Template:Country data Soviet Union

Template documentation

Template:Country data Soviet Union is an internal data container not intended to be transcluded directly. It is used indirectly by templates such as Flag, Flagicon, and others.

Standard parameters

Parameter name	Value	Meaning
alias	Soviet Union	Main article name (Soviet Union)
flag alias	Flag of the Soviet Union.svg	Image name (File:Flag of the Soviet Union.svg, shown on right)

Flag variants

Label	Flag image (40px)	Image name
1922	File:Flag of the Soviet Union (1922–1923).svg	Flag of the Soviet Union (1922–1923).svg
1923	File:Flag of the Soviet Union (1924).svg	Flag of the Soviet Union (1924).svg
1924	File:Flag of the Soviet Union (1924–1936).svg	Flag of the Soviet Union (1924–1936).svg
1936	File:Flag of the Soviet Union (1936–1955).svg	Flag of the Soviet Union (1936–1955).svg
1955	File:Flag of the Soviet Union (1955–1980).svg	Flag of the Soviet Union (1955–1980).svg
naval-1924	File:Naval Ensign of the Soviet Union 1923.svg	Naval Ensign of the Soviet Union 1923.svg
naval-1935	File:Naval Ensign of the Soviet Union 1935.svg	Naval Ensign of the Soviet Union 1935.svg
naval	File:Naval Ensign of the Soviet Union.svg	Naval Ensign of the Soviet Union.svg
marines		Naval Jack of the Soviet Union.svg
navy		Naval Jack of the Soviet Union.svg
air force		Flag of the Soviet Air Force.svg
army	File:Red Army flag (reverse).svg	Red Army flag (reverse).svg

Military ensigns

This template includes a naval ensign flag variant that can be used with Template:Navy:

• {{Navy|Soviet Union}} → Soviet Navy
• {{Flagicon|Soviet Union|naval}} →
  This template includes an air force ensign flag variant that can be used with Template:Air force:
• {{Air force|Soviet Union}} → Soviet Air Forces
• {{Flagicon|Soviet Union|air force}} →
  This template includes a marine ensign flag variant that can be used with Template:Marines:
• {{Marines|Soviet Union}} → Soviet Naval Infantry
• {{Flagicon|Soviet Union|marines}} →
  This template includes a navy flag variant that can be used with Template:Naval:
• {{Naval|Soviet Union}} → Soviet Navy
• {{Flagicon|Soviet Union|navy}} →
  This template includes an army ensign flag variant that can be used with Template:Army:
• {{Army|Soviet Union}} → Soviet Army
• {{Flagicon|Soviet Union|army}} →

Redirect aliases

This template can also be used via an alias name (implemented as a redirect to this template):

Alias name	{{Flag|alias}} output	{{Flagcountry|alias}} output
URS (view)	URS	Soviet Union
USSR (view)	Soviet Union	Soviet Union
SUN (view)	SUN	Soviet Union
the Soviet Union (view)	the Soviet Union	Soviet Union

See What links here for a full list of redirects.

Example usage

• {{Flag|Soviet Union}} → Soviet Union
• {{Flagicon|Soviet Union}} →

Using a flag variant

• {{Flag|Soviet Union|1922}} → Soviet Union
• {{Flagicon|Soviet Union|1922}} →

Using a redirect alias

• {{Flagicon|URS}} →
• {{Flagcountry|URS}} → Soviet Union
• {{Flag|URS}} → URS

Related templates

Please see the following related country_data templates:

• Template:Country data Commonwealth of Independent StatesCommonwealth of Independent States

TemplateData

This is the TemplateData for this template used by TemplateWizard, VisualEditor and other tools. See a monthly parameter usage report for this template in articles based on this TemplateData.

TemplateData for Country data Soviet Union

This template should not be used directly. It is used indirectly by flag templates such as Template:Flag and Template:Flagicon. See Category:Flag template system for a full list of flag templates and Wikipedia:WikiProject Flag Template for further documentation.

Template parameters[Edit template data]

This template prefers inline formatting of parameters.

Parameter		Description	Type	Status
No parameters specified

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