)
image by Željko Heimer
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Hungarian People's Republic Flag (1949-1956)
image by Željko Heimer
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Hungary from 1 February 1946 to 20 August 1949 was a republic.
The official name was: Republic of Hungary (Magyar
Köztársaság).
The republic used the tricolour and the tricolour with the Kossuth Coat of Arms. The official
Coat of Arms was the "Kossuth Coat of Arms"
Between 20 Augist 1949 - 23 October 1989 Hungarian People's
Republic was the official English form of the name of the
country. The above flag with Rákosi
Coat of Arms was used from 20 Augist 1949 to 23 October 1989.
In 1956-1957 the "Kossuth Coat
of Arms" was used and the flag was the tricolour. From
1957 the flag with Kádár Coat of
Arms was in use.
István Molnár, 10 November 2000
I read in a soviet book that the "Kossuth Coat of
Arms" is a Coat of Arms with three stripes of national
colours (like the Coat of Arms of 1957-1989). Now I know
that it was a mistake... "Kossuth Coat of Arms" is the
Hungarian Coat of Arms without crown. Why only in 1956-1957
"the flag was the tricolour" ? As I know the Coat of
Arms was removed from the flag by Law No 11 in 1957. The Coat of
Arms existed until 1990.
Victor Lomantsov, 12 November 2000
image by Željko Heimer
At Sesam Encyclopedie (1977) - Hungary: Ra'kosi's flag, charge
slightly larger, compared to the image above, going into the
green and red
Peter Hans van den Muijzenberg, 30 September 2000
image by Sándor Kiss, 3 September 1998
During the Hungarian uprising against the communist
authorities in 1956, the communist arms were removed from the
center of their flag, leaving a hole. The
Hungarian-flag-with-hole is still used by the Association of
Political Prisoners (translation approximate, but essentially
those Hungarians imprisoned after the uprising - the organization
now commands some considerable influence in Hungary). The
newspaper of the association is (or maybe was, as my info. is
some years old) 'The Hole'. I used to have a metal lapel pin of
the Hungarian flag, complete with hole, given to me by a friend
who was a member. The hole was bigger than just the white stripe,
since the arms also stretched into the red and green fields.
Stuart A. Notholt, 3 November 1996
The flag at <mkdsz.hungary.cc>
has been given to the European Council on the 23rd of June 1999.
This is an original flag. This flag has got the "Arms of the
Revolution" since 24th of October 1956. Till 1989 the flag
was in the USA to represent the Hungarian Freedom. On 16th of
June 1989 the flag was a participant in the reburial ceremony of
Imre Nagy, the Prime Minister in the days of the Revolution and
Independence War. He was executed on the 16th June 1958.
István Molnár, 1 November 2000
At our church, St. Stephen of Hungary (Burlington, Ontario,
Canada), we also have an authentic 1956 Hungarian flag, with the
crest cut out, of course. I am unsure of this particular
flag's history, but I could look into it, if you like. It
is displayed three times a year: 1) On the Friday nearest October
23rd, when our scout troop takes it out to a nearby cemetary
where we had a monument raised in rememberance of the Revolution,
where we have a ceremony (often in the rain, for some reason),
involving revolutionary poems, prayers, patriotic songs, and
firsthand accounts by people who fought in the Revolution.
2) On the Sunday following said date, when it, the Canadian flag,
and the boys' and girls' scout troops (not girl guides or
whatnot) flags are displayed for a "zászlós mise", a
"flags' mass". And, lastly, 3) At the luncheon
following said mass, when it is paraded before local dignitaries,
often including the mayor and the Hungarian Consul from Toronto.
Georges Kovari, 2 November 2000
It should perhaps be pointed out that this flag ceased to be
an exclusively historic flag. In recent years, it has very much
become a political flag, specifically a symbol of opposition to
Hungary's current administration.
Thorsten, 23 October 2003
There is a photo at Élet
és Tudomány (22 October 2004), of a tricolour with the
Kossuth Coat of Arms in October 1956 at the demolished Stalin
Statue. The Kossuth Coat of Arms (Coat of Arms without
crown) has been used by the people at the revolutionary era:1849,
1918, 1948, 1956, 1989.
István Molnár, 21 October 2004
During May of 2004, there was a flag with a hole flying
outside the Hungarian Parliament building in Budapest. Here is my
photograph: <colindobson.co.uk>
where it can be seen that the hole occupies the white band of the
flag only and does not extend beyond that. The flag is on its own
flag pole in the grassed area, away from the building, with a
metal barrier around it.
Colin Dobson, 21 March 2006
Vertical Rememberence Flag
image by István Molnár, 6 November 2001
image by Sandor Kiss, 3 September 1998
While visiting the Hungarian National Museum, I took some
photos of tipical communist flags, such as Winner flag of the Working Emulation of the Rákosi
Shift 1953, The ambulatory
Flag of the Central Comittee of the Association of the
Working Youth - to The Best Helper Local Organisation of the AWY
at the Cotton Growing and ambulatory
flag of the Cabinet Council of the Peoples Republic of
Hungary - to the Leading Farmer's Co-operative Farm of the
Country II."
István Molnár, 20 February 2006
