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Forgot to upload this one! My submission for the previous Weekly Flag Challenge.

The Challenge

FLAG CHALLENGE #159: Purple Rain

In flag design, the color purple is seriously underused. This challenge will try to fix this.

Your flag submission should use the color purple (in any shade you wish, so mauve, mulberry et al are allowed) as a main color or one of the main colors.

The flag should be designed for a country that decides to adopt it in the year 1984. The PoD, however, is up to you.

Submissions Open: Now
Submissions Close: 31st of January 2017
Voting Period: 1st - 7th of February 2017

For more details on general rules, click and read the FIRST PAGE

My Submission:

Far Eastern Republic
(formerly the Far Eastern Soviet Socialist Republic, formerly the Union of Communist Republics)

The Far Eastern Republic was a nominally independent state forged by the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic in 1920 to form a buffer between them and Japanese-held territories. However, after early victories against the White Russian army, it was absorbed as the Far Eastern Soviet Socialist Republic, maintaining a buffer while asserting greater control over the reason. However, the death of several key members of Bolshevik leaders following the April Assassinations, an attempt by Menshevik extremists to seize power and blame the attack on Counter-revolutionaries, caused the near collapse of the state when one of the conspirators admitted their plot in a bar. As the Soviets were nearly torn apart internally, the fragile balance between the Grigory Zinoviev, the Bolshevik leader after Vladimir Lenin assassination, and Yuliy Tsederbaum, the Menshevik leader, collapsed with the Fall of Petrograd to the forces of Grand Duke George Alexandrovich, who had himself crowned Tsar Yuri IV in Trinity Cathedral. From that point on, it was a war of survival, and Bolsheviks began to believe the Mensheviks a threat, forcing the nominally less radical side to begin fighting equally in self-defense. The war began to sway in the favor of Whites, especially after the Peace of Dresden, which called a ceasefire between the powers of Europe in the Weltkrieg (W after nearly a 8 years of war. The forces of Alexander Kolchak rallied at the sight of Tsar Yuri, on horseback, leading a charge against an entrenched communist force not far from Omsk (or so it is said, though many reported seeing him at other battles, leading to the belief in the use of doubles to provide moral). With the White Army effectively controlling European Russia and much of settled Siberia, the communist forces, now led by Boris Kamkov as Presiding Officer of the Sovnarkom, fled eastward once Moscow was lost, eventually meeting up with the isolated forces of the Far Eastern SSR, which had since come to begin administering the majority of the Russian Pacific coast as chaos from "Soviet Civil War" began to trickle in, and once the Trans-Siberian Railway was destroyed by White forces not far west of Tayshet, effectively making the region de facto independent.

Once Kamkov and his government arrived, the status of the Far Eastern Republic was then being simply all there was of the Union of Communist Republics, as was the name of the communists used after the end of their internal power struggle. With the government shaky and focused on military tactics to reclaim Moscow, the formerly subservient government of the Far Eastern SSR was the true masters of Communist Russia, who had come to be quite used to their autonomy as the war raged on, even trading with both the Chinese and Americans, and even the Japanese, for supplies once word from western Russia fell silent, and their own military leadership stopping a variety of incursions by White forces, including repelling an attempted Entente invasion of Vladivostok. President Nikolay Matveyev, kept as administrator of the SSR, got along terribly with Kamkov, then realized that before, his growing republic was neglected by the White Army and the forces of the Grand Entente and Central Powers as they looked to control European Russia, but that now, with the communist leadership residing in his capital of Chita, they were marching straight for him. Thus, in a bold and brazen act, Matveyev had the Sovnarkom and P.O. Kamkov arrested as "threats to the state", and opened negotiations with the Whites for a ceasefire.

Ambassadors of both the All-Russian Republican Empire (ARRE) and the Far Eastern Republic met alongside other world powers in the Switzerland for the Treaty of Zürich of 1927, which laid out the terms for the end of the Weltkrieg. Alongside many controversial agreements that set the stage for the First Europäischkrieg (EKI), or the European War, such as the Anschluss of Austria into the German Empire, the cessation of Dalmatia to the Serbian Republic, the division of Belgium, the dissolution of Italy, and the creation of the Free State of Alsace-Lothringen, the independence of the Far Eastern Republic was established. The border was agreed to be the Lena River and Lake Baikal, with a straight line from the southern tip leading to the Mongolian border. Tsar Yuri IV and Prime Minister Pyotr Vrangel agreed to the terms after several riots had occurred in both Moscow and Petrograd over food-rationing. In their minds, the communist state would fall apart, and come limping back to the Empire on its own. However, the Far Eastern Republic was quick to form the Communist International as a military and economic alliance between it, the Mongolian People's Republic, the yet unrecognized Manchurian Socialist Republic, and later the People's Republic of Hungary and the Hellenic Workers' Republic. The former two states would later be annexed, turning the Far Eastern Republic into a federal state consisting of the People's Republics of Okhotsk, Mongolia, and Manchuria, with Chita transformed into the "Capital of the Republic", a federal city directly ruled by the Far Eastern United Soviet.

Today, the Far Eastern Republic is still a socialist state, but, being heavily dependent on trade from inception, has created a so-called "socialist market", often better described as "heavily-regulated capitalism", justified by the leadership as needed, as the world was not yet in the state of "Super-Abundance" required for true communism as Marx described. As such, despite openly funding communist parties around the globe, the spectre of communism was never heavily feared by the Western World, and in fact there was an increase in support for socialism post-EKI, as anti-war sentiment rose from returning troops. The socialists governments of the Commonwealth of Greater Britannia and the Danubian Socialist Confederation owe themselves to this period of rise, their parties funded and grown from infancy from Far Eastern funds as much as they do the effects of EKII. While not a world power, even being supplanted by the CGB as leader of the Communist International, the Far Eastern Republic is still a well-known and well-respected state, though it maintains a rivalry with the ARRE, who still claim the Far Eastern People's Republic of Okhotsk, despite condemnation from much of the world and the Third League of Nations.

The flag of the Far Eastern Republic has changed greatly over the years, but two colors have remained consistent; red and dark violet. Initially red and dark blue, made somewhat arbitrarily for the Republic during its time as a buffer state, fading of the canton gave the Republic its distinctive colors. The addition of Green was done with the establishment of the Republic as independent after the Treaty of Zürich, meant to diversify the flag and distance itself from the all-red banners of the USSR and UCR. Once Mongolia and Manchuria were integrated into the Republic, a white stripe was added to create a tricolor as a symbolism for three constituent states, and each color has since come to represent two things: Green for Mongolia's lush steppes and for prosperity; Red for the Manchurian people and for the blood of revolutionaries; White for the snow of Okhotsk and the peace between classes found in socialism. Lastly, Violet has come to represent friendship and amity between the member states of the Republic, and is often used to represent the Far East as a whole.

Description
Forgot to upload this one! My submission for the previous Weekly Flag Challenge.

The Challenge

FLAG CHALLENGE #159: Purple Rain

In flag design, the color purple is seriously underused. This challenge will try to fix this.

Your flag submission should use the color purple (in any shade you wish, so mauve, mulberry et al are allowed) as a main color or one of the main colors.

The flag should be designed for a country that decides to adopt it in the year 1984. The PoD, however, is up to you.

Submissions Open: Now
Submissions Close: 31st of January 2017
Voting Period: 1st - 7th of February 2017

For more details on general rules, click and read the FIRST PAGE

My Submission:

Far Eastern Republic
(formerly the Far Eastern Soviet Socialist Republic, formerly the Union of Communist Republics)

The Far Eastern Republic was a nominally independent state forged by the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic in 1920 to form a buffer between them and Japanese-held territories. However, after early victories against the White Russian army, it was absorbed as the Far Eastern Soviet Socialist Republic, maintaining a buffer while asserting greater control over the reason. However, the death of several key members of Bolshevik leaders following the April Assassinations, an attempt by Menshevik extremists to seize power and blame the attack on Counter-revolutionaries, caused the near collapse of the state when one of the conspirators admitted their plot in a bar. As the Soviets were nearly torn apart internally, the fragile balance between the Grigory Zinoviev, the Bolshevik leader after Vladimir Lenin assassination, and Yuliy Tsederbaum, the Menshevik leader, collapsed with the Fall of Petrograd to the forces of Grand Duke George Alexandrovich, who had himself crowned Tsar Yuri IV in Trinity Cathedral. From that point on, it was a war of survival, and Bolsheviks began to believe the Mensheviks a threat, forcing the nominally less radical side to begin fighting equally in self-defense. The war began to sway in the favor of Whites, especially after the Peace of Dresden, which called a ceasefire between the powers of Europe in the Weltkrieg (W after nearly a 8 years of war. The forces of Alexander Kolchak rallied at the sight of Tsar Yuri, on horseback, leading a charge against an entrenched communist force not far from Omsk (or so it is said, though many reported seeing him at other battles, leading to the belief in the use of doubles to provide moral). With the White Army effectively controlling European Russia and much of settled Siberia, the communist forces, now led by Boris Kamkov as Presiding Officer of the Sovnarkom, fled eastward once Moscow was lost, eventually meeting up with the isolated forces of the Far Eastern SSR, which had since come to begin administering the majority of the Russian Pacific coast as chaos from "Soviet Civil War" began to trickle in, and once the Trans-Siberian Railway was destroyed by White forces not far west of Tayshet, effectively making the region de facto independent.

Once Kamkov and his government arrived, the status of the Far Eastern Republic was then being simply all there was of the Union of Communist Republics, as was the name of the communists used after the end of their internal power struggle. With the government shaky and focused on military tactics to reclaim Moscow, the formerly subservient government of the Far Eastern SSR was the true masters of Communist Russia, who had come to be quite used to their autonomy as the war raged on, even trading with both the Chinese and Americans, and even the Japanese, for supplies once word from western Russia fell silent, and their own military leadership stopping a variety of incursions by White forces, including repelling an attempted Entente invasion of Vladivostok. President Nikolay Matveyev, kept as administrator of the SSR, got along terribly with Kamkov, then realized that before, his growing republic was neglected by the White Army and the forces of the Grand Entente and Central Powers as they looked to control European Russia, but that now, with the communist leadership residing in his capital of Chita, they were marching straight for him. Thus, in a bold and brazen act, Matveyev had the Sovnarkom and P.O. Kamkov arrested as "threats to the state", and opened negotiations with the Whites for a ceasefire.

Ambassadors of both the All-Russian Republican Empire (ARRE) and the Far Eastern Republic met alongside other world powers in the Switzerland for the Treaty of Zürich of 1927, which laid out the terms for the end of the Weltkrieg. Alongside many controversial agreements that set the stage for the First Europäischkrieg (EKI), or the European War, such as the Anschluss of Austria into the German Empire, the cessation of Dalmatia to the Serbian Republic, the division of Belgium, the dissolution of Italy, and the creation of the Free State of Alsace-Lothringen, the independence of the Far Eastern Republic was established. The border was agreed to be the Lena River and Lake Baikal, with a straight line from the southern tip leading to the Mongolian border. Tsar Yuri IV and Prime Minister Pyotr Vrangel agreed to the terms after several riots had occurred in both Moscow and Petrograd over food-rationing. In their minds, the communist state would fall apart, and come limping back to the Empire on its own. However, the Far Eastern Republic was quick to form the Communist International as a military and economic alliance between it, the Mongolian People's Republic, the yet unrecognized Manchurian Socialist Republic, and later the People's Republic of Hungary and the Hellenic Workers' Republic. The former two states would later be annexed, turning the Far Eastern Republic into a federal state consisting of the People's Republics of Okhotsk, Mongolia, and Manchuria, with Chita transformed into the "Capital of the Republic", a federal city directly ruled by the Far Eastern United Soviet.

Today, the Far Eastern Republic is still a socialist state, but, being heavily dependent on trade from inception, has created a so-called "socialist market", often better described as "heavily-regulated capitalism", justified by the leadership as needed, as the world was not yet in the state of "Super-Abundance" required for true communism as Marx described. As such, despite openly funding communist parties around the globe, the spectre of communism was never heavily feared by the Western World, and in fact there was an increase in support for socialism post-EKI, as anti-war sentiment rose from returning troops. The socialists governments of the Commonwealth of Greater Britannia and the Danubian Socialist Confederation owe themselves to this period of rise, their parties funded and grown from infancy from Far Eastern funds as much as they do the effects of EKII. While not a world power, even being supplanted by the CGB as leader of the Communist International, the Far Eastern Republic is still a well-known and well-respected state, though it maintains a rivalry with the ARRE, who still claim the Far Eastern People's Republic of Okhotsk, despite condemnation from much of the world and the Third League of Nations.

The flag of the Far Eastern Republic has changed greatly over the years, but two colors have remained consistent; red and dark violet. Initially red and dark blue, made somewhat arbitrarily for the Republic during its time as a buffer state, fading of the canton gave the Republic its distinctive colors. The addition of Green was done with the establishment of the Republic as independent after the Treaty of Zürich, meant to diversify the flag and distance itself from the all-red banners of the USSR and UCR. Once Mongolia and Manchuria were integrated into the Republic, a white stripe was added to create a tricolor as a symbolism for three constituent states, and each color has since come to represent two things: Green for Mongolia's lush steppes and for prosperity; Red for the Manchurian people and for the blood of revolutionaries; White for the snow of Okhotsk and the peace between classes found in socialism. Lastly, Violet has come to represent friendship and amity between the member states of the Republic, and is often used to represent the Far East as a whole.