# Talk:Flag of Transnistria

There is no need to display the Moldavian SSR flag in an article about about Transnistria's flag. Even though the two very much resemble each other, we already have a link to the separate article about the MSSR flag so anyone who needs to see what that flag looks like is just one click away. Appropriate content should be sorted into appropriate categories. - Mauco 23:57, 15 April 2006 (UTC)

Even though the article text makes it clear that two versions of the flag are flown in Transnistria, this was not immediately clear at first glance from looking at the two images. To confirm with other flag related entries, I've now reworded the captions to clarify this. - Mauco 00:01, 16 April 2006 (UTC)

The phrasing of this article is confusing and needs to be cleaned up. It seems to say that the MSSR flag did not include the hammer and sickle (not true). But may have been intended to be taken to mean that the PMR state flag does not include the hammer and sickle (also not true). Interestingly, I’ve read some sources that mention that the PMR flag as adopted shortly after the declaration of sovereignty did not include the hammer and sickle. I have not seen the legislation (if it exists), however, and would not make this claim in the article.
I wanted to ask before I make any changes whether anyone knows if there are any differences between the PMR flag as adopted in 2000 and the flag of the MSSR?
Also, as a humorous note, it seems that the hammer and sickle is missing from the specifications for the flag provided for English-speakers on pridnestrovie.net. Intentionally no doubt! Jamason 16:39, 8 September 2006 (UTC)

In this article, we find two versions of the law: First of all "the 2000 law about state symbols",
second, "the law as of March 16, 2006". The link for the second didn't work on September 9, 2008 and I wonder what is the difference between 2000 and 2006 version?
Rettile 07:24, 10 September 2008 (UTC)

Hello,
Article Flag of Transnistria states that the current flag was adopted in 2000, using a version of the 1952-1990 flag used by the Moldavian SSR. Transnistria split from Moldova in 1990.
The article does not mention which flag was used between 1990 and 2000. Is anyone able to put this information in the article? Place Clichy (talk) 13:48, 14 December 2015 (UTC)

The Flags of the World web site uses the title "Dniestr Republic (Moldova)" for its page on Transnistria.  On that page someone says that "various flags" were in use before 2000.  Also on that page, someone says that when the hammer-and-sickle emblem is used on the flag, it is only on one side!  That's quite unusual. --76.69.45.64 (talk) 01:12, 17 December 2015 (UTC)
No, it was the same with the flag of the Soviet Union, it often had the hammer and sickle only on the obverse. Snowsuit Wearer (talk|contribs) 12:17, 26 December 2015 (UTC)

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The lede describes "three EQUAL horizontal bands...", and yet depictions show the horizontal width to be about 1/3 narrower for the green band.  All images seem to agree.  In the white-blue-red variant, however, the bands DO seem equal.  rags (talk) 15:33, 21 January 2019 (UTC)

I intend to delete the word 'equal.'  If you revert, please explain.  rags (talk) 15:35, 21 January 2019 (UTC)
OK, the confusion arose due to a description of a flag on a postage stamp "with three equal horizontal bands ..." in one of the outlink blogs referenced.  The specified description of tha actual flag design is of a red flag w/green band of height 1/4 that of the flag.  1/4 = 2/8, and the remaining 3/4 is shared by the two red bands, at 3/8 each.  —> 3/8 : 1/4 : 3/8 = 3:2:3!  QED  rags (talk) 16:49, 21 January 2019 (UTC)

Also, the green used is quite different from that used in, for example, African and South American flags: THEIR green is a somewhat brighter, "warmer" green.  Is this green specified in the Act, or is it only customary?

In the outlink, one depiction shows an almost dayglow bright green.  Another is almost olive drab.  Blogging, as we know, is less than an exact science, and I suspect a breakaway, newly-minted republic within the former Soviet sphere of influence might feel they have larger fish to fry than exact color-matching on their blog.  That said, if anyone can state descriptors of the green, so much the better.  It is a 'cooler' color, with less saturation, and more blue or gray, but I don't claim any expertise.  rags (talk) 17:04, 21 January 2019 (UTC)
such it's quite unexplainable to me, as the flag depicted in Moldavian SSR flag article appear to be quite "greener" than the "bluish green" on the present article, yet i though the PMR purposedly kept the MSSR flag without change. do we have any statement of PMR official that could explain such inconsistency? 2A01:E0A:984:A320:4054:8008:F44F:6FFE (talk) 23:13, 23 November 2021 (UTC)

I took a look at the flag of the Moldavian Soviet Socialist Republic and noticed that this flag is noticeably darker than the one in use in Transnistria. Has the colour change officially been changed to a brighter shade or is this rather a mistake by the user who uploaded it? As far as I know, Transnistria adopted the flag of the Moldavian SSR as it was. If it was never changed, is is the flag of the Moldavian Soviet Socialist Republic that should be used. Åttiotrean 226 (talk) 02:59, 3 January 2021 (UTC)

Hi all. If anyone is looking for an exact colour match for the PMR flag from a legal document it is actually described in law as being an exact match for the file at this link, that is, the 1st appendix to the 2013 flag law. All the best, Bayonet-lightbulb (talk) 04:38, 4 June 2025 (UTC)

While I agree with the sentiment of splitting the article into one section for Transnistria (the "Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic") and the Moldovan equivalent Administrative-Territorial Units of the Left Bank of the Dniester (mouthful of a name), but considering that the latter section simply describes the Flag of Moldova as Moldova has not designed/adopted a flag for this region, I think it'd be better to revert the article to the previous structure which was only about the Transnistrian flag and its variants.
If Moldova does adopt a design for its legally recognized administration of the Transnistria region, then I'd be more than happy to split the article similar to how Flag of Abkhazia is split as Georgia has its own flag design for the region, but I think there is little benefit to the current article structure here. There is precedent for only describing the flag of the unrecognized polity absent any equivalent internationally recognized flag; the Flag of Western Sahara article used to be 50% about the SADR flag and 50% about the Flag of Morocco, but this is no longer the case because there was no Moroccan version of the Western Sahara flag, just as there is no Moldavian version of the Transnistrian flag, so it is redundant to describe the internationally recognized national flag here.
 Vanilla  Wizard  💙 18:03, 10 April 2022 (UTC)

Agreed, the flag of Moldova is the flag of Moldova. It's not included on Flag of Gagauzia for the same obvious reason. CMD (talk) 04:42, 11 April 2022 (UTC)

Hi Yue, congratulations on your GA nomination. I've read the article and largely found no issues, but there's something I wanted to note. In the History section, it is said that it had been proposed to ban the Russian language in the MASSR, and that this incited the separatist conflict. A language ban law is actually quite the exceptional thing, I don't think I've ever read about such a law having been applied in any country. The cited sources are BBC and a book that does not talk about this time period in the cited page (128).
I most commonly see on reliable sources that what incited inhabitants of what's now Transnistria to rebel was that Russian had not been granted official status along with "Moldovan" (now in the Latin alphabet) in 1990 and fears over Moldovan unification with Romania. So I'd appreciate it if this problematic part of the article could be replaced. I can help you if you want, you only have to ask me. Super Ψ Dro 10:01, 25 July 2025 (UTC)

@Super Dromaeosaurus: I just uncritically repeated what the BBC source says because I consider the BBC a generally reliable source:
A move to ban the Russian language was the last straw, prompting Transnistria to safeguard its cultural heritage by proclaiming the independent Pridnestrovian Moldavian Soviet Socialist Republic (PMSSR) on 2 September 1990.
I probably just used the book source to verify the date a second time.
If you want to change the sentence to be more nuanced and then replace the sources, go ahead and do that; you have my support. Yue🌙 18:17, 25 July 2025 (UTC)