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(red flag, charged with yellow canton stars in the top left corner, colors reminiscent of the Flag of the Qing dynasty and the Flag of the Republic of China) Flag of Japan (white flag, charged with a centered red circular disc representing the sun, embodying the name Land of the Rising Sun )
Common design elements of flags include shapes such as stars, stripes, and crosses, layout elements such as including a canton (a rectangle with a distinct design, such as another national flag), and the overall shape of a flag, such as the aspect ratio of a rectangular flag (whether the flag is square or rectangle, and how wide it is) or the ...
⚑ Red flag – socialism, communism, anti-fascism; Red Hand of Ulster – Ulster loyalism, Ulster unionism, Ulster nationalism ★ Red star – socialism, Marxism, communism, Neozapatismo ‹See TfM› Red whirlwind (Zawba'a) – Syrian Social Nationalism
The red flag, the hammer and sickle and the red star or variations thereof are some of the symbols adopted by communist movements, governments, and parties worldwide. A tradition of including communist symbolism in socialist-style emblems and flags began with the flag of the Soviet Union and has since been taken up by a long line of socialist ...
In the logo of the Communist Party USA, a circle is formed by a half cog and a semicircular sickle-blade. A hammer is laid directly over the sickle's handle with the hammer's head at the logo's center. The logo of the Communist Party of Turkey consists of half a cog wheel crossed by a hammer, with a star on the top. [citation needed]
Five unequal horizontal bands; the top-most band of blue - equal to one half the width of the flag - is followed by three bands of white, red, and white, each equal to 1/12 of the width, and a bottom stripe of blue equal to one quarter of the flag width; a circle of 10 yellow, five-pointed stars is centered on the red stripe and positioned 3/8 ...
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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.