Eastern Mongolia

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• Eastern Mongolian Independent Republic

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People's Republic of Eastern Mongolia

Eastern Mongolian flag prior to Independence (1945-1946):

image by Jaume Ollé, 22 December 2009

National flag of People's Republic of Eastern Mongolia (1946-1947):

image by Jaume Ollé, 22 December 2009

The Eastern Mongolia, Hulunbuir, the former General Kingan Province of Manchukuo and the present Northwestern part of the Province of Jilin of PPC declared the region independence on 15th Jan 1946 with the national flag of horizontal stripes of red , pale blue and red , the middle stripe twice the width of the red stripes and charged with a yellow quirt and pick crossed and a star in the center.
They rejected overtures from both Chinese Communists and  their civil war enemies Chinese Nationalists. The Eastern Mongolian Government, its attempt to win allies in Mongolia blocked by Stalin, tried to win a promise of autonomy within China but finally defeated by Chinese Communists under Lin Piao in May 1947 and the government was dissolved and added to Innner Mongolia of PPC.
During 1945-1946 prior to Independence Declaration they used the red flag with yellow fimbriated red star and crossed quirt and pick in canton without Mongolian national colour pale blue.
Nozomi Kariyasu, 22 December 2009

Eastern Mongolian Independent Republic

In Evans' Observers Book of Flags (1959) [eva59] I read: "The flag of the Eastern Mongolian Independent Republic resembles the red flag of Russia [Soviet Union], except that the emblem below the star depicts a crossed mattock and horsewhip, representing the peasants and the Mongol horsemen." So far I found nothing on it in my books about this.
Jarig Bakker, 12 April 2000

I think it was the flag of Inner Mongolia (in China).
Victor Lomantsov, 4 April 2001

The Eastern Mongolian Independent Republic was an attempt to establish a state in the Mongolian inhabited western portion of Manchuria. The area was not part of Inner Mongolia at the time, although afterwards the Peoples Republic of China did incorporate it into Inner Mongolia from 1947 to 1969, and again from 1979 to the present. (Source: James Minahan, Nations Without States [mnh96])
Ned Smith, 23 April 2001