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Can we all agree that the 1936 Soviet flag is OBJECTIVELY better than the khruschevite garbage they concocted up in 1955
(lemmygrad.ml)
In the end it doesn't matter, since i uncontrollably 
whenever is see either of them
Peaked in 1922
i dont think that was the actual flag, just a recreation, as that specific coat of arms was under the stalin administration. And this flag came into use for only the first four months of the union's existence before being replaced by the hammer and sickle we know and love. So technically this would be the first actual flag of the USSR.
the 1923-24 version
before the 1925 adoption of the stalin version