The coat of arms of the Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic was adopted on 20 May 1921 by the government of the

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. The coat of arms is loosely based on the coat of arms of the

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. It shows symbols of

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(

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and

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). The

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rising above the

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stands for the future of the Georgian nation, and the

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for the victory of

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and the "world-wide socialist community of states". The banner bears the Soviet Union state motto ("

Workers of the world, unite! The political slogan "Workers of the world, unite!" is one of the rallying cries from ''The Communist Manifesto'' (1848) by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels (, literally , but soon popularised in English language, English as "Workers of the wo ...

") in both the Georgian and

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s. In Georgian, it is "პროლეტარებო ყველა ქვეყნისა, შეერთდით!" (transliterated: "''P’rolet’arebo q’vela kveq’nisa, sheertdit!''"). The

Abkhaz Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic The Abkhaz Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic, abbreviated as Abkhaz ASSR, was an autonomous republic of the Soviet Union within the Georgian SSR. It came into existence in February 1931, when the Socialist Soviet Republic of Abkhazia (SSR A ...

and the

Adjar Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic The Adjarian Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic (Adjarian ASSR or Adzhar ASSR; ka, აჭარის ავტონომიური საბჭოთა სოციალისტური რესპუბლიკა, tr; ) was an au ...

used variants of this coat of arms (in the Abkhaz case, with the name of the republic and the motto also in Abkhaz). A later version in 1981 introduced an inscription reading "საქ.სსრ" (Georgian abbreviation for "Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic") in the centre of the field. This coat of arms was replaced by a new one on December 11, 1990, and again on 2005.

History

First revision

The Revolutionary Committee of the SSR of Georgia twice, at its meetings, on March 8 and May 15, 1921, raised the question of the coat of arms. On May 20, 1921, the Revolutionary Committee of the SSR adopted a decree "On the arms and flag of the Socialist Soviet Republic of Georgia": The coat of arms is reconfirmed in the Constitution of the Georgian SSR, adopted by the Fourth All-Georgian Congress of Soviets of Workers, Peasants' and Red Army Deputies in 1927, the coat of arms is described in Article 112: According to Grebennikov, referring to the" Collection of Soviet Constitutions from Constitutional Acts "(Previously by Prof. A. Malitsky, People's Commissar of the Ukrainian SSR, 1928)

Second revision

In the opinion of the commission set up in 1937 under the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR, it was necessary to add the name of the republic to the coat of arms of the Georgian SSR, to introduce a red five-pointed star, and to represent citrus and tea between the ears and grapevines. Apparently, it was then recommended to remove from the coat of arms the motto "Proletarians of all countries, unite!" In French. According to V. Potseluev's book ''Emblems of the USSR'', on February 13, 1937, the Extraordinary VIII Congress of Soviets of the Georgian SSR adopted a new Constitution of the Georgian SSR, in which the arms were described as follows: On February 6, 1956, the Decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Council of the Georgian SSR approved the "Regulations on the State Emblem of the Georgian SSR".

Third revision

On April 15, 1978, the Supreme Soviet of the Georgian SSR adopted a new Constitution of the Georgian SSR. On June 18, 1981, in a new version of the "Regulations on the State Emblem of the Georgian SSR", the abbreviation "GSSR" was added to the emblem.

Gallery

File:Emblem of the Georgian SSR (1921-1937).svg, Emblem of the Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic (1921-1937) File:Emblem of the Georgian SSR (1937-1981)-2.png, Emblem of the Georgian SSR from 1937-1981. File:Emblem of the Georgian SSR-2.png, Emblem of the Georgian SSR.

References

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Georgian SSR The Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic, also known as Soviet Georgia, the Georgian SSR, or simply Georgia, was one of the republics of the Soviet Union from its second occupation (by the Red Army) in 1921 to its independence in 1991. Cotermin ...

Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic