Flag_of_the_Latvian_Soviet_Socialist_Republic
Flag of the Latvian Soviet Socialist Republic
Flag of the U.S.S.R. republic of Latvia
The flag of the Latvian Soviet Socialist Republic shows a yellow hammer and sickle and outlined star on a red field above rippling water at the bottom,[1] and was adopted by the (former) Latvian Soviet Socialist Republic on January 17, 1953.