Moldavian Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic, 1938
In 1938 the Cyrillic script was again declared official for the Moldavian language and the Latin script was banned: the flag of the Moldovan ASSR changed accordingly: featuring on a red field, under a hammer and sickle emblem, in large letters the abbreviation of “Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic” and in smaller letters “Moldovan ASSR” in both Ukrainian and Moldovan and both in Cyrillic script.