v2.1

- new flag of communist Belgium with unique coat of arms

Berber communists:
- Algeria communist flag changed to feel more communist
- Morocco communist flag changed - hopefully to be more realistic
- Tunisia communist flag now has Workers' Party emblem from 1986 instead of fictional emblems

- long overdue communist Lebanon flag
- Roman flags revisited
- France and Vichy communist flags resized
- France and Vichy monarchist/neutral flag changed
- Bahamas communist flag got it's red star

Further changes to warlords:
- Guanxi Clique KMT emblem resized to be smaller
- Guanxi Clique, Shanxi, XSM and Yunaan fascist flag is now the same as neutral flag
- Sinkiang flags changed:
-- neutral flag is now a variant of KMT banner
-- fascist flag is now based on Manchukuo design and will be used in case if Japan wins Sino-Japanesee war (where AI often puppets Sinkiang instead of anexing it)
-- democratic flag has Uyghur emblem to signify their autonomy
- all of the warlords (including Sinkiang) should switch to standard Republic of China flag if they win political struggle against KMT

- communist chinese warlords got unique flags in case that they rebel against Mao Zedong and main CPC forces
-- Guanxi Clique communist flag is now "Zhong Gong" which was historically used from 1931-1934:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jiangxi%E2%80%93Fujian_Soviet
-- Yunaan communist flag is now the first war flag of Soviet China (historically used in the early days of Chinese Soviet Republic near 1930's)
-- XSM will use the "yellow river" PRC proposed flag
-- Shanxi will use a variant of the second war flag of soviet China (historically used until 1937)
- all of the communist warlords should switch to standard communist party of china flag if they win the political struggle against the PRC with the option of implementing post-1949 PR China flag via focus tree

- new fascist Canada flag
- Laos flags switched (now fascist and democratic flags are the same as neutral and not the same as communist)
- new Mongolia flag (for fascist and neutral)
- new communist Ireland flag with communist party emblem and starry plough design
- Turkey/Ottoman communist flags are now more communist, but not less floral
- Persia (unified) communist flag changed to be more believable (still isn't)
- communist Finland flag stripe is now thinner
- Scandinavian communist flag stripe is now also thinner
- new Italian communist flag based on PCI party flag design with PCI emblem

v2.0
- new aesthetic communist Australia flag
- new, hopefully more realistic flag of communist Brazil (thanks for ideas @Enriador - I decided for a variant with distinctive green and yellow emblems instead of plain red/white/black flag)
- corrected and reuploaded Chinese warlords flags
-- now every warlord should have it's own banner variant (meant to represent sub-factions inside Kuomintang), but after winning the political struggle they should adopt historical Republic of China flag)
-- flags are semi-historical and based on war flags from pre-1937 era and war banners used by Chinese soldiers during Sino-Japanese war
-- the change was made to easily differentiate between Chinese warlord armies when playing as both China and Japan
-- heavy inspiration for this change were flags used by warlords from Darkest Hour: the Hearts of Iron game - they are not the same though
- new imperial federation flags (democratic will use the standard Union Jack, while communist will use the globe flag with British communist emblem - and thus the Commonwealth flags from 1970s got completely eradicated from the mod)
- new flag of communist Japan
- changed maj_unified_communism.tga
- corrected flags for Moldova - now all of them should load proper medium and small flag variants
- new communist Nigeria flag (should still feel distinctively Nigerian with the proper color scheme)
- new fictional, but made from scratch and hopefully realistic communist Ottoman Empire flag (previous one was meh)
- removed communist Saudi Arabia floral pattern flag
-- previous flag was absolutely non-historical
-- new flag takes heavy inspiration from the emblem of the Union of Democratic Youth: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communist_Party_in_Saudi_Arabia
-- color scheme of the new flag includes standard Pan-Arab black-white-red aesthetics
- communist United Central America (formable nation) got a unique flag with red star based on Kaiserreich Centroamerica flag design
- new flag of communist New Zealand
- communist Algerian flag updated with Algerian communist party emblem

BETA - updated to Hydra 1.7.*

Some new flags including:
-Cote d'Ivorie (communist)
-warlord flags
-Argentina (communist)

1.7.1
quickfix

1.7

hotfix
- Korean flags were resized to be visible

v1.6

- new fascist Chile flag
https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plik:Flag_of_National_Socialist_Movement_of_Chile.svg

- new communist Chile flag based on:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communist_Party_of_Chile

- new integralist/fascist Brazil flag based on:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brazilian_Integralist_Action

- new communist Brazil flag inspired by:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_S%C3%A3o_Paulo_(state)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:State_Emblem_of_the_Soviet_Union.svg

v1.5
- new Cambodian flags
- Japanese communist flag is now based on communist party flag
- readded CSA flags with USA_CSA tags so they should work again
- some other minor flag changes

v1.4

- corrected Sinkiang neutral and fascist flags
- removed Greater German Reich unique ahistorical flags

v1.3

Changes to the British Empire:
- revisited and updated the British Commonwealth flags:
-- democratic one now uses historical Commonwealth flag
--- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Flag_of_the_Commonwealth_of_Nations_(1976).svg
-- communist one now uses the lighter red color togehter with the emblem used for British communists (two hammers instead of the enclosed fist)
- added completely new Franco-British Union flags
- Belize (British Honduras) will now use the British Honduras flag when neutral
-- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Flag_of_British_Honduras_(1919%E2%80%931981).svg
- some minor improvements in other commonwealth countries

Changes to communist Persia and other Muslim countries (to replace rugs and most of the plain flags):
- Communist Persia flag now includes the historical emblem of the Tudeh Party - the Red Rose
-- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tudeh_Party_of_Iran
- Communist Persian Empire uses the color of the Tudeh Party emblem with white and gold accents
- other floral changes include:
-- Saudi Arabian flags were revised - fascist one uses the black flag of Caliphate while communist one utilises floral pattern with red-white-black pan-arab coloring
-- Unified Arabian communist flag is now the red and black rose (red, white and black are pan-arabic colors while the red and black petalts symbolise the many tribes and peoples of one pan-arab nation)
--- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pan-Arab_colors
--- lack of green in the flag is intentional since it's the communist flag while green symbolises God (Allah)
-- Unified Arabian fascist flag is now the flag of Islamic Calphate with the Muhammad Seal
-- Ottoman Empire and Turkey communist flags now utilize the Turkish Tulip instead of just being plain red or using meme sickles instead of moon (I took an inspiration from the logo of Tukrey)
-- added new communist Morocco flag
-- Algerian communist flag now uses the national symbol of Algeria - Iris tectorum
- other non-floral communist flags include:
-- communist Egypt will now have the proper flag instead of just being gold (source:reddit.com/r/vexillology/)
-- Iraq communist flag is now using the colors of Iraq Communist Party flag (red stars and orange accents)
--- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iraqi_Communist_Party
--- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Icpsymbol.PNG
-- communist Syria uses the fascist variant of the Syrian flag with the communist Iraq colors (Orange-White-Black with red stars)
-- communist Tunisia flag added

other changes:
- Armenia Eternal - fascist variant of the flag now utilzes the Arevakhach symbol (also corrected the shades on democratic and neutral flags)
-- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armenian_eternity_sign
- Neutral Austria will now use historically correct flag of the Federal State:
-- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Flag_of_Austria_(state)_1934-1938.svg
- Nazi Austria (under DNSAP) will now use the same flag as nazi Germany
- changed the flag of Republic of China (also for the warlords) - the blue is now of darker shade than vanilla hoi4
-- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Flag_of_the_Republic_of_China.svg
- changed Mutapa fascist and communist flags to be more black and red
- fascist Mozambique lost it's red triangle
- Philippines fascist flag got the lighter tint according to:
-- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Philippine_Republic
-- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Flag_of_the_Philippines_(1943-1945).svg
- new neutral, democratic and communist Scottish flags added
- new proper flags for the restored Roman Empire
- Xibei San Ma (Ma Clique) neutral flag updated according to:
-- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ma_clique

v1.2

- updated the Sinkiang communist flag according to:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/People%27s_Anti-Imperialist_Association#CITEREFChaudhuri2016
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Xinjiang-Shicai-2.jpg
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xinjiang_Province,_Republic_of_China

- updated the Sinkiang deomcratic/neutral/fascist flags to correspond with other Chinese warlord flags
-- the reason being that Sinkiang in the game clearly meant to represent the rebelled region of China with standard Chinese Warlord focus tree according to:
--- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islamic_rebellion_in_Xinjiang_(1937)
-- unfortunately the East Turkestan Republic has no proper representation in the game (fascist/neutral/democratic leaders of Sinkiang are Chinese and not Uyghur/Kazakh)
--- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_East_Turkestan_Republic

- updated (again) communist Chinese flag according to this source:
-- http://english.cpc.people.com.cn/206972/206981/8188029.html
-- Since we don't really know how this flag exactly looked like the new flag I added into the mod consists of the last known 1934 variant of the hammer and sickle from the second chinese war standard fused together with the colors of party flag used after 1951.

- updated communist variants of warlord flags that have CPC as their communist party

- updated the fictional flag of communist India to still use Ashoka Chakra together with standard socialist heraldry

- updated the fictional flag of communist Ireland to properly utilise the Starry Plough design
-- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starry_Plough_(flag)

- updated communist Fiji flag to use soviet heraldry instead of western/english heraldry

- updated communist Siam/Thailand flags to have an elephant instead of just being plain red