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  2. Hammer and sickle - Wikipedia

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    The State Emblem of the Soviet Union and the Coats of Arms of the Soviet Republics showed the hammer and sickle, which also appeared on the red star badge on the uniform cap of the Red Army uniform and in many other places. Serp i Molot (transliteration of Russian: cерп и молот, "sickle and hammer") is the name of the Moscow ...

  3. Red star - Wikipedia

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    A red five-pointed star A New Year tree with a red star in front of a church cupola in Volokolamsk, Russia, 2010.. A red star, five-pointed and filled, is a symbol that has often historically been associated with communist ideology, particularly in combination with the hammer and sickle, but is also used as a purely socialist symbol in the 21st century.

  4. Communist symbolism - Wikipedia

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    The star symbolized protection, while the plough and the hammer were read as a union of workers and peasants. By the 1920s, the red star began to be used as an official symbol of the state, and finally, in 1924, it became part of the Soviet flag and the official emblem of the Soviet Union. [3] [4]

  5. State Emblem of the Soviet Union - Wikipedia

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    The Soviet Union joined World War II by invading Poland and Finland and occupying the Baltic states in 1939–40. The majority of the territories that Finland had to cede after the Winter War were combined with the Karelian Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic of the Russian SFSR into the "independent" Karelo-Finnish Soviet Socialist Republic ...

  6. Flag of the Soviet Union - Wikipedia

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    The flag of the Soviet Union consisted of a plain red flag with a gold hammer crossed with a gold sickle placed beneath a gold-bordered red star. This symbol is in the upper left canton of the red flag. The colour red honours the red flag of the Paris Commune of 1871; the red star and the hammer and sickle are symbols of communism and socialism.

  7. Emblems of the Soviet Republics - Wikipedia

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    USSR republics coat of arms display on USSR State Television.. The emblems of the constituent republics of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics all featured predominantly the hammer and sickle and the red star that symbolized communism, as well as a rising sun (although in the case of the Latvian SSR, since the Baltic Sea is west of Latvia, it could be interpreted as a setting sun ...

  8. List of emoticons - Wikipedia

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    A simple smiley. This is a list of emoticons or textual portrayals of a writer's moods or facial expressions in the form of icons.Originally, these icons consisted of ASCII art, and later, Shift JIS art and Unicode art.

  9. Emblem of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic

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    The Emblem of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic was adopted on 10 July 1918 by the Government of the Soviet Union, and had been modified several times afterwards. It shows wheat as the symbol of agriculture , a rising sun to symbolize the republic's future, the red star [ a ] as well as the hammer and sickle for the victory of ...