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In the late eighties in USA was made a TV series called Amerika, a
fiction about Soviet occupation of USA.
Victor Lomantsov, 03 Mar 2001
In the series, the U.S. had been broken up into ten or so “administrative
regions” — essentially groupings of states destined to become separate
countries (i.e., California and Nevada comprised the “California
Special District”; Kentucky, Tennessee and West Virginia comprised
“Appalachia”, and so forth). The general design of the flags
for these regions seemed to be a dark blue field with a centered
golden-yellow map of the states in the region; and the name of the region
towards the bottom in gold letters.
Jeremy March, 29 Nov 2002
The series referred to an organization called the “American Unity
Party”. A scene shot in the office of a local party official showed a
yellow banner with a red border and a black scales-of-justice design in the
center above the black words «American Unity Party».
Jeremy March, 29 Nov 2002
by Marc Pasquin, 02 Jul 2005
Red flag with two white ovals with
portraits of Lenin and Lincoln.
Victor Lomantsov, 03 Mar 2001
The flags depicting the pictures of Lincoln and Lenin were featured in a
“Lincoln Week” parade in Omaha, Nebraska, in the second episode
of the series. Parades in Communist countries often used decorative red banners
bearing the likenesses of Communist leaders or historical national heroes who
had been “adopted” as historical role models by the Communist
governments. Thus, probably these flags were used solely for decoration, and
did not represent any particular party or organization.
Jeremy March, 29 Nov 2002
I recently found a monochromatic vidcap of a scene that show the flag
pretty well. The portraits themselves appear to be only 2 tones (black and
white).
Marc Pasquin, 02 Jul 2005
Towards the end of the series, one of the “administrative
regions” — consisting of Illinois and several other Midwestern
states — formally became an independent country called
“Heartland”. The flag, briefly displayed, consisted of three
vertical stripes of dark blue, golden yellow, and dark blue, with a
Soviet-style emblem on the center stripe. I believe the
emblem showed a wreath of wheat intertwined with a blue, white and red tricolor
flag, with a six-pointed red star in the center. The star seemed similar to the
red stars on the current flag of Chicago, which was
supposed to be Heartland’s capital city.
Jeremy March, 29 Nov 2002
image by António Martins and Željko Heimer, 04 Jul 2010
A United Nations-like flag was frequently displayed
in the series. This flag was sky blue, with a white United Nations emblem
located between an American flag
(minus the stars in the
canton) and a Soviet flag.
Jeremy March, 29 Nov 2002
It was never clear whether this was the future flag of the
United Nations (unlikely, given that the series assumed that the U.S. had
ceased to exist as an independent country) or the flag of the Soviet-led,
U.N. peacekeeping force stationed in the former United States.
Jeremy March, 29 Nov 2002
image by António Martins and Joe McMillan, 04 Jul 2010
It might lack stars due to its small size on this design, or the lack may be
meaningful: Also not clear if it is supposed to be the former
U.S. flag, or the (modified?) current flag.
António Martins, 04 Jul 2010 and 12 Oct 2011
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