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vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Eastern_Bloc"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">1.2.1</span> <span>Eastern Bloc</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Eastern_Bloc-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Yugoslavia" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Yugoslavia"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">1.2.2</span> <span>Yugoslavia</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Yugoslavia-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Asia" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Asia"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">1.2.3</span> <span>Asia</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Asia-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Africa" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Africa"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">1.2.4</span> <span>Africa</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Africa-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-State_military_units" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#State_military_units"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">1.2.5</span> <span>State military units</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-State_military_units-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-By_states_with_limited_recognition" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#By_states_with_limited_recognition"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">1.2.6</span> <span>By states with limited recognition</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-By_states_with_limited_recognition-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-By_sports_teams" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#By_sports_teams"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">1.2.7</span> <span>By sports teams</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-By_sports_teams-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Use_by_socialist_groups" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1 vector-toc-list-item-expanded"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Use_by_socialist_groups"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">2</span> <span>Use by socialist groups</span> </div> </a> <button aria-controls="toc-Use_by_socialist_groups-sublist" class="cdx-button cdx-button--weight-quiet cdx-button--icon-only vector-toc-toggle"> <span class="vector-icon mw-ui-icon-wikimedia-expand"></span> <span>Toggle Use by socialist groups subsection</span> </button> <ul id="toc-Use_by_socialist_groups-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> <li id="toc-Armed_revolutionary_organizations" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Armed_revolutionary_organizations"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">2.1</span> <span>Armed revolutionary organizations</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Armed_revolutionary_organizations-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Political_parties_and_movements" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Political_parties_and_movements"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">2.2</span> <span>Political parties and movements</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Political_parties_and_movements-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Uses_without_socialist_symbolism" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1 vector-toc-list-item-expanded"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Uses_without_socialist_symbolism"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">3</span> <span>Uses without socialist symbolism</span> </div> </a> <button 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<ul id="toc-Assorted_Flags_and_Coats_of_Arms-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Symbol_of_animal_relief" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Symbol_of_animal_relief"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">3.3</span> <span>Symbol of animal relief</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Symbol_of_animal_relief-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Red_stars_in_labels_and_logos" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1 vector-toc-list-item-expanded"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Red_stars_in_labels_and_logos"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">4</span> <span>Red stars in labels and logos</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Red_stars_in_labels_and_logos-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Legal_status" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1 vector-toc-list-item-expanded"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Legal_status"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">5</span> <span>Legal status</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Legal_status-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Non_five-pointed_red_stars" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1 vector-toc-list-item-expanded"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Non_five-pointed_red_stars"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">6</span> <span>Non five-pointed red stars</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Non_five-pointed_red_stars-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-See_also" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1 vector-toc-list-item-expanded"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#See_also"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">7</span> <span>See also</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-See_also-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-References" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1 vector-toc-list-item-expanded"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#References"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">8</span> <span>References</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-References-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-External_links" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1 vector-toc-list-item-expanded"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#External_links"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">9</span> <span>External links</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-External_links-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </div> </div> </nav> </div> </div> <div class="mw-content-container"> <main id="content" class="mw-body"> <header class="mw-body-header vector-page-titlebar"> <nav aria-label="Contents" class="vector-toc-landmark"> <div id="vector-page-titlebar-toc" class="vector-dropdown vector-page-titlebar-toc vector-button-flush-left" > <input type="checkbox" id="vector-page-titlebar-toc-checkbox" role="button" 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href="https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%86%D8%AC%D9%85%D8%A9_%D8%AD%D9%85%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%A1" title="نجمة حمراء – Arabic" lang="ar" hreflang="ar" data-title="نجمة حمراء" data-language-autonym="العربية" data-language-local-name="Arabic" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>العربية</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ast mw-list-item"><a href="https://ast.wikipedia.org/wiki/Estrella_colorada" title="Estrella colorada – Asturian" lang="ast" hreflang="ast" data-title="Estrella colorada" data-language-autonym="Asturianu" data-language-local-name="Asturian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Asturianu</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-az mw-list-item"><a href="https://az.wikipedia.org/wiki/Q%C4%B1rm%C4%B1z%C4%B1_ulduz" title="Qırmızı ulduz – Azerbaijani" lang="az" hreflang="az" data-title="Qırmızı ulduz" data-language-autonym="Azərbaycanca" data-language-local-name="Azerbaijani" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Azərbaycanca</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-be mw-list-item"><a href="https://be.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A7%D1%8B%D1%80%D0%B2%D0%BE%D0%BD%D0%B0%D1%8F_%D0%B7%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%BA%D0%B0" title="Чырвоная зорка – Belarusian" lang="be" hreflang="be" data-title="Чырвоная зорка" data-language-autonym="Беларуская" data-language-local-name="Belarusian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Беларуская</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bg mw-list-item"><a href="https://bg.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A7%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%B2%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%B0_%D0%B7%D0%B2%D0%B5%D0%B7%D0%B4%D0%B0" title="Червена звезда – Bulgarian" lang="bg" hreflang="bg" data-title="Червена звезда" data-language-autonym="Български" data-language-local-name="Bulgarian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Български</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bs mw-list-item"><a href="https://bs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crvena_zvijezda" title="Crvena zvijezda – Bosnian" lang="bs" hreflang="bs" data-title="Crvena zvijezda" data-language-autonym="Bosanski" data-language-local-name="Bosnian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Bosanski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ca mw-list-item"><a href="https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Estrella_roja" title="Estrella roja – Catalan" lang="ca" hreflang="ca" data-title="Estrella roja" data-language-autonym="Català" data-language-local-name="Catalan" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Català</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cv mw-list-item"><a href="https://cv.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A5%C4%95%D1%80%D0%BB%C4%95_%C3%A7%C4%83%D0%BB%D1%82%C4%83%D1%80" title="Хĕрлĕ çăлтăр – Chuvash" lang="cv" hreflang="cv" data-title="Хĕрлĕ çăлтăр" data-language-autonym="Чӑвашла" data-language-local-name="Chuvash" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Чӑвашла</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cs mw-list-item"><a href="https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rud%C3%A1_hv%C4%9Bzda" title="Rudá hvězda – Czech" lang="cs" hreflang="cs" data-title="Rudá hvězda" data-language-autonym="Čeština" data-language-local-name="Czech" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Čeština</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-de mw-list-item"><a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roter_Stern" title="Roter Stern – German" lang="de" hreflang="de" data-title="Roter Stern" data-language-autonym="Deutsch" data-language-local-name="German" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Deutsch</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-es mw-list-item"><a href="https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Estrella_roja" title="Estrella roja – Spanish" lang="es" hreflang="es" data-title="Estrella roja" data-language-autonym="Español" data-language-local-name="Spanish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Español</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eo mw-list-item"><a href="https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ru%C4%9Da_stelo" title="Ruĝa stelo – Esperanto" lang="eo" hreflang="eo" data-title="Ruĝa stelo" data-language-autonym="Esperanto" data-language-local-name="Esperanto" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Esperanto</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eu mw-list-item"><a href="https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Izar_gorri_(ikurra)" title="Izar gorri (ikurra) – Basque" lang="eu" hreflang="eu" data-title="Izar gorri (ikurra)" data-language-autonym="Euskara" data-language-local-name="Basque" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Euskara</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fa mw-list-item"><a href="https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B3%D8%AA%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%87_%D8%B3%D8%B1%D8%AE" title="ستاره سرخ – Persian" lang="fa" hreflang="fa" data-title="ستاره سرخ" data-language-autonym="فارسی" data-language-local-name="Persian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>فارسی</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fr mw-list-item"><a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89toile_rouge_(symbole)" title="Étoile rouge (symbole) – French" lang="fr" hreflang="fr" data-title="Étoile rouge (symbole)" data-language-autonym="Français" data-language-local-name="French" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Français</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-gl mw-list-item"><a href="https://gl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Estrela_vermella" title="Estrela vermella – Galician" lang="gl" hreflang="gl" data-title="Estrela vermella" data-language-autonym="Galego" data-language-local-name="Galician" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Galego</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ko mw-list-item"><a href="https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EB%B6%89%EC%9D%80_%EB%B3%84" title="붉은 별 – Korean" lang="ko" hreflang="ko" data-title="붉은 별" data-language-autonym="한국어" data-language-local-name="Korean" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>한국어</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hy mw-list-item"><a href="https://hy.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D4%BF%D5%A1%D6%80%D5%B4%D5%AB%D6%80_%D5%A1%D5%BD%D5%BF%D5%B2" title="Կարմիր աստղ – Armenian" lang="hy" hreflang="hy" data-title="Կարմիր աստղ" data-language-autonym="Հայերեն" data-language-local-name="Armenian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Հայերեն</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hr mw-list-item"><a href="https://hr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crvena_zvijezda" title="Crvena zvijezda – Croatian" lang="hr" hreflang="hr" data-title="Crvena zvijezda" data-language-autonym="Hrvatski" data-language-local-name="Croatian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Hrvatski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-id mw-list-item"><a href="https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bintang_merah" title="Bintang merah – Indonesian" lang="id" hreflang="id" data-title="Bintang merah" data-language-autonym="Bahasa Indonesia" data-language-local-name="Indonesian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Bahasa 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searchaux" style="display:none">Symbol associated with communist ideology</div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1236090951">.mw-parser-output .hatnote{font-style:italic}.mw-parser-output div.hatnote{padding-left:1.6em;margin-bottom:0.5em}.mw-parser-output .hatnote i{font-style:normal}.mw-parser-output .hatnote+link+.hatnote{margin-top:-0.5em}@media print{body.ns-0 .mw-parser-output .hatnote{display:none!important}}</style><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">For other uses, see <a href="/wiki/Red_star_(disambiguation)" class="mw-disambig" title="Red star (disambiguation)">Red star (disambiguation)</a>.</div> <p class="mw-empty-elt"> </p> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Red_star.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/34/Red_star.svg/220px-Red_star.svg.png" decoding="async" width="220" height="209" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/34/Red_star.svg/330px-Red_star.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/34/Red_star.svg/440px-Red_star.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1235" data-file-height="1175" /></a><figcaption>A red five-pointed star</figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Volokolamsk_(Moscow_Oblast)_12.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/77/Volokolamsk_%28Moscow_Oblast%29_12.jpg/220px-Volokolamsk_%28Moscow_Oblast%29_12.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="293" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/77/Volokolamsk_%28Moscow_Oblast%29_12.jpg/330px-Volokolamsk_%28Moscow_Oblast%29_12.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/77/Volokolamsk_%28Moscow_Oblast%29_12.jpg/440px-Volokolamsk_%28Moscow_Oblast%29_12.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2448" data-file-height="3264" /></a><figcaption>A New Year tree with a red star in front of a church cupola in <a href="/wiki/Volokolamsk" title="Volokolamsk">Volokolamsk</a>, Russia, 2010.</figcaption></figure> <p>A <b>red star</b>, <a href="/wiki/Five-pointed_star" title="Five-pointed star">five-pointed</a> and filled, is a <a href="/wiki/Symbol" title="Symbol">symbol</a> that has often historically been associated with <a href="/wiki/Communism" title="Communism">communist ideology</a>, particularly in combination with the <a href="/wiki/Hammer_and_sickle" title="Hammer and sickle">hammer and sickle</a>, but is also used as a purely <a href="/wiki/Socialism" title="Socialism">socialist</a> symbol in the 21st century. It has been widely used in <a href="/wiki/Flag" title="Flag">flags</a>, <a href="/wiki/Nation_state" title="Nation state">state</a> <a href="/wiki/Emblem" title="Emblem">emblems</a>, <a href="/wiki/Monument" title="Monument">monuments</a>, <a href="/wiki/Ornament_(art)" title="Ornament (art)">ornaments</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Logo" title="Logo">logos</a>. </p><p>One interpretation sees the five points as representing the five fingers of the <a href="/wiki/Working_class" title="Working class">worker's</a> hand, as well as the <a href="/wiki/Continent#Number" title="Continent">five populated continents</a> (counting <a href="/wiki/Americas" title="Americas">the Americas</a> as one). A lesser-known suggestion is that in <a href="/wiki/Communist_symbolism" title="Communist symbolism">communist symbolism</a>, the five points on the star were intended to represent the five <a href="/wiki/Group_(sociology)" class="mw-redirect" title="Group (sociology)">social groups</a> that would lead Russia to communism: the <a href="/wiki/Youth" title="Youth">youth</a>, the military, the <a href="/wiki/Industrial_labour" class="mw-redirect" title="Industrial labour">industrial labourers</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Agriculture" title="Agriculture">agricultural</a> workers or <a href="/wiki/Peasant" title="Peasant">peasantry</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Intelligentsia" title="Intelligentsia">intelligentsia</a>. In Soviet heraldry, the red star symbolized the <a href="/wiki/Red_Army" title="Red Army">Red Army</a> and military service, as opposed to the hammer and sickle, which symbolized peaceful labour.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (April 2018)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p><p>Some former <a href="/wiki/Warsaw_Pact" title="Warsaw Pact">Warsaw Pact</a> nations have passed laws banning it, seeing as it represents a <a href="/wiki/Totalitarian" class="mw-redirect" title="Totalitarian">totalitarian</a> ideology.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The red star has also been used in a non-communist context and before the emergence of this movement, in symbols of countries and states since the 19th century. It appears for example on the flags of <a href="/wiki/New_Zealand" title="New Zealand">New Zealand</a> and the U.S. state of <a href="/wiki/California" title="California">California</a>. The red star has also been used as logo by private agencies and corporations, such as the oil giant <a href="/wiki/Texaco" title="Texaco">Texaco</a> and beer multinational <a href="/wiki/Heineken" title="Heineken">Heineken</a>. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="History">History</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Red_star&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: History"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:%D0%9A%D1%80%D0%B0%D1%81%D0%BD%D0%B0%D1%8F_%D0%B7%D0%B2%D0%B5%D0%B7%D0%B4%D0%B0.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/58/%D0%9A%D1%80%D0%B0%D1%81%D0%BD%D0%B0%D1%8F_%D0%B7%D0%B2%D0%B5%D0%B7%D0%B4%D0%B0.jpg/150px-%D0%9A%D1%80%D0%B0%D1%81%D0%BD%D0%B0%D1%8F_%D0%B7%D0%B2%D0%B5%D0%B7%D0%B4%D0%B0.jpg" decoding="async" width="150" height="218" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/58/%D0%9A%D1%80%D0%B0%D1%81%D0%BD%D0%B0%D1%8F_%D0%B7%D0%B2%D0%B5%D0%B7%D0%B4%D0%B0.jpg/225px-%D0%9A%D1%80%D0%B0%D1%81%D0%BD%D0%B0%D1%8F_%D0%B7%D0%B2%D0%B5%D0%B7%D0%B4%D0%B0.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/58/%D0%9A%D1%80%D0%B0%D1%81%D0%BD%D0%B0%D1%8F_%D0%B7%D0%B2%D0%B5%D0%B7%D0%B4%D0%B0.jpg/300px-%D0%9A%D1%80%D0%B0%D1%81%D0%BD%D0%B0%D1%8F_%D0%B7%D0%B2%D0%B5%D0%B7%D0%B4%D0%B0.jpg 2x" data-file-width="375" data-file-height="545" /></a><figcaption>Red Star (1908)</figcaption></figure> <p>The star's origins as a symbol of communist <a href="/wiki/Mass_movement_(politics)" class="mw-redirect" title="Mass movement (politics)">mass movements</a> dates from the time of the <a href="/wiki/Bolshevik_Revolution" class="mw-redirect" title="Bolshevik Revolution">Bolshevik Revolution</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Russian_Civil_War" title="Russian Civil War">Russian Civil War</a>, but the precise first use remains unknown. The red star as a symbol of the <a href="/wiki/Red_Army" title="Red Army">Red Army</a> was proposed by the Military Collegium for the organization of the Red Army and the creator of the Red Star emblem was the <a href="/wiki/Bolsheviks" title="Bolsheviks">Bolshevik</a> commander of the <a href="/wiki/Petersburg_Military_District_(Russian_Empire)" title="Petersburg Military District (Russian Empire)">Petrograd Military District</a>, <a href="/wiki/Konstantin_Eremeev" title="Konstantin Eremeev">Konstantin Eremeev</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> On the other hand, one account of the symbol's origin traces its roots to the Moscow troop <a href="/wiki/Garrison" title="Garrison">garrison</a> toward the end of <a href="/wiki/World_War_I" title="World War I">World War I</a>. At this time, many troops were fleeing from the Austrian and German fronts, joining the local Moscow garrison upon their arrival in the city. To distinguish the Moscow troops from the influx of retreating front-liners, officers gave out tin stars to the Moscow garrison soldiers to wear on their hats. When those troops joined the <a href="/wiki/Red_Army" title="Red Army">Red Army</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Bolshevik" class="mw-redirect" title="Bolshevik">Bolsheviks</a> they painted their tin stars red, the color of socialism, thus creating the original red star.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The red star was used in communist media as early as in 1908 with the publication of the novel <a href="/wiki/Red_Star_(novel)" title="Red Star (novel)">Red Star</a> by Bolshevik revolutionary <a href="/wiki/Alexander_Bogdanov" title="Alexander Bogdanov">Alexander Bogdanov</a>, which describes a technologically advanced communist civilization on Mars.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Another claimed origin for the red star relates to an alleged encounter between <a href="/wiki/Leon_Trotsky" title="Leon Trotsky">Leon Trotsky</a> and <a href="/wiki/Nikolai_Krylenko" title="Nikolai Krylenko">Nikolai Krylenko</a>. Krylenko, an <a href="/wiki/Esperantist" class="mw-redirect" title="Esperantist">Esperantist</a>, wore a <a href="/wiki/Esperanto_symbols" title="Esperanto symbols">green-star</a> lapel badge; Trotsky inquired as to its meaning and received an explanation that each arm of the star represented one of the five traditional continents. On hearing that, Trotsky specified that soldiers of the Red Army should wear a similar red star.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Regardless of the star's exact origin, it was incorporated into the <a href="/wiki/Red_Army" title="Red Army">Red Army</a>'s uniforms and heraldry as early as 1918.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Curtiss_JN-3.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c7/Curtiss_JN-3.jpg/220px-Curtiss_JN-3.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="154" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c7/Curtiss_JN-3.jpg/330px-Curtiss_JN-3.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c7/Curtiss_JN-3.jpg/440px-Curtiss_JN-3.jpg 2x" data-file-width="550" data-file-height="384" /></a><figcaption>U.S. Army Signal Corps Curtiss JN-3 biplanes with red star insignia, 1915</figcaption></figure> <p>Shortly before the founding of the Soviet Union, in mid-March 1916 the <a href="/wiki/U.S._Army_Signal_Corps" class="mw-redirect" title="U.S. Army Signal Corps">U.S. Army Signal Corps</a>' aviation section used the red star<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> for the national <a href="/wiki/United_States_military_aircraft_national_insignia#History" title="United States military aircraft national insignia">insignia for U.S. aircraft</a> on the aircraft of the Signal Corps' <a href="/wiki/1st_Reconnaissance_Squadron#Punitive_expedition" title="1st Reconnaissance Squadron">1st Aero Squadron</a> during the <a href="/wiki/Pancho_Villa_Expedition" title="Pancho Villa Expedition">Pancho Villa Expedition</a> to apprehend the Mexican revolutionary <a href="/wiki/Pancho_Villa" title="Pancho Villa">Pancho Villa</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Use_in_the_USSR_and_its_constituent_republics">Use in the USSR and its constituent republics</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Red_star&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Use in the USSR and its constituent republics"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The symbol became one of the most prominent of the <a href="/wiki/Soviet_Union" title="Soviet Union">Soviet Union</a>, adorning nearly all official buildings, awards and insignia. Sometimes the <a href="/wiki/Hammer_and_sickle" title="Hammer and sickle">hammer and sickle</a> appeared inside or below the star. In 1930 the Soviet Union established the <a href="/wiki/Order_of_the_Red_Star" title="Order of the Red Star">Order of the Red Star</a> and awarded its insignia to <a href="/wiki/Red_Army" title="Red Army">Red Army</a> and <a href="/wiki/Soviet_Navy" title="Soviet Navy">Soviet Navy</a> personnel for "exceptional service in the cause of the defense of the Soviet Union in both war and peace". The Soviet and <a href="/wiki/Russian_Federation" class="mw-redirect" title="Russian Federation">Russian Federation</a> military newspaper bore and bears the name <i>Red Star</i> (<a href="/wiki/Russian_language" title="Russian language">Russian</a>: <i><a href="/wiki/Krasnaya_Zvezda" title="Krasnaya Zvezda">Krasnaya Zvezda</a></i>).<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <ul class="gallery mw-gallery-traditional"> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Red_star_Red_Army_05.gif" class="mw-file-description" title="Red Army cap badge (1918-1922)"><img alt="Red Army cap badge (1918-1922)" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6d/Red_star_Red_Army_05.gif/120px-Red_star_Red_Army_05.gif" decoding="async" width="120" height="120" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6d/Red_star_Red_Army_05.gif/180px-Red_star_Red_Army_05.gif 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/6d/Red_star_Red_Army_05.gif 2x" data-file-width="204" data-file-height="204" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">Red Army cap badge (1918-1922)</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:%D0%92%D1%81%D1%82%D1%83%D0%BF%D0%B0%D0%B9%D1%82%D0%B5_%D0%B2_%D0%BA%D1%80%D0%B0%D1%81%D0%BD%D1%83%D1%8E_%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%BD%D0%BD%D0%B8%D1%86%D1%83,_1920.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Red Cavalry poster depicting a red star on a budenovka hat (1920)"><img alt="Red Cavalry poster depicting a red star on a budenovka hat (1920)" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/75/%D0%92%D1%81%D1%82%D1%83%D0%BF%D0%B0%D0%B9%D1%82%D0%B5_%D0%B2_%D0%BA%D1%80%D0%B0%D1%81%D0%BD%D1%83%D1%8E_%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%BD%D0%BD%D0%B8%D1%86%D1%83%2C_1920.jpg/85px-%D0%92%D1%81%D1%82%D1%83%D0%BF%D0%B0%D0%B9%D1%82%D0%B5_%D0%B2_%D0%BA%D1%80%D0%B0%D1%81%D0%BD%D1%83%D1%8E_%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%BD%D0%BD%D0%B8%D1%86%D1%83%2C_1920.jpg" decoding="async" width="85" height="120" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/75/%D0%92%D1%81%D1%82%D1%83%D0%BF%D0%B0%D0%B9%D1%82%D0%B5_%D0%B2_%D0%BA%D1%80%D0%B0%D1%81%D0%BD%D1%83%D1%8E_%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%BD%D0%BD%D0%B8%D1%86%D1%83%2C_1920.jpg/127px-%D0%92%D1%81%D1%82%D1%83%D0%BF%D0%B0%D0%B9%D1%82%D0%B5_%D0%B2_%D0%BA%D1%80%D0%B0%D1%81%D0%BD%D1%83%D1%8E_%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%BD%D0%BD%D0%B8%D1%86%D1%83%2C_1920.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/75/%D0%92%D1%81%D1%82%D1%83%D0%BF%D0%B0%D0%B9%D1%82%D0%B5_%D0%B2_%D0%BA%D1%80%D0%B0%D1%81%D0%BD%D1%83%D1%8E_%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%BD%D0%BD%D0%B8%D1%86%D1%83%2C_1920.jpg/170px-%D0%92%D1%81%D1%82%D1%83%D0%BF%D0%B0%D0%B9%D1%82%D0%B5_%D0%B2_%D0%BA%D1%80%D0%B0%D1%81%D0%BD%D1%83%D1%8E_%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%BD%D0%BD%D0%B8%D1%86%D1%83%2C_1920.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1440" data-file-height="2031" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">Red Cavalry poster depicting a red star on a <a href="/wiki/Budenovka" title="Budenovka">budenovka</a> hat (1920)</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Kremlin_Star.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Kremlin Star, Moscow (1937)"><img alt="Kremlin Star, Moscow (1937)" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/18/Kremlin_Star.jpg/117px-Kremlin_Star.jpg" decoding="async" width="117" height="120" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/18/Kremlin_Star.jpg/175px-Kremlin_Star.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/18/Kremlin_Star.jpg/234px-Kremlin_Star.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1170" data-file-height="1200" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext"><a href="/wiki/Kremlin_stars" title="Kremlin stars">Kremlin Star</a>, <a href="/wiki/Moscow" title="Moscow">Moscow</a> (1937)</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Orden-Pobeda-Marshal_Vasilevsky_09.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Soviet Order of Victory, USSR (1945)"><img alt="Soviet Order of Victory, USSR (1945)" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/06/Orden-Pobeda-Marshal_Vasilevsky_09.jpg/120px-Orden-Pobeda-Marshal_Vasilevsky_09.jpg" decoding="async" width="120" height="114" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/06/Orden-Pobeda-Marshal_Vasilevsky_09.jpg/180px-Orden-Pobeda-Marshal_Vasilevsky_09.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/06/Orden-Pobeda-Marshal_Vasilevsky_09.jpg/240px-Orden-Pobeda-Marshal_Vasilevsky_09.jpg 2x" data-file-width="500" data-file-height="476" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">Soviet Order of Victory, USSR (1945)</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Red_Star_Plate_by_Adamovich_1921.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Plate by Adamovich, Russian SFSR (1921)"><img alt="Plate by Adamovich, Russian SFSR (1921)" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d4/Red_Star_Plate_by_Adamovich_1921.jpg/120px-Red_Star_Plate_by_Adamovich_1921.jpg" decoding="async" width="120" height="120" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d4/Red_Star_Plate_by_Adamovich_1921.jpg/180px-Red_Star_Plate_by_Adamovich_1921.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d4/Red_Star_Plate_by_Adamovich_1921.jpg/240px-Red_Star_Plate_by_Adamovich_1921.jpg 2x" data-file-width="273" data-file-height="273" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">Plate by Adamovich, Russian SFSR (1921)</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Roundel_of_the_Soviet_Union_(1945%E2%80%931991).svg" class="mw-file-description" title="Roundel of the Soviet Air Force"><img alt="Roundel of the Soviet Air Force" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/36/Roundel_of_the_Soviet_Union_%281945%E2%80%931991%29.svg/120px-Roundel_of_the_Soviet_Union_%281945%E2%80%931991%29.svg.png" decoding="async" width="120" height="114" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/36/Roundel_of_the_Soviet_Union_%281945%E2%80%931991%29.svg/180px-Roundel_of_the_Soviet_Union_%281945%E2%80%931991%29.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/36/Roundel_of_the_Soviet_Union_%281945%E2%80%931991%29.svg/240px-Roundel_of_the_Soviet_Union_%281945%E2%80%931991%29.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1235" data-file-height="1175" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">Roundel of the <a href="/wiki/Soviet_Air_Force" class="mw-redirect" title="Soviet Air Force">Soviet Air Force</a></div> </li> </ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="As_a_holiday_ornament">As a holiday ornament</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Red_star&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: As a holiday ornament"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>During the 1930s, Soviet publications encouraged the practice of decorating a <a href="/wiki/New_Year_tree" title="New Year tree">New Year's tree</a>, known as a <i>yolka</i> (<a href="/wiki/Russian_language" title="Russian language">Russian</a>: <span lang="ru">Ёлка</span>). These trees were often decorated with a red star, a practice that has continued in <a href="/wiki/Russia" title="Russia">Russia</a> since the 1991 dissolution of the Soviet Union.<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Gallery_of_the_heraldry_of_Soviet_republics">Gallery of the heraldry of Soviet republics</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Red_star&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Gallery of the heraldry of Soviet republics"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul class="gallery mw-gallery-traditional"> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Coat_of_arms_of_the_Soviet_Union_(1956%E2%80%931991).svg" class="mw-file-description" title="Coat of arms of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics"><img alt="Coat of arms of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d9/Coat_of_arms_of_the_Soviet_Union_%281956%E2%80%931991%29.svg/116px-Coat_of_arms_of_the_Soviet_Union_%281956%E2%80%931991%29.svg.png" decoding="async" width="116" height="120" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d9/Coat_of_arms_of_the_Soviet_Union_%281956%E2%80%931991%29.svg/175px-Coat_of_arms_of_the_Soviet_Union_%281956%E2%80%931991%29.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d9/Coat_of_arms_of_the_Soviet_Union_%281956%E2%80%931991%29.svg/233px-Coat_of_arms_of_the_Soviet_Union_%281956%E2%80%931991%29.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="587" data-file-height="605" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext"><a href="/wiki/State_Emblem_of_the_Soviet_Union" title="State Emblem of the Soviet Union">Coat of arms</a> of the <a href="/wiki/Soviet_Union" title="Soviet Union">Union of Soviet Socialist Republics</a></div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Emblem_of_the_Armenian_SSR.svg" class="mw-file-description" title="Coat of arms of the Armenian Soviet Socialist Republic"><img alt="Coat of arms of the Armenian Soviet Socialist Republic" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/70/Emblem_of_the_Armenian_SSR.svg/120px-Emblem_of_the_Armenian_SSR.svg.png" decoding="async" width="120" height="120" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/70/Emblem_of_the_Armenian_SSR.svg/180px-Emblem_of_the_Armenian_SSR.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/70/Emblem_of_the_Armenian_SSR.svg/240px-Emblem_of_the_Armenian_SSR.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="605" data-file-height="604" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext"><a href="/wiki/Emblem_of_the_Armenian_Soviet_Socialist_Republic" title="Emblem of the Armenian Soviet Socialist Republic">Coat of arms</a> of the <a href="/wiki/Armenian_Soviet_Socialist_Republic" title="Armenian Soviet Socialist Republic">Armenian Soviet Socialist Republic</a></div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Emblem_of_the_Azerbaijan_SSR.svg" class="mw-file-description" title="Coat of arms of the Azerbaijan Soviet Socialist Republic"><img alt="Coat of arms of the Azerbaijan Soviet Socialist Republic" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/06/Emblem_of_the_Azerbaijan_SSR.svg/105px-Emblem_of_the_Azerbaijan_SSR.svg.png" decoding="async" width="105" height="120" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/06/Emblem_of_the_Azerbaijan_SSR.svg/158px-Emblem_of_the_Azerbaijan_SSR.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/06/Emblem_of_the_Azerbaijan_SSR.svg/210px-Emblem_of_the_Azerbaijan_SSR.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="522" data-file-height="595" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext"><a href="/wiki/Emblem_of_the_Azerbaijan_Soviet_Socialist_Republic" title="Emblem of the Azerbaijan Soviet Socialist Republic">Coat of arms</a> of the <a href="/wiki/Azerbaijan_Soviet_Socialist_Republic" title="Azerbaijan Soviet Socialist Republic">Azerbaijan Soviet Socialist Republic</a></div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Emblem_of_the_Byelorussian_Soviet_Socialist_Republic_(1981%E2%80%931991).svg" class="mw-file-description" title="Coat of arms of the Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic"><img alt="Coat of arms of the Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c7/Emblem_of_the_Byelorussian_Soviet_Socialist_Republic_%281981%E2%80%931991%29.svg/116px-Emblem_of_the_Byelorussian_Soviet_Socialist_Republic_%281981%E2%80%931991%29.svg.png" decoding="async" width="116" height="120" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c7/Emblem_of_the_Byelorussian_Soviet_Socialist_Republic_%281981%E2%80%931991%29.svg/174px-Emblem_of_the_Byelorussian_Soviet_Socialist_Republic_%281981%E2%80%931991%29.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c7/Emblem_of_the_Byelorussian_Soviet_Socialist_Republic_%281981%E2%80%931991%29.svg/232px-Emblem_of_the_Byelorussian_Soviet_Socialist_Republic_%281981%E2%80%931991%29.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="714" data-file-height="739" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext"><a href="/wiki/Emblem_of_the_Byelorussian_Soviet_Socialist_Republic" title="Emblem of the Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic">Coat of arms</a> of the <a href="/wiki/Byelorussian_Soviet_Socialist_Republic" title="Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic">Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic</a></div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Emblem_of_the_Estonian_SSR.svg" class="mw-file-description" title="Coat of arms of the Estonian Soviet Socialist Republic"><img alt="Coat of arms of the Estonian Soviet Socialist Republic" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f0/Emblem_of_the_Estonian_SSR.svg/108px-Emblem_of_the_Estonian_SSR.svg.png" decoding="async" width="108" height="120" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f0/Emblem_of_the_Estonian_SSR.svg/163px-Emblem_of_the_Estonian_SSR.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f0/Emblem_of_the_Estonian_SSR.svg/217px-Emblem_of_the_Estonian_SSR.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="736" data-file-height="814" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext"><a href="/wiki/Emblem_of_the_Estonian_Soviet_Socialist_Republic" title="Emblem of the Estonian Soviet Socialist Republic">Coat of arms</a> of the <a href="/wiki/Estonian_Soviet_Socialist_Republic" title="Estonian Soviet Socialist Republic">Estonian Soviet Socialist Republic</a></div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Emblem_of_the_Georgian_SSR.svg" class="mw-file-description" title="Coat of arms of the Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic"><img alt="Coat of arms of the Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e1/Emblem_of_the_Georgian_SSR.svg/120px-Emblem_of_the_Georgian_SSR.svg.png" decoding="async" width="120" height="120" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e1/Emblem_of_the_Georgian_SSR.svg/180px-Emblem_of_the_Georgian_SSR.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e1/Emblem_of_the_Georgian_SSR.svg/240px-Emblem_of_the_Georgian_SSR.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="560" data-file-height="560" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext"><a href="/wiki/Emblem_of_the_Georgian_Soviet_Socialist_Republic" title="Emblem of the Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic">Coat of arms</a> of the <a href="/wiki/Georgian_Soviet_Socialist_Republic" title="Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic">Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic</a></div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Emblem_of_Kazakh_SSR.svg" class="mw-file-description" title="Coat of arms of the Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic"><img alt="Coat of arms of the Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/24/Emblem_of_Kazakh_SSR.svg/105px-Emblem_of_Kazakh_SSR.svg.png" decoding="async" width="105" height="120" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/24/Emblem_of_Kazakh_SSR.svg/158px-Emblem_of_Kazakh_SSR.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/24/Emblem_of_Kazakh_SSR.svg/210px-Emblem_of_Kazakh_SSR.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="619" data-file-height="706" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext"><a href="/wiki/Emblem_of_the_Kazakh_Soviet_Socialist_Republic" title="Emblem of the Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic">Coat of arms</a> of the <a href="/wiki/Kazakh_Soviet_Socialist_Republic" title="Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic">Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic</a></div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Emblem_of_the_Kirghiz_SSR.svg" class="mw-file-description" title="Coat of arms of the Kirghiz Soviet Socialist Republic"><img alt="Coat of arms of the Kirghiz Soviet Socialist Republic" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3d/Emblem_of_the_Kirghiz_SSR.svg/102px-Emblem_of_the_Kirghiz_SSR.svg.png" decoding="async" width="102" height="120" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3d/Emblem_of_the_Kirghiz_SSR.svg/152px-Emblem_of_the_Kirghiz_SSR.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3d/Emblem_of_the_Kirghiz_SSR.svg/203px-Emblem_of_the_Kirghiz_SSR.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="486" data-file-height="574" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext"><a href="/wiki/Emblem_of_the_Kirghiz_Soviet_Socialist_Republic" title="Emblem of the Kirghiz Soviet Socialist Republic">Coat of arms</a> of the <a href="/wiki/Kirghiz_Soviet_Socialist_Republic" title="Kirghiz Soviet Socialist Republic">Kirghiz Soviet Socialist Republic</a></div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Emblem_of_the_Latvian_SSR.svg" class="mw-file-description" title="Coat of arms of the Latvian Soviet Socialist Republic"><img alt="Coat of arms of the Latvian Soviet Socialist Republic" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/55/Emblem_of_the_Latvian_SSR.svg/113px-Emblem_of_the_Latvian_SSR.svg.png" decoding="async" width="113" height="120" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/55/Emblem_of_the_Latvian_SSR.svg/170px-Emblem_of_the_Latvian_SSR.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/55/Emblem_of_the_Latvian_SSR.svg/226px-Emblem_of_the_Latvian_SSR.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="554" data-file-height="587" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext"><a href="/wiki/Emblem_of_the_Latvian_Soviet_Socialist_Republic" title="Emblem of the Latvian Soviet Socialist Republic">Coat of arms</a> of the <a href="/wiki/Latvian_Soviet_Socialist_Republic" title="Latvian Soviet Socialist Republic">Latvian Soviet Socialist Republic</a></div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Emblem_of_the_Lithuanian_SSR.svg" class="mw-file-description" title="Coat of arms of the Lithuanian Soviet Socialist Republic"><img alt="Coat of arms of the Lithuanian Soviet Socialist Republic" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/63/Emblem_of_the_Lithuanian_SSR.svg/103px-Emblem_of_the_Lithuanian_SSR.svg.png" decoding="async" width="103" height="120" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/63/Emblem_of_the_Lithuanian_SSR.svg/155px-Emblem_of_the_Lithuanian_SSR.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/63/Emblem_of_the_Lithuanian_SSR.svg/207px-Emblem_of_the_Lithuanian_SSR.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="485" data-file-height="562" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext"><a href="/wiki/Emblem_of_the_Lithuanian_Soviet_Socialist_Republic" title="Emblem of the Lithuanian Soviet Socialist Republic">Coat of arms</a> of the <a href="/wiki/Lithuanian_Soviet_Socialist_Republic" title="Lithuanian Soviet Socialist Republic">Lithuanian Soviet Socialist Republic</a></div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Emblem_of_the_Moldavian_SSR_(1981-1990).svg" class="mw-file-description" title="Coat of arms of the Moldavian Soviet Socialist Republic"><img alt="Coat of arms of the Moldavian Soviet Socialist Republic" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/82/Emblem_of_the_Moldavian_SSR_%281981-1990%29.svg/111px-Emblem_of_the_Moldavian_SSR_%281981-1990%29.svg.png" decoding="async" width="111" height="120" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/82/Emblem_of_the_Moldavian_SSR_%281981-1990%29.svg/167px-Emblem_of_the_Moldavian_SSR_%281981-1990%29.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/82/Emblem_of_the_Moldavian_SSR_%281981-1990%29.svg/223px-Emblem_of_the_Moldavian_SSR_%281981-1990%29.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="993" data-file-height="1070" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext"><a href="/wiki/Emblem_of_the_Moldavian_Soviet_Socialist_Republic" title="Emblem of the Moldavian Soviet Socialist Republic">Coat of arms</a> of the <a href="/wiki/Moldavian_Soviet_Socialist_Republic" title="Moldavian Soviet Socialist Republic">Moldavian Soviet Socialist Republic</a></div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Emblem_of_the_Russian_SFSR_(1978%E2%80%931991),_Emblem_of_Russia_(1991%E2%80%931992).svg" class="mw-file-description" title="Coat of arms of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic"><img alt="Coat of arms of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c4/Emblem_of_the_Russian_SFSR_%281978%E2%80%931991%29%2C_Emblem_of_Russia_%281991%E2%80%931992%29.svg/107px-Emblem_of_the_Russian_SFSR_%281978%E2%80%931991%29%2C_Emblem_of_Russia_%281991%E2%80%931992%29.svg.png" decoding="async" width="107" height="120" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c4/Emblem_of_the_Russian_SFSR_%281978%E2%80%931991%29%2C_Emblem_of_Russia_%281991%E2%80%931992%29.svg/161px-Emblem_of_the_Russian_SFSR_%281978%E2%80%931991%29%2C_Emblem_of_Russia_%281991%E2%80%931992%29.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c4/Emblem_of_the_Russian_SFSR_%281978%E2%80%931991%29%2C_Emblem_of_Russia_%281991%E2%80%931992%29.svg/215px-Emblem_of_the_Russian_SFSR_%281978%E2%80%931991%29%2C_Emblem_of_Russia_%281991%E2%80%931992%29.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="859" data-file-height="960" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext"><a href="/wiki/Emblem_of_the_Russian_Soviet_Federative_Socialist_Republic" title="Emblem of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic">Coat of arms</a> of the <a href="/wiki/Russian_Soviet_Federative_Socialist_Republic" title="Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic">Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic</a></div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; 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height: 150px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Emblem_of_the_Transcaucasian_SFSR_(1930-1936).svg" class="mw-file-description" title="Emblem of the Transcaucasian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic (1923-1936)"><img alt="Emblem of the Transcaucasian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic (1923-1936)" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/65/Emblem_of_the_Transcaucasian_SFSR_%281930-1936%29.svg/120px-Emblem_of_the_Transcaucasian_SFSR_%281930-1936%29.svg.png" decoding="async" width="120" height="120" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/65/Emblem_of_the_Transcaucasian_SFSR_%281930-1936%29.svg/180px-Emblem_of_the_Transcaucasian_SFSR_%281930-1936%29.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/65/Emblem_of_the_Transcaucasian_SFSR_%281930-1936%29.svg/240px-Emblem_of_the_Transcaucasian_SFSR_%281930-1936%29.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="550" data-file-height="550" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext"><a href="/wiki/Emblem_of_the_Transcaucasian_Socialist_Federative_Soviet_Republic" title="Emblem of the Transcaucasian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic">Emblem of the Transcaucasian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic</a> (1923-1936)</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; 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height: 150px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Emblem_of_the_Latvian_SSR_(1918-1920).svg" class="mw-file-description" title="Coat of arms of the Latvian Socialist Soviet Republic (1919–1920)"><img alt="Coat of arms of the Latvian Socialist Soviet Republic (1919–1920)" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d0/Emblem_of_the_Latvian_SSR_%281918-1920%29.svg/120px-Emblem_of_the_Latvian_SSR_%281918-1920%29.svg.png" decoding="async" width="120" height="120" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d0/Emblem_of_the_Latvian_SSR_%281918-1920%29.svg/180px-Emblem_of_the_Latvian_SSR_%281918-1920%29.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d0/Emblem_of_the_Latvian_SSR_%281918-1920%29.svg/240px-Emblem_of_the_Latvian_SSR_%281918-1920%29.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1441" data-file-height="1441" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">Coat of arms of the <a href="/wiki/Latvian_Socialist_Soviet_Republic" title="Latvian Socialist Soviet Republic">Latvian Socialist Soviet Republic</a> (1919–1920) </div> </li> </ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Gallery_of_Soviet_flags">Gallery of Soviet flags</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Red_star&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Gallery of Soviet flags"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul class="gallery mw-gallery-traditional"> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; 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height: 150px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Flag_of_the_Azerbaijan_Soviet_Socialist_Republic_(1952%E2%80%931991).svg" class="mw-file-description" title="Flag of the Azerbaijan Soviet Socialist Republic"><img alt="Flag of the Azerbaijan Soviet Socialist Republic" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e1/Flag_of_the_Azerbaijan_Soviet_Socialist_Republic_%281952%E2%80%931991%29.svg/120px-Flag_of_the_Azerbaijan_Soviet_Socialist_Republic_%281952%E2%80%931991%29.svg.png" decoding="async" width="120" height="60" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e1/Flag_of_the_Azerbaijan_Soviet_Socialist_Republic_%281952%E2%80%931991%29.svg/180px-Flag_of_the_Azerbaijan_Soviet_Socialist_Republic_%281952%E2%80%931991%29.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e1/Flag_of_the_Azerbaijan_Soviet_Socialist_Republic_%281952%E2%80%931991%29.svg/240px-Flag_of_the_Azerbaijan_Soviet_Socialist_Republic_%281952%E2%80%931991%29.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1200" data-file-height="600" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext"><a href="/wiki/Flag_of_the_Azerbaijan_Soviet_Socialist_Republic" title="Flag of the Azerbaijan Soviet Socialist Republic">Flag of the Azerbaijan Soviet Socialist Republic</a></div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Flag_of_the_Byelorussian_Soviet_Socialist_Republic_(1951%E2%80%931991).svg" class="mw-file-description" title="Flag of the Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic"><img alt="Flag of the Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d5/Flag_of_the_Byelorussian_Soviet_Socialist_Republic_%281951%E2%80%931991%29.svg/120px-Flag_of_the_Byelorussian_Soviet_Socialist_Republic_%281951%E2%80%931991%29.svg.png" decoding="async" width="120" height="60" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d5/Flag_of_the_Byelorussian_Soviet_Socialist_Republic_%281951%E2%80%931991%29.svg/180px-Flag_of_the_Byelorussian_Soviet_Socialist_Republic_%281951%E2%80%931991%29.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d5/Flag_of_the_Byelorussian_Soviet_Socialist_Republic_%281951%E2%80%931991%29.svg/240px-Flag_of_the_Byelorussian_Soviet_Socialist_Republic_%281951%E2%80%931991%29.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1200" data-file-height="600" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext"><a href="/wiki/Flag_of_the_Byelorussian_Soviet_Socialist_Republic" title="Flag of the Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic">Flag of the Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic</a></div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; 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height: 150px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Flag_of_the_Russian_Soviet_Federative_Socialist_Republic_(1954%E2%80%931991).svg" class="mw-file-description" title="Flag of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic"><img alt="Flag of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/27/Flag_of_the_Russian_Soviet_Federative_Socialist_Republic_%281954%E2%80%931991%29.svg/120px-Flag_of_the_Russian_Soviet_Federative_Socialist_Republic_%281954%E2%80%931991%29.svg.png" decoding="async" width="120" height="60" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/27/Flag_of_the_Russian_Soviet_Federative_Socialist_Republic_%281954%E2%80%931991%29.svg/180px-Flag_of_the_Russian_Soviet_Federative_Socialist_Republic_%281954%E2%80%931991%29.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/27/Flag_of_the_Russian_Soviet_Federative_Socialist_Republic_%281954%E2%80%931991%29.svg/240px-Flag_of_the_Russian_Soviet_Federative_Socialist_Republic_%281954%E2%80%931991%29.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1200" data-file-height="600" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext"><a href="/wiki/Flag_of_the_Russian_Soviet_Federative_Socialist_Republic" title="Flag of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic">Flag of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic</a></div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Flag_of_the_Tajik_Soviet_Socialist_Republic_(1953%E2%80%931991);_Flag_of_Tajikistan_(1991%E2%80%931992).svg" class="mw-file-description" title="Flag of the Tajik Soviet Socialist Republic"><img alt="Flag of the Tajik Soviet Socialist Republic" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1a/Flag_of_the_Tajik_Soviet_Socialist_Republic_%281953%E2%80%931991%29%3B_Flag_of_Tajikistan_%281991%E2%80%931992%29.svg/120px-Flag_of_the_Tajik_Soviet_Socialist_Republic_%281953%E2%80%931991%29%3B_Flag_of_Tajikistan_%281991%E2%80%931992%29.svg.png" decoding="async" width="120" height="60" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1a/Flag_of_the_Tajik_Soviet_Socialist_Republic_%281953%E2%80%931991%29%3B_Flag_of_Tajikistan_%281991%E2%80%931992%29.svg/180px-Flag_of_the_Tajik_Soviet_Socialist_Republic_%281953%E2%80%931991%29%3B_Flag_of_Tajikistan_%281991%E2%80%931992%29.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1a/Flag_of_the_Tajik_Soviet_Socialist_Republic_%281953%E2%80%931991%29%3B_Flag_of_Tajikistan_%281991%E2%80%931992%29.svg/240px-Flag_of_the_Tajik_Soviet_Socialist_Republic_%281953%E2%80%931991%29%3B_Flag_of_Tajikistan_%281991%E2%80%931992%29.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1200" data-file-height="600" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext"><a href="/wiki/Flag_of_the_Tajik_Soviet_Socialist_Republic" title="Flag of the Tajik Soviet Socialist Republic">Flag of the Tajik Soviet Socialist Republic</a></div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Flag_of_the_Turkmen_Soviet_Socialist_Republic_(1973%E2%80%931991);_Flag_of_Turkmenistan_(1991%E2%80%931992).svg" class="mw-file-description" title="Flag of the Turkmen Soviet Socialist Republic"><img alt="Flag of the Turkmen Soviet Socialist Republic" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/26/Flag_of_the_Turkmen_Soviet_Socialist_Republic_%281973%E2%80%931991%29%3B_Flag_of_Turkmenistan_%281991%E2%80%931992%29.svg/120px-Flag_of_the_Turkmen_Soviet_Socialist_Republic_%281973%E2%80%931991%29%3B_Flag_of_Turkmenistan_%281991%E2%80%931992%29.svg.png" decoding="async" width="120" height="60" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/26/Flag_of_the_Turkmen_Soviet_Socialist_Republic_%281973%E2%80%931991%29%3B_Flag_of_Turkmenistan_%281991%E2%80%931992%29.svg/180px-Flag_of_the_Turkmen_Soviet_Socialist_Republic_%281973%E2%80%931991%29%3B_Flag_of_Turkmenistan_%281991%E2%80%931992%29.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/26/Flag_of_the_Turkmen_Soviet_Socialist_Republic_%281973%E2%80%931991%29%3B_Flag_of_Turkmenistan_%281991%E2%80%931992%29.svg/240px-Flag_of_the_Turkmen_Soviet_Socialist_Republic_%281973%E2%80%931991%29%3B_Flag_of_Turkmenistan_%281991%E2%80%931992%29.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1200" data-file-height="600" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext"><a href="/wiki/Flag_of_the_Turkmen_Soviet_Socialist_Republic" title="Flag of the Turkmen Soviet Socialist Republic">Flag of the Turkmen Soviet Socialist Republic</a></div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Flag_of_the_Ukrainian_Soviet_Socialist_Republic_(1949%E2%80%931991).svg" class="mw-file-description" title="Flag of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic"><img alt="Flag of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Flag_of_the_Ukrainian_Soviet_Socialist_Republic_%281949%E2%80%931991%29.svg/120px-Flag_of_the_Ukrainian_Soviet_Socialist_Republic_%281949%E2%80%931991%29.svg.png" decoding="async" width="120" height="60" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Flag_of_the_Ukrainian_Soviet_Socialist_Republic_%281949%E2%80%931991%29.svg/180px-Flag_of_the_Ukrainian_Soviet_Socialist_Republic_%281949%E2%80%931991%29.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Flag_of_the_Ukrainian_Soviet_Socialist_Republic_%281949%E2%80%931991%29.svg/240px-Flag_of_the_Ukrainian_Soviet_Socialist_Republic_%281949%E2%80%931991%29.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1200" data-file-height="600" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext"><a href="/wiki/Flag_of_the_Ukrainian_Soviet_Socialist_Republic" title="Flag of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic">Flag of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic</a></div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Flag_of_the_Uzbek_Soviet_Socialist_Republic_(1952%E2%80%931991).svg" class="mw-file-description" title="Flag of the Uzbek Soviet Socialist Republic"><img alt="Flag of the Uzbek Soviet Socialist Republic" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2f/Flag_of_the_Uzbek_Soviet_Socialist_Republic_%281952%E2%80%931991%29.svg/120px-Flag_of_the_Uzbek_Soviet_Socialist_Republic_%281952%E2%80%931991%29.svg.png" decoding="async" width="120" height="60" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2f/Flag_of_the_Uzbek_Soviet_Socialist_Republic_%281952%E2%80%931991%29.svg/180px-Flag_of_the_Uzbek_Soviet_Socialist_Republic_%281952%E2%80%931991%29.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2f/Flag_of_the_Uzbek_Soviet_Socialist_Republic_%281952%E2%80%931991%29.svg/240px-Flag_of_the_Uzbek_Soviet_Socialist_Republic_%281952%E2%80%931991%29.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1200" data-file-height="600" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext"><a href="/wiki/Flag_of_the_Uzbek_Soviet_Socialist_Republic" title="Flag of the Uzbek Soviet Socialist Republic">Flag of the Uzbek Soviet Socialist Republic</a></div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Flag_of_Oryol.svg" class="mw-file-description" title="Flag of Oryol"><img alt="Flag of Oryol" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8d/Flag_of_Oryol.svg/120px-Flag_of_Oryol.svg.png" decoding="async" width="120" height="72" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8d/Flag_of_Oryol.svg/180px-Flag_of_Oryol.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8d/Flag_of_Oryol.svg/240px-Flag_of_Oryol.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="600" data-file-height="360" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">Flag of <a href="/wiki/Oryol" title="Oryol">Oryol</a></div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Flag_of_the_Karelo-Finnish_Soviet_Socialist_Republic_(1953%E2%80%931956).svg" class="mw-file-description" title="Flag of the Karelo-Finnish Soviet Socialist Republic (1940–1956)"><img alt="Flag of the Karelo-Finnish Soviet Socialist Republic (1940–1956)" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b9/Flag_of_the_Karelo-Finnish_Soviet_Socialist_Republic_%281953%E2%80%931956%29.svg/120px-Flag_of_the_Karelo-Finnish_Soviet_Socialist_Republic_%281953%E2%80%931956%29.svg.png" decoding="async" width="120" height="60" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b9/Flag_of_the_Karelo-Finnish_Soviet_Socialist_Republic_%281953%E2%80%931956%29.svg/180px-Flag_of_the_Karelo-Finnish_Soviet_Socialist_Republic_%281953%E2%80%931956%29.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b9/Flag_of_the_Karelo-Finnish_Soviet_Socialist_Republic_%281953%E2%80%931956%29.svg/240px-Flag_of_the_Karelo-Finnish_Soviet_Socialist_Republic_%281953%E2%80%931956%29.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1200" data-file-height="600" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext"><a href="/wiki/Flag_of_the_Karelo-Finnish_Soviet_Socialist_Republic" title="Flag of the Karelo-Finnish Soviet Socialist Republic">Flag of the Karelo-Finnish Soviet Socialist Republic</a> (1940–1956)</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Flag_of_the_Transcaucasian_SFSR.svg" class="mw-file-description" title="Flag of the Transcaucasian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic (1922–1936)"><img alt="Flag of the Transcaucasian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic (1922–1936)" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/03/Flag_of_the_Transcaucasian_SFSR.svg/120px-Flag_of_the_Transcaucasian_SFSR.svg.png" decoding="async" width="120" height="60" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/03/Flag_of_the_Transcaucasian_SFSR.svg/180px-Flag_of_the_Transcaucasian_SFSR.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/03/Flag_of_the_Transcaucasian_SFSR.svg/240px-Flag_of_the_Transcaucasian_SFSR.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1200" data-file-height="600" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext"><a href="/wiki/Flag_of_the_Transcaucasian_Socialist_Federative_Soviet_Republic" title="Flag of the Transcaucasian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic">Flag of the Transcaucasian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic</a> (1922–1936)</div> </li> </ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Use_in_other_socialist_countries">Use in other socialist countries</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Red_star&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Use in other socialist countries"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Following its adoption as an emblem of the Soviet Union, the red star became a symbol for communism around the world. </p><p>Several <a href="/wiki/Communist_state" title="Communist state">Communist states</a> subsequently adopted the red star symbol, often placing it on their respective flags and <a href="/wiki/Coat_of_arms" title="Coat of arms">coats of arms</a> – for example on the <a href="/wiki/Flag_of_the_Socialist_Federal_Republic_of_Yugoslavia" class="mw-redirect" title="Flag of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia">flag of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia</a>. <a href="/wiki/Separatism" title="Separatism">Separatist</a> and socialist movements also sometimes adopted the red star, as on the <a href="/wiki/Estelada_flag" class="mw-redirect" title="Estelada flag">Estelada flag</a> in the <a href="/wiki/Catalan_countries" class="mw-redirect" title="Catalan countries">Catalan countries</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Eastern_Bloc">Eastern Bloc</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Red_star&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Eastern Bloc"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The red star became a common element of the flags and heraldry of socialist states in the <a href="/wiki/Eastern_Bloc" title="Eastern Bloc">Eastern Bloc</a>, appearing in heraldry for virtually all of the countries, and on the flags of <a href="/wiki/People%27s_Republic_of_Bulgaria" title="People's Republic of Bulgaria">Bulgaria</a>, <a href="/wiki/Hungarian_People%27s_Republic" title="Hungarian People's Republic">Hungary</a>, <a href="/wiki/Socialist_Republic_of_Romania" title="Socialist Republic of Romania">Romania</a>, and <a href="/wiki/People%27s_Socialist_Republic_of_Albania" title="People's Socialist Republic of Albania">Albania</a>. From 1991 to 1995, <a href="/wiki/Belarus" title="Belarus">Belarus</a> dropped its Soviet-style emblem in favor of an emblem featuring the <a href="/wiki/Pahonia" class="mw-redirect" title="Pahonia">Pahonia</a>; the Soviet-era heraldry was re-adopted in 1995,<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and continues to be used today with minor modifications in 2012 and 2020. </p> <ul class="gallery mw-gallery-traditional"> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Flag_of_Bulgaria_(1971%E2%80%931990).svg" class="mw-file-description" title="Flag of the People's Republic of Bulgaria (1971–1990)"><img alt="Flag of the People's Republic of Bulgaria (1971–1990)" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/07/Flag_of_Bulgaria_%281971%E2%80%931990%29.svg/120px-Flag_of_Bulgaria_%281971%E2%80%931990%29.svg.png" decoding="async" width="120" height="72" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/07/Flag_of_Bulgaria_%281971%E2%80%931990%29.svg/180px-Flag_of_Bulgaria_%281971%E2%80%931990%29.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/07/Flag_of_Bulgaria_%281971%E2%80%931990%29.svg/240px-Flag_of_Bulgaria_%281971%E2%80%931990%29.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1000" data-file-height="600" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">Flag of the <a href="/wiki/People%27s_Republic_of_Bulgaria" title="People's Republic of Bulgaria">People's Republic of Bulgaria</a> (1971–1990)</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Flag_of_Romania_(1965%E2%80%931989).svg" class="mw-file-description" title="Flag of the Socialist Republic of Romania (1965–1989)"><img alt="Flag of the Socialist Republic of Romania (1965–1989)" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cb/Flag_of_Romania_%281965%E2%80%931989%29.svg/120px-Flag_of_Romania_%281965%E2%80%931989%29.svg.png" decoding="async" width="120" height="80" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cb/Flag_of_Romania_%281965%E2%80%931989%29.svg/180px-Flag_of_Romania_%281965%E2%80%931989%29.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cb/Flag_of_Romania_%281965%E2%80%931989%29.svg/240px-Flag_of_Romania_%281965%E2%80%931989%29.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">Flag of the <a href="/wiki/Socialist_Republic_of_Romania" title="Socialist Republic of Romania">Socialist Republic of Romania</a> (1965–1989)</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Flag_of_Albania_(1946%E2%80%931992).svg" class="mw-file-description" title="Flag of the People's Socialist Republic of Albania (1946–1992)"><img alt="Flag of the People's Socialist Republic of Albania (1946–1992)" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2a/Flag_of_Albania_%281946%E2%80%931992%29.svg/120px-Flag_of_Albania_%281946%E2%80%931992%29.svg.png" decoding="async" width="120" height="86" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2a/Flag_of_Albania_%281946%E2%80%931992%29.svg/180px-Flag_of_Albania_%281946%E2%80%931992%29.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2a/Flag_of_Albania_%281946%E2%80%931992%29.svg/240px-Flag_of_Albania_%281946%E2%80%931992%29.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="980" data-file-height="700" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">Flag of the <a href="/wiki/People%27s_Socialist_Republic_of_Albania" title="People's Socialist Republic of Albania">People's Socialist Republic of Albania</a> (1946–1992)</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Flag_of_Hungary_(1949-1956;_1-2_aspect_ratio).svg" class="mw-file-description" title="Flag of the Hungarian People's Republic (1949–1956)"><img alt="Flag of the Hungarian People's Republic (1949–1956)" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b5/Flag_of_Hungary_%281949-1956%3B_1-2_aspect_ratio%29.svg/120px-Flag_of_Hungary_%281949-1956%3B_1-2_aspect_ratio%29.svg.png" decoding="async" width="120" height="60" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b5/Flag_of_Hungary_%281949-1956%3B_1-2_aspect_ratio%29.svg/180px-Flag_of_Hungary_%281949-1956%3B_1-2_aspect_ratio%29.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b5/Flag_of_Hungary_%281949-1956%3B_1-2_aspect_ratio%29.svg/240px-Flag_of_Hungary_%281949-1956%3B_1-2_aspect_ratio%29.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1200" data-file-height="600" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">Flag of the <a href="/wiki/Hungarian_People%27s_Republic" title="Hungarian People's Republic">Hungarian People's Republic</a> (1949–1956)</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Coat_of_arms_of_Romania_(1965%E2%80%931989).svg" class="mw-file-description" title="Coat of arms of the Socialist Republic of Romania"><img alt="Coat of arms of the Socialist Republic of Romania" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/67/Coat_of_arms_of_Romania_%281965%E2%80%931989%29.svg/109px-Coat_of_arms_of_Romania_%281965%E2%80%931989%29.svg.png" decoding="async" width="109" height="120" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/67/Coat_of_arms_of_Romania_%281965%E2%80%931989%29.svg/164px-Coat_of_arms_of_Romania_%281965%E2%80%931989%29.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/67/Coat_of_arms_of_Romania_%281965%E2%80%931989%29.svg/218px-Coat_of_arms_of_Romania_%281965%E2%80%931989%29.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1000" data-file-height="1100" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">Coat of arms of the <a href="/wiki/Socialist_Republic_of_Romania" title="Socialist Republic of Romania">Socialist Republic of Romania</a></div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Coat_of_arms_of_Bulgaria_(1971%E2%80%931990).svg" class="mw-file-description" title="Coat of arms of the People's Republic of Bulgaria (1971–1990)"><img alt="Coat of arms of the People's Republic of Bulgaria (1971–1990)" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/89/Coat_of_arms_of_Bulgaria_%281971%E2%80%931990%29.svg/120px-Coat_of_arms_of_Bulgaria_%281971%E2%80%931990%29.svg.png" decoding="async" width="120" height="120" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/89/Coat_of_arms_of_Bulgaria_%281971%E2%80%931990%29.svg/180px-Coat_of_arms_of_Bulgaria_%281971%E2%80%931990%29.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/89/Coat_of_arms_of_Bulgaria_%281971%E2%80%931990%29.svg/240px-Coat_of_arms_of_Bulgaria_%281971%E2%80%931990%29.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="400" data-file-height="400" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">Coat of arms of the <a href="/wiki/People%27s_Republic_of_Bulgaria" title="People's Republic of Bulgaria">People's Republic of Bulgaria</a> (1971–1990)</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Coat_of_arms_of_Hungary_(1957-1990).svg" class="mw-file-description" title="Coat of arms of the Hungarian People's Republic (1957–1990)"><img alt="Coat of arms of the Hungarian People's Republic (1957–1990)" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8d/Coat_of_arms_of_Hungary_%281957-1990%29.svg/102px-Coat_of_arms_of_Hungary_%281957-1990%29.svg.png" decoding="async" width="102" height="120" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8d/Coat_of_arms_of_Hungary_%281957-1990%29.svg/152px-Coat_of_arms_of_Hungary_%281957-1990%29.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8d/Coat_of_arms_of_Hungary_%281957-1990%29.svg/203px-Coat_of_arms_of_Hungary_%281957-1990%29.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1000" data-file-height="1180" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">Coat of arms of the <a href="/wiki/Hungarian_People%27s_Republic" title="Hungarian People's Republic">Hungarian People's Republic</a> (1957–1990)</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:State_Emblem_of_the_People%27s_Republic_of_Albania.svg" class="mw-file-description" title="Coat of arms of the People's Socialist Republic of Albania"><img alt="Coat of arms of the People's Socialist Republic of Albania" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f5/State_Emblem_of_the_People%27s_Republic_of_Albania.svg/99px-State_Emblem_of_the_People%27s_Republic_of_Albania.svg.png" decoding="async" width="99" height="120" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f5/State_Emblem_of_the_People%27s_Republic_of_Albania.svg/148px-State_Emblem_of_the_People%27s_Republic_of_Albania.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f5/State_Emblem_of_the_People%27s_Republic_of_Albania.svg/197px-State_Emblem_of_the_People%27s_Republic_of_Albania.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="250" data-file-height="304" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">Coat of arms of the <a href="/wiki/People%27s_Socialist_Republic_of_Albania" title="People's Socialist Republic of Albania">People's Socialist Republic of Albania</a></div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Coat_of_arms_of_Czechoslovakia_(1961-1989).svg" class="mw-file-description" title="Coat of arms of Czechoslovak Socialist Republic (1961–1989)"><img alt="Coat of arms of Czechoslovak Socialist Republic (1961–1989)" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/74/Coat_of_arms_of_Czechoslovakia_%281961-1989%29.svg/84px-Coat_of_arms_of_Czechoslovakia_%281961-1989%29.svg.png" decoding="async" width="84" height="120" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/74/Coat_of_arms_of_Czechoslovakia_%281961-1989%29.svg/126px-Coat_of_arms_of_Czechoslovakia_%281961-1989%29.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/74/Coat_of_arms_of_Czechoslovakia_%281961-1989%29.svg/168px-Coat_of_arms_of_Czechoslovakia_%281961-1989%29.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="696" data-file-height="996" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">Coat of arms of <a href="/wiki/Czechoslovak_Socialist_Republic" title="Czechoslovak Socialist Republic">Czechoslovak Socialist Republic</a> (1961–1989)</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Coat_of_arms_of_Belarus.svg" class="mw-file-description" title="Emblem of Belarus (1995–2012)"><img alt="Emblem of Belarus (1995–2012)" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/30/Coat_of_arms_of_Belarus.svg/120px-Coat_of_arms_of_Belarus.svg.png" decoding="async" width="120" height="119" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/30/Coat_of_arms_of_Belarus.svg/180px-Coat_of_arms_of_Belarus.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/30/Coat_of_arms_of_Belarus.svg/240px-Coat_of_arms_of_Belarus.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1700" data-file-height="1690" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">Emblem of <a href="/wiki/Belarus" title="Belarus">Belarus</a> (1995–2012)</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Coat_of_arms_of_Belarus_(1995-2021).svg" class="mw-file-description" title="Emblem of Belarus (2012–2020)"><img alt="Emblem of Belarus (2012–2020)" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/10/Coat_of_arms_of_Belarus_%281995-2021%29.svg/120px-Coat_of_arms_of_Belarus_%281995-2021%29.svg.png" decoding="async" width="120" height="117" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/10/Coat_of_arms_of_Belarus_%281995-2021%29.svg/180px-Coat_of_arms_of_Belarus_%281995-2021%29.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/10/Coat_of_arms_of_Belarus_%281995-2021%29.svg/240px-Coat_of_arms_of_Belarus_%281995-2021%29.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="741" data-file-height="720" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">Emblem of <a href="/wiki/Belarus" title="Belarus">Belarus</a> (2012–2020)</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Coat_of_arms_of_Belarus_(2020%E2%80%93present).svg" class="mw-file-description" title="Emblem of Belarus (since 2020)"><img alt="Emblem of Belarus (since 2020)" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/48/Coat_of_arms_of_Belarus_%282020%E2%80%93present%29.svg/120px-Coat_of_arms_of_Belarus_%282020%E2%80%93present%29.svg.png" decoding="async" width="120" height="119" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/48/Coat_of_arms_of_Belarus_%282020%E2%80%93present%29.svg/180px-Coat_of_arms_of_Belarus_%282020%E2%80%93present%29.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/48/Coat_of_arms_of_Belarus_%282020%E2%80%93present%29.svg/240px-Coat_of_arms_of_Belarus_%282020%E2%80%93present%29.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="606" data-file-height="601" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">Emblem of <a href="/wiki/Belarus" title="Belarus">Belarus</a> (since 2020)</div> </li> </ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Yugoslavia">Yugoslavia</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Red_star&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Yugoslavia"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div><p> In former Yugoslavia the red star served not only a communist symbol, but also as a more generic symbol of resistance against <a href="/wiki/Fascism" title="Fascism">Fascism</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Nazi_occupation_of_Yugoslavia" class="mw-redirect" title="Nazi occupation of Yugoslavia">Nazi occupation of Yugoslavia</a>, as well as of opposition to its associated ethnic policies. <a href="/wiki/Yugoslav_partisans" class="mw-redirect" title="Yugoslav partisans">Tito's partisans</a> wore the red star as an identification symbol during World War II. </p><ul class="gallery mw-gallery-traditional"> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Flag_of_Yugoslavia_(1946-1992).svg" class="mw-file-description" title="Flag of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia"><img alt="Flag of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/61/Flag_of_Yugoslavia_%281946-1992%29.svg/120px-Flag_of_Yugoslavia_%281946-1992%29.svg.png" decoding="async" width="120" height="60" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/61/Flag_of_Yugoslavia_%281946-1992%29.svg/180px-Flag_of_Yugoslavia_%281946-1992%29.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/61/Flag_of_Yugoslavia_%281946-1992%29.svg/240px-Flag_of_Yugoslavia_%281946-1992%29.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1000" data-file-height="500" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext"><a href="/wiki/Flag_of_Yugoslavia" title="Flag of Yugoslavia">Flag of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia</a></div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Flag_of_Montenegro_(1946%E2%80%931993),_Flag_of_Serbia_(1947%E2%80%931992).svg" class="mw-file-description" title="Flag of the Socialist Republic of Serbia and flag of the Socialist Republic of Montenegro"><img alt="Flag of the Socialist Republic of Serbia and flag of the Socialist Republic of Montenegro" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/14/Flag_of_Montenegro_%281946%E2%80%931993%29%2C_Flag_of_Serbia_%281947%E2%80%931992%29.svg/120px-Flag_of_Montenegro_%281946%E2%80%931993%29%2C_Flag_of_Serbia_%281947%E2%80%931992%29.svg.png" decoding="async" width="120" height="60" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/14/Flag_of_Montenegro_%281946%E2%80%931993%29%2C_Flag_of_Serbia_%281947%E2%80%931992%29.svg/180px-Flag_of_Montenegro_%281946%E2%80%931993%29%2C_Flag_of_Serbia_%281947%E2%80%931992%29.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/14/Flag_of_Montenegro_%281946%E2%80%931993%29%2C_Flag_of_Serbia_%281947%E2%80%931992%29.svg/240px-Flag_of_Montenegro_%281946%E2%80%931993%29%2C_Flag_of_Serbia_%281947%E2%80%931992%29.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1000" data-file-height="500" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">Flag of the <a href="/wiki/Socialist_Republic_of_Serbia" title="Socialist Republic of Serbia">Socialist Republic of Serbia</a> and flag of the <a href="/wiki/Socialist_Republic_of_Montenegro" title="Socialist Republic of Montenegro">Socialist Republic of Montenegro</a></div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Flag_of_Slovenia_(1945%E2%80%931991).svg" class="mw-file-description" title="Flag of the Socialist Republic of Slovenia"><img alt="Flag of the Socialist Republic of Slovenia" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4a/Flag_of_Slovenia_%281945%E2%80%931991%29.svg/120px-Flag_of_Slovenia_%281945%E2%80%931991%29.svg.png" decoding="async" width="120" height="60" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4a/Flag_of_Slovenia_%281945%E2%80%931991%29.svg/180px-Flag_of_Slovenia_%281945%E2%80%931991%29.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4a/Flag_of_Slovenia_%281945%E2%80%931991%29.svg/240px-Flag_of_Slovenia_%281945%E2%80%931991%29.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1000" data-file-height="500" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">Flag of the <a href="/wiki/Socialist_Republic_of_Slovenia" title="Socialist Republic of Slovenia">Socialist Republic of Slovenia</a></div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Flag_of_the_Socialist_Republic_of_Croatia.png" class="mw-file-description" title="Flag of the Socialist Republic of Croatia"><img alt="Flag of the Socialist Republic of Croatia" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/01/Flag_of_the_Socialist_Republic_of_Croatia.png/120px-Flag_of_the_Socialist_Republic_of_Croatia.png" decoding="async" width="120" height="60" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/01/Flag_of_the_Socialist_Republic_of_Croatia.png/180px-Flag_of_the_Socialist_Republic_of_Croatia.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/01/Flag_of_the_Socialist_Republic_of_Croatia.png/240px-Flag_of_the_Socialist_Republic_of_Croatia.png 2x" data-file-width="600" data-file-height="300" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">Flag of the <a href="/wiki/Socialist_Republic_of_Croatia" title="Socialist Republic of Croatia">Socialist Republic of Croatia</a></div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Flag_of_Bosnia_and_Herzegovina_(1946%E2%80%931992).svg" class="mw-file-description" title="Flag of the Socialist Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina"><img alt="Flag of the Socialist Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0f/Flag_of_Bosnia_and_Herzegovina_%281946%E2%80%931992%29.svg/120px-Flag_of_Bosnia_and_Herzegovina_%281946%E2%80%931992%29.svg.png" decoding="async" width="120" height="60" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0f/Flag_of_Bosnia_and_Herzegovina_%281946%E2%80%931992%29.svg/180px-Flag_of_Bosnia_and_Herzegovina_%281946%E2%80%931992%29.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0f/Flag_of_Bosnia_and_Herzegovina_%281946%E2%80%931992%29.svg/240px-Flag_of_Bosnia_and_Herzegovina_%281946%E2%80%931992%29.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1000" data-file-height="500" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">Flag of the <a href="/wiki/Socialist_Republic_of_Bosnia_and_Herzegovina" title="Socialist Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina">Socialist Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina</a></div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Flag_of_the_Socialist_Republic_of_Macedonia_(1963%E2%80%931991).svg" class="mw-file-description" title="Flag of the Socialist Republic of Macedonia"><img alt="Flag of the Socialist Republic of Macedonia" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ad/Flag_of_the_Socialist_Republic_of_Macedonia_%281963%E2%80%931991%29.svg/120px-Flag_of_the_Socialist_Republic_of_Macedonia_%281963%E2%80%931991%29.svg.png" decoding="async" width="120" height="60" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ad/Flag_of_the_Socialist_Republic_of_Macedonia_%281963%E2%80%931991%29.svg/180px-Flag_of_the_Socialist_Republic_of_Macedonia_%281963%E2%80%931991%29.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ad/Flag_of_the_Socialist_Republic_of_Macedonia_%281963%E2%80%931991%29.svg/240px-Flag_of_the_Socialist_Republic_of_Macedonia_%281963%E2%80%931991%29.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1000" data-file-height="500" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">Flag of the <a href="/wiki/Socialist_Republic_of_Macedonia" title="Socialist Republic of Macedonia">Socialist Republic of Macedonia</a></div> </li> </ul> <ul class="gallery mw-gallery-traditional"> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Emblem_of_Yugoslavia_(1963%E2%80%931992).svg" class="mw-file-description" title="Coat of arms of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia"><img alt="Coat of arms of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/33/Emblem_of_Yugoslavia_%281963%E2%80%931992%29.svg/111px-Emblem_of_Yugoslavia_%281963%E2%80%931992%29.svg.png" decoding="async" width="111" height="120" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/33/Emblem_of_Yugoslavia_%281963%E2%80%931992%29.svg/167px-Emblem_of_Yugoslavia_%281963%E2%80%931992%29.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/33/Emblem_of_Yugoslavia_%281963%E2%80%931992%29.svg/223px-Emblem_of_Yugoslavia_%281963%E2%80%931992%29.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="685" data-file-height="738" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">Coat of arms of the <a href="/wiki/Socialist_Federal_Republic_of_Yugoslavia" title="Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia">Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia</a></div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Coat_of_arms_of_Serbia_(1947%E2%80%932004).svg" class="mw-file-description" title="Coat of arms of the Yugoslav Socialist Republic of Serbia"><img alt="Coat of arms of the Yugoslav Socialist Republic of Serbia" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fd/Coat_of_arms_of_Serbia_%281947%E2%80%932004%29.svg/93px-Coat_of_arms_of_Serbia_%281947%E2%80%932004%29.svg.png" decoding="async" width="93" height="120" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fd/Coat_of_arms_of_Serbia_%281947%E2%80%932004%29.svg/140px-Coat_of_arms_of_Serbia_%281947%E2%80%932004%29.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fd/Coat_of_arms_of_Serbia_%281947%E2%80%932004%29.svg/187px-Coat_of_arms_of_Serbia_%281947%E2%80%932004%29.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="569" data-file-height="731" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">Coat of arms of the Yugoslav <a href="/wiki/Socialist_Republic_of_Serbia" title="Socialist Republic of Serbia">Socialist Republic of Serbia</a></div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Coat_of_Arms_of_the_Socialist_Republic_of_Slovenia.svg" class="mw-file-description" title="Coat of arms of the Yugoslav Socialist Republic of Slovenia"><img alt="Coat of arms of the Yugoslav Socialist Republic of Slovenia" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/da/Coat_of_Arms_of_the_Socialist_Republic_of_Slovenia.svg/117px-Coat_of_Arms_of_the_Socialist_Republic_of_Slovenia.svg.png" decoding="async" width="117" height="120" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/da/Coat_of_Arms_of_the_Socialist_Republic_of_Slovenia.svg/176px-Coat_of_Arms_of_the_Socialist_Republic_of_Slovenia.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/da/Coat_of_Arms_of_the_Socialist_Republic_of_Slovenia.svg/235px-Coat_of_Arms_of_the_Socialist_Republic_of_Slovenia.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="612" data-file-height="626" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">Coat of arms of the Yugoslav <a href="/wiki/Socialist_Republic_of_Slovenia" title="Socialist Republic of Slovenia">Socialist Republic of Slovenia</a></div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Coat_of_Arms_of_the_Socialist_Republic_of_Croatia.svg" class="mw-file-description" title="Coat of arms of the Yugoslav Socialist Republic of Croatia"><img alt="Coat of arms of the Yugoslav Socialist Republic of Croatia" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c0/Coat_of_Arms_of_the_Socialist_Republic_of_Croatia.svg/93px-Coat_of_Arms_of_the_Socialist_Republic_of_Croatia.svg.png" decoding="async" width="93" height="120" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c0/Coat_of_Arms_of_the_Socialist_Republic_of_Croatia.svg/139px-Coat_of_Arms_of_the_Socialist_Republic_of_Croatia.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c0/Coat_of_Arms_of_the_Socialist_Republic_of_Croatia.svg/186px-Coat_of_Arms_of_the_Socialist_Republic_of_Croatia.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="401" data-file-height="518" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">Coat of arms of the Yugoslav <a href="/wiki/Socialist_Republic_of_Croatia" title="Socialist Republic of Croatia">Socialist Republic of Croatia</a></div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Coat_of_Arms_of_the_Socialist_Republic_of_Bosnia_and_Herzegovina.svg" class="mw-file-description" title="Coat of arms of the Yugoslav Socialist Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina"><img alt="Coat of arms of the Yugoslav Socialist Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f5/Coat_of_Arms_of_the_Socialist_Republic_of_Bosnia_and_Herzegovina.svg/100px-Coat_of_Arms_of_the_Socialist_Republic_of_Bosnia_and_Herzegovina.svg.png" decoding="async" width="100" height="120" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f5/Coat_of_Arms_of_the_Socialist_Republic_of_Bosnia_and_Herzegovina.svg/150px-Coat_of_Arms_of_the_Socialist_Republic_of_Bosnia_and_Herzegovina.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f5/Coat_of_Arms_of_the_Socialist_Republic_of_Bosnia_and_Herzegovina.svg/200px-Coat_of_Arms_of_the_Socialist_Republic_of_Bosnia_and_Herzegovina.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="406" data-file-height="488" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">Coat of arms of the Yugoslav <a href="/wiki/Socialist_Republic_of_Bosnia_and_Herzegovina" title="Socialist Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina">Socialist Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina</a></div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Coat_of_arms_of_Macedonia_(1946%E2%80%932009).svg" class="mw-file-description" title="Coat of arms of the Yugoslav Socialist Republic of Macedonia"><img alt="Coat of arms of the Yugoslav Socialist Republic of Macedonia" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/78/Coat_of_arms_of_Macedonia_%281946%E2%80%932009%29.svg/103px-Coat_of_arms_of_Macedonia_%281946%E2%80%932009%29.svg.png" decoding="async" width="103" height="120" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/78/Coat_of_arms_of_Macedonia_%281946%E2%80%932009%29.svg/154px-Coat_of_arms_of_Macedonia_%281946%E2%80%932009%29.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/78/Coat_of_arms_of_Macedonia_%281946%E2%80%932009%29.svg/205px-Coat_of_arms_of_Macedonia_%281946%E2%80%932009%29.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="248" data-file-height="290" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">Coat of arms of the Yugoslav <a href="/wiki/Socialist_Republic_of_Macedonia" title="Socialist Republic of Macedonia">Socialist Republic of Macedonia</a></div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Coat_of_arms_of_Montenegro_(1945%E2%80%931993).svg" class="mw-file-description" title="Coat of arms of the Yugoslav Socialist Republic of Montenegro"><img alt="Coat of arms of the Yugoslav Socialist Republic of Montenegro" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/ba/Coat_of_arms_of_Montenegro_%281945%E2%80%931993%29.svg/99px-Coat_of_arms_of_Montenegro_%281945%E2%80%931993%29.svg.png" decoding="async" width="99" height="120" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/ba/Coat_of_arms_of_Montenegro_%281945%E2%80%931993%29.svg/148px-Coat_of_arms_of_Montenegro_%281945%E2%80%931993%29.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/ba/Coat_of_arms_of_Montenegro_%281945%E2%80%931993%29.svg/198px-Coat_of_arms_of_Montenegro_%281945%E2%80%931993%29.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="406" data-file-height="493" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">Coat of arms of the Yugoslav <a href="/wiki/Socialist_Republic_of_Montenegro" title="Socialist Republic of Montenegro">Socialist Republic of Montenegro</a></div> </li> </ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Asia">Asia</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Red_star&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: Asia"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>As communist movements spread across Asia, some entities used a red star, while others used a yellow star (often on a red field) with the same symbolism. The <a href="/wiki/Far_Eastern_Republic" title="Far Eastern Republic">Far Eastern Republic</a> of 1920 to 1922 used a yellow star on its military uniforms, and the <a href="/wiki/Flag_of_the_People%27s_Republic_of_China" class="mw-redirect" title="Flag of the People's Republic of China">flag of the People's Republic of China</a> has five yellow stars on a red field. The <a href="/wiki/Flag_of_Vietnam" title="Flag of Vietnam">flag of Vietnam</a> also has a yellow star on a red field. Examples of communes and villages in China named after the red star include Hongxing Village in <a href="/wiki/Huilong_Township,_Hubei" title="Huilong Township, Hubei">Huilong Township, Hubei</a>, China<sup id="cite_ref-stathl_11-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-stathl-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and <a href="/wiki/Kizilto" title="Kizilto">Kizilto</a> in Xinjiang (named Hongxing Commune during the <a href="/wiki/Cultural_Revolution" title="Cultural Revolution">Cultural Revolution</a>).<sup id="cite_ref-1997xzqhakto_12-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1997xzqhakto-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <ul class="gallery mw-gallery-traditional"> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Emblem_of_North_Korea_(1948%E2%80%931993).svg" class="mw-file-description" title="Emblem of North Korea (1948–1993)"><img alt="Emblem of North Korea (1948–1993)" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6b/Emblem_of_North_Korea_%281948%E2%80%931993%29.svg/103px-Emblem_of_North_Korea_%281948%E2%80%931993%29.svg.png" decoding="async" width="103" height="120" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6b/Emblem_of_North_Korea_%281948%E2%80%931993%29.svg/154px-Emblem_of_North_Korea_%281948%E2%80%931993%29.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6b/Emblem_of_North_Korea_%281948%E2%80%931993%29.svg/205px-Emblem_of_North_Korea_%281948%E2%80%931993%29.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="330" data-file-height="386" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">Emblem of <a href="/wiki/North_Korea" title="North Korea">North Korea</a> (1948–1993)</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Emblem_of_Laos_(1975-1991).svg" class="mw-file-description" title="Emblem of Laos (1975–1992)"><img alt="Emblem of Laos (1975–1992)" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/19/Emblem_of_Laos_%281975-1991%29.svg/119px-Emblem_of_Laos_%281975-1991%29.svg.png" decoding="async" width="119" height="120" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/19/Emblem_of_Laos_%281975-1991%29.svg/178px-Emblem_of_Laos_%281975-1991%29.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/19/Emblem_of_Laos_%281975-1991%29.svg/238px-Emblem_of_Laos_%281975-1991%29.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="600" data-file-height="606" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">Emblem of <a href="/wiki/Laos" title="Laos">Laos</a> (1975–1992)</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:State_emblem_of_the_People%27s_republic_of_Mongolia_(1960%E2%80%931992).svg" class="mw-file-description" title="State emblem of the Mongolian People's Republic (1960–1992)"><img alt="State emblem of the Mongolian People's Republic (1960–1992)" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ea/State_emblem_of_the_People%27s_republic_of_Mongolia_%281960%E2%80%931992%29.svg/109px-State_emblem_of_the_People%27s_republic_of_Mongolia_%281960%E2%80%931992%29.svg.png" decoding="async" width="109" height="120" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ea/State_emblem_of_the_People%27s_republic_of_Mongolia_%281960%E2%80%931992%29.svg/164px-State_emblem_of_the_People%27s_republic_of_Mongolia_%281960%E2%80%931992%29.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ea/State_emblem_of_the_People%27s_republic_of_Mongolia_%281960%E2%80%931992%29.svg/219px-State_emblem_of_the_People%27s_republic_of_Mongolia_%281960%E2%80%931992%29.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="979" data-file-height="1073" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">State emblem of the <a href="/wiki/Mongolian_People%27s_Republic" title="Mongolian People's Republic">Mongolian People's Republic</a> (1960–1992)</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Coat_of_arms_of_South_Yemen_(1970-1990).svg" class="mw-file-description" title="Coat of arms of South Yemen (1970–1990)"><img alt="Coat of arms of South Yemen (1970–1990)" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/56/Coat_of_arms_of_South_Yemen_%281970-1990%29.svg/84px-Coat_of_arms_of_South_Yemen_%281970-1990%29.svg.png" decoding="async" width="84" height="120" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/56/Coat_of_arms_of_South_Yemen_%281970-1990%29.svg/127px-Coat_of_arms_of_South_Yemen_%281970-1990%29.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/56/Coat_of_arms_of_South_Yemen_%281970-1990%29.svg/169px-Coat_of_arms_of_South_Yemen_%281970-1990%29.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="512" data-file-height="727" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">Coat of arms of <a href="/wiki/South_Yemen" title="South Yemen">South Yemen</a> (1970–1990)</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Flag_of_Vietnam.svg" class="mw-file-description" title="Flag of Vietnam"><img alt="Flag of Vietnam" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/21/Flag_of_Vietnam.svg/120px-Flag_of_Vietnam.svg.png" decoding="async" width="120" height="80" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/21/Flag_of_Vietnam.svg/180px-Flag_of_Vietnam.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/21/Flag_of_Vietnam.svg/240px-Flag_of_Vietnam.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext"><a href="/wiki/Flag_of_Vietnam" title="Flag of Vietnam">Flag of Vietnam</a></div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Flag_of_the_People%27s_Republic_of_China.svg" class="mw-file-description" title="Flag of the People's Republic of China"><img alt="Flag of the People's Republic of China" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fa/Flag_of_the_People%27s_Republic_of_China.svg/120px-Flag_of_the_People%27s_Republic_of_China.svg.png" decoding="async" width="120" height="80" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fa/Flag_of_the_People%27s_Republic_of_China.svg/180px-Flag_of_the_People%27s_Republic_of_China.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fa/Flag_of_the_People%27s_Republic_of_China.svg/240px-Flag_of_the_People%27s_Republic_of_China.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext"><a href="/wiki/Flag_of_the_People%27s_Republic_of_China" class="mw-redirect" title="Flag of the People's Republic of China">Flag of the People's Republic of China</a></div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Flag_of_North_Korea.svg" class="mw-file-description" title="Flag of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea"><img alt="Flag of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Flag_of_North_Korea.svg/120px-Flag_of_North_Korea.svg.png" decoding="async" width="120" height="60" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Flag_of_North_Korea.svg/180px-Flag_of_North_Korea.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Flag_of_North_Korea.svg/240px-Flag_of_North_Korea.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1600" data-file-height="800" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext"><a href="/wiki/Flag_of_the_Democratic_People%27s_Republic_of_Korea" class="mw-redirect" title="Flag of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea">Flag of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea</a></div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Flag_of_the_Mongolian_People%27s_Republic_(1945%E2%80%931992).svg" class="mw-file-description" title="Flag of the Mongolian People's Republic"><img alt="Flag of the Mongolian People's Republic" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9c/Flag_of_the_Mongolian_People%27s_Republic_%281945%E2%80%931992%29.svg/120px-Flag_of_the_Mongolian_People%27s_Republic_%281945%E2%80%931992%29.svg.png" decoding="async" width="120" height="60" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9c/Flag_of_the_Mongolian_People%27s_Republic_%281945%E2%80%931992%29.svg/180px-Flag_of_the_Mongolian_People%27s_Republic_%281945%E2%80%931992%29.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9c/Flag_of_the_Mongolian_People%27s_Republic_%281945%E2%80%931992%29.svg/240px-Flag_of_the_Mongolian_People%27s_Republic_%281945%E2%80%931992%29.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1200" data-file-height="600" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">Flag of the <a href="/wiki/Mongolian_People%27s_Republic" title="Mongolian People's Republic">Mongolian People's Republic</a></div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Flag_of_South_Yemen.svg" class="mw-file-description" title="Flag of South Yemen (1967–1990)"><img alt="Flag of South Yemen (1967–1990)" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/db/Flag_of_South_Yemen.svg/120px-Flag_of_South_Yemen.svg.png" decoding="async" width="120" height="80" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/db/Flag_of_South_Yemen.svg/180px-Flag_of_South_Yemen.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/db/Flag_of_South_Yemen.svg/240px-Flag_of_South_Yemen.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="512" data-file-height="341" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext"><a href="/wiki/Flag_of_South_Yemen" title="Flag of South Yemen">Flag of South Yemen</a> (1967–1990)</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Flag_of_Afghanistan_(1980%E2%80%931987).svg" class="mw-file-description" title="Flag of the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan (1980–1987)"><img alt="Flag of the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan (1980–1987)" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2d/Flag_of_Afghanistan_%281980%E2%80%931987%29.svg/120px-Flag_of_Afghanistan_%281980%E2%80%931987%29.svg.png" decoding="async" width="120" height="60" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2d/Flag_of_Afghanistan_%281980%E2%80%931987%29.svg/180px-Flag_of_Afghanistan_%281980%E2%80%931987%29.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2d/Flag_of_Afghanistan_%281980%E2%80%931987%29.svg/240px-Flag_of_Afghanistan_%281980%E2%80%931987%29.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1200" data-file-height="600" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext"> Flag of the <a href="/wiki/Democratic_Republic_of_Afghanistan" title="Democratic Republic of Afghanistan">Democratic Republic of Afghanistan</a> (1980–1987) </div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Scan_of_red_star_covid_test.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Red star seen on a stamp on the qualification certificate of an NHS COVID-19 lateral flow test, manufactured in Xiamen, Fujian Province, China."><img alt="Red star seen on a stamp on the qualification certificate of an NHS COVID-19 lateral flow test, manufactured in Xiamen, Fujian Province, China." src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7d/Scan_of_red_star_covid_test.jpg/120px-Scan_of_red_star_covid_test.jpg" decoding="async" width="120" height="82" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7d/Scan_of_red_star_covid_test.jpg/180px-Scan_of_red_star_covid_test.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7d/Scan_of_red_star_covid_test.jpg/240px-Scan_of_red_star_covid_test.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1407" data-file-height="966" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">Red star seen on a stamp on the qualification certificate of an <a href="/wiki/National_Health_Service_(England)" title="National Health Service (England)">NHS</a> <a href="/wiki/COVID-19" title="COVID-19">COVID-19</a> <a href="/wiki/Lateral_flow_test" title="Lateral flow test">lateral flow test</a>, manufactured in <a href="/wiki/Xiamen" title="Xiamen">Xiamen</a>, <a href="/wiki/Fujian_Province" class="mw-redirect" title="Fujian Province">Fujian Province</a>, <a href="/wiki/China" title="China">China</a>.</div> </li> </ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Africa">Africa</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Red_star&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: Africa"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div><p> Socialist countries in Africa also incorporated the red or gold stars into their heraldry. This practice was also adopted by countries that formed following <a href="/wiki/Decolonization" title="Decolonization">anti-colonial</a> <a href="/wiki/Wars_of_national_liberation" title="Wars of national liberation">national liberation</a> struggles, which often involved <a href="/wiki/Marxism" title="Marxism">Marxist</a> organizations.</p><ul class="gallery mw-gallery-traditional"> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Emblem_of_Mozambique.svg" class="mw-file-description" title="Emblem of Mozambique"><img alt="Emblem of Mozambique" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/14/Emblem_of_Mozambique.svg/111px-Emblem_of_Mozambique.svg.png" decoding="async" width="111" height="120" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/14/Emblem_of_Mozambique.svg/167px-Emblem_of_Mozambique.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/14/Emblem_of_Mozambique.svg/222px-Emblem_of_Mozambique.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="741" data-file-height="800" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">Emblem of Mozambique</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Flag_of_Mozambique_(1983).svg" class="mw-file-description" title="Flag of Mozambique"><img alt="Flag of Mozambique" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e6/Flag_of_Mozambique_%281983%29.svg/120px-Flag_of_Mozambique_%281983%29.svg.png" decoding="async" width="120" height="80" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e6/Flag_of_Mozambique_%281983%29.svg/180px-Flag_of_Mozambique_%281983%29.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e6/Flag_of_Mozambique_%281983%29.svg/240px-Flag_of_Mozambique_%281983%29.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext"><a href="/wiki/Flag_of_Mozambique" title="Flag of Mozambique">Flag of Mozambique</a></div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Flag_of_Burkina_Faso.svg" class="mw-file-description" title="Flag of Burkina Faso"><img alt="Flag of Burkina Faso" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/31/Flag_of_Burkina_Faso.svg/120px-Flag_of_Burkina_Faso.svg.png" decoding="async" width="120" height="80" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/31/Flag_of_Burkina_Faso.svg/180px-Flag_of_Burkina_Faso.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/31/Flag_of_Burkina_Faso.svg/240px-Flag_of_Burkina_Faso.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext"><a href="/wiki/Flag_of_Burkina_Faso" title="Flag of Burkina Faso">Flag of Burkina Faso</a></div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Emblem_of_Benin_(1975%E2%80%931990).svg" class="mw-file-description" title="Emblem of the People's Republic of Benin"><img alt="Emblem of the People's Republic of Benin" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c8/Emblem_of_Benin_%281975%E2%80%931990%29.svg/97px-Emblem_of_Benin_%281975%E2%80%931990%29.svg.png" decoding="async" width="97" height="120" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c8/Emblem_of_Benin_%281975%E2%80%931990%29.svg/146px-Emblem_of_Benin_%281975%E2%80%931990%29.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c8/Emblem_of_Benin_%281975%E2%80%931990%29.svg/195px-Emblem_of_Benin_%281975%E2%80%931990%29.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="424" data-file-height="522" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">Emblem of the <a href="/wiki/People%27s_Republic_of_Benin" title="People's Republic of Benin">People's Republic of Benin</a></div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Flag_of_Angola.svg" class="mw-file-description" title="Flag of Angola"><img alt="Flag of Angola" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9d/Flag_of_Angola.svg/120px-Flag_of_Angola.svg.png" decoding="async" width="120" height="80" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9d/Flag_of_Angola.svg/180px-Flag_of_Angola.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9d/Flag_of_Angola.svg/240px-Flag_of_Angola.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext"><a href="/wiki/Flag_of_Angola" title="Flag of Angola">Flag of Angola</a></div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Flag_of_Ethiopia_(1987%E2%80%931991).svg" class="mw-file-description" title="Flag of Ethiopia (1987–1991)"><img alt="Flag of Ethiopia (1987–1991)" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8a/Flag_of_Ethiopia_%281987%E2%80%931991%29.svg/120px-Flag_of_Ethiopia_%281987%E2%80%931991%29.svg.png" decoding="async" width="120" height="60" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8a/Flag_of_Ethiopia_%281987%E2%80%931991%29.svg/180px-Flag_of_Ethiopia_%281987%E2%80%931991%29.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8a/Flag_of_Ethiopia_%281987%E2%80%931991%29.svg/240px-Flag_of_Ethiopia_%281987%E2%80%931991%29.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1200" data-file-height="600" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext"><a href="/wiki/Flag_of_Ethiopia" title="Flag of Ethiopia">Flag of Ethiopia</a> (1987–1991)</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Flag_of_Djibouti.svg" class="mw-file-description" title="Flag of Djibouti"><img alt="Flag of Djibouti" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/34/Flag_of_Djibouti.svg/120px-Flag_of_Djibouti.svg.png" decoding="async" width="120" height="80" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/34/Flag_of_Djibouti.svg/180px-Flag_of_Djibouti.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/34/Flag_of_Djibouti.svg/240px-Flag_of_Djibouti.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext"><a href="/wiki/Flag_of_Djibouti" title="Flag of Djibouti">Flag of Djibouti</a></div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Flag_of_Zimbabwe.svg" class="mw-file-description" title="Flag of Zimbabwe"><img alt="Flag of Zimbabwe" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6a/Flag_of_Zimbabwe.svg/120px-Flag_of_Zimbabwe.svg.png" decoding="async" width="120" height="60" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6a/Flag_of_Zimbabwe.svg/180px-Flag_of_Zimbabwe.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6a/Flag_of_Zimbabwe.svg/240px-Flag_of_Zimbabwe.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1200" data-file-height="600" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext"><a href="/wiki/Flag_of_Zimbabwe" title="Flag of Zimbabwe">Flag of Zimbabwe</a></div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Flag_of_Benin_(1975%E2%80%931990).svg" class="mw-file-description" title="Flag of Benin (1975–1990)"><img alt="Flag of Benin (1975–1990)" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/af/Flag_of_Benin_%281975%E2%80%931990%29.svg/120px-Flag_of_Benin_%281975%E2%80%931990%29.svg.png" decoding="async" width="120" height="80" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/af/Flag_of_Benin_%281975%E2%80%931990%29.svg/180px-Flag_of_Benin_%281975%E2%80%931990%29.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/af/Flag_of_Benin_%281975%E2%80%931990%29.svg/240px-Flag_of_Benin_%281975%E2%80%931990%29.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1500" data-file-height="1000" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext"><a href="/wiki/Flag_of_Benin" title="Flag of Benin">Flag of Benin</a> (1975–1990)</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Flag_of_the_People%27s_Republic_of_the_Congo.svg" class="mw-file-description" title="Flag of the People's Republic of the Congo (1969–1992)"><img alt="Flag of the People's Republic of the Congo (1969–1992)" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/42/Flag_of_the_People%27s_Republic_of_the_Congo.svg/120px-Flag_of_the_People%27s_Republic_of_the_Congo.svg.png" decoding="async" width="120" height="80" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/42/Flag_of_the_People%27s_Republic_of_the_Congo.svg/180px-Flag_of_the_People%27s_Republic_of_the_Congo.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/42/Flag_of_the_People%27s_Republic_of_the_Congo.svg/240px-Flag_of_the_People%27s_Republic_of_the_Congo.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">Flag of the <a href="/wiki/People%27s_Republic_of_the_Congo" title="People's Republic of the Congo">People's Republic of the Congo</a> (1969–1992)</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Presidential_Standard_of_Madagascar_(1976-1993).svg" class="mw-file-description" title="Presidential Standard of the DR Madagascar"><img alt="Presidential Standard of the DR Madagascar" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e3/Presidential_Standard_of_Madagascar_%281976-1993%29.svg/120px-Presidential_Standard_of_Madagascar_%281976-1993%29.svg.png" decoding="async" width="120" height="80" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e3/Presidential_Standard_of_Madagascar_%281976-1993%29.svg/180px-Presidential_Standard_of_Madagascar_%281976-1993%29.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e3/Presidential_Standard_of_Madagascar_%281976-1993%29.svg/240px-Presidential_Standard_of_Madagascar_%281976-1993%29.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">Presidential Standard of the DR <a href="/wiki/Madagascar" title="Madagascar">Madagascar</a></div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Emblem_of_the_Democratic_Republic_of_Madagascar.svg" class="mw-file-description" title="Emblem of the Democratic Republic of Madagascar"><img alt="Emblem of the Democratic Republic of Madagascar" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bf/Emblem_of_the_Democratic_Republic_of_Madagascar.svg/120px-Emblem_of_the_Democratic_Republic_of_Madagascar.svg.png" decoding="async" width="120" height="120" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bf/Emblem_of_the_Democratic_Republic_of_Madagascar.svg/180px-Emblem_of_the_Democratic_Republic_of_Madagascar.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bf/Emblem_of_the_Democratic_Republic_of_Madagascar.svg/240px-Emblem_of_the_Democratic_Republic_of_Madagascar.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1000" data-file-height="1000" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">Emblem of the <a href="/wiki/Democratic_Republic_of_Madagascar" title="Democratic Republic of Madagascar">Democratic Republic of Madagascar</a></div> </li> </ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="State_military_units">State military units</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Red_star&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: State military units"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>By March 2010, the <a href="/wiki/Russia" title="Russia">Russian</a> government readopted the Soviet red star (but now with a blue outline reflecting the three colors – white, blue and red – of the Russian flag) as a military insignia.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (October 2016)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> The <a href="/wiki/Russian_Air_Force" title="Russian Air Force">Russian Air Force</a> used this star as a roundel up to 2013, when Russia re-instated the Soviet-era red star.<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>As of 2014<sup class="plainlinks noexcerpt noprint asof-tag update" style="display:none;"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Red_star&action=edit">[update]</a></sup> the <a href="/wiki/Armed_Forces_of_Belarus" title="Armed Forces of Belarus">Armed Forces of Belarus</a> still use the old <a href="/wiki/USSR" class="mw-redirect" title="USSR">Soviet</a> red star. The coat of arms of <a href="/wiki/Armed_Forces_of_the_Republic_of_Kazakhstan" title="Armed Forces of the Republic of Kazakhstan">Armed Forces of the Republic of Kazakhstan</a> includes a modified version of the Soviet red star. </p> <ul class="gallery mw-gallery-traditional"> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Badge_of_the_Mongolian_Revolutionary_Youth_League_(1921-1924).svg" class="mw-file-description" title="Early swastika and red star emblem of the Mongolian Revolutionary Youth League, used from 1921 to 1924."><img alt="Early swastika and red star emblem of the Mongolian Revolutionary Youth League, used from 1921 to 1924." src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2c/Badge_of_the_Mongolian_Revolutionary_Youth_League_%281921-1924%29.svg/120px-Badge_of_the_Mongolian_Revolutionary_Youth_League_%281921-1924%29.svg.png" decoding="async" width="120" height="114" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2c/Badge_of_the_Mongolian_Revolutionary_Youth_League_%281921-1924%29.svg/180px-Badge_of_the_Mongolian_Revolutionary_Youth_League_%281921-1924%29.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2c/Badge_of_the_Mongolian_Revolutionary_Youth_League_%281921-1924%29.svg/240px-Badge_of_the_Mongolian_Revolutionary_Youth_League_%281921-1924%29.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="543" data-file-height="518" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">Early <a href="/wiki/Swastika" title="Swastika">swastika</a> and red star emblem of the <a href="/wiki/Mongolian_Revolutionary_Youth_League" title="Mongolian Revolutionary Youth League">Mongolian Revolutionary Youth League</a>, used from 1921 to 1924.</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Badge_of_the_Mongolian_Revolutionary_Youth_League_(1925-1942).svg" class="mw-file-description" title="Early taijitu and red star emblem of the Mongolian Revolutionary Youth League, used from 1925 to 1942."><img alt="Early taijitu and red star emblem of the Mongolian Revolutionary Youth League, used from 1925 to 1942." src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7a/Badge_of_the_Mongolian_Revolutionary_Youth_League_%281925-1942%29.svg/120px-Badge_of_the_Mongolian_Revolutionary_Youth_League_%281925-1942%29.svg.png" decoding="async" width="120" height="114" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7a/Badge_of_the_Mongolian_Revolutionary_Youth_League_%281925-1942%29.svg/180px-Badge_of_the_Mongolian_Revolutionary_Youth_League_%281925-1942%29.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7a/Badge_of_the_Mongolian_Revolutionary_Youth_League_%281925-1942%29.svg/240px-Badge_of_the_Mongolian_Revolutionary_Youth_League_%281925-1942%29.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="543" data-file-height="518" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">Early <a href="/wiki/Taijitu" title="Taijitu">taijitu</a> and red star emblem of the Mongolian Revolutionary Youth League, used from 1925 to 1942.</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Emblem_of_Mongolian_Revolutionary_Youth_League.svg" class="mw-file-description" title="Emblem of Mongolian Revolutionary Youth League."><img alt="Emblem of Mongolian Revolutionary Youth League." src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3d/Emblem_of_Mongolian_Revolutionary_Youth_League.svg/120px-Emblem_of_Mongolian_Revolutionary_Youth_League.svg.png" decoding="async" width="120" height="114" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3d/Emblem_of_Mongolian_Revolutionary_Youth_League.svg/180px-Emblem_of_Mongolian_Revolutionary_Youth_League.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3d/Emblem_of_Mongolian_Revolutionary_Youth_League.svg/240px-Emblem_of_Mongolian_Revolutionary_Youth_League.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="543" data-file-height="518" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">Emblem of Mongolian Revolutionary Youth League.</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Roundel_of_the_Soviet_Union_(1945%E2%80%931991).svg" class="mw-file-description" title="Soviet Military Air Force (1943–1991), Russian Military Air Force (1992–2010) and Belarusian Air Force roundel"><img alt="Soviet Military Air Force (1943–1991), Russian Military Air Force (1992–2010) and Belarusian Air Force roundel" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/36/Roundel_of_the_Soviet_Union_%281945%E2%80%931991%29.svg/120px-Roundel_of_the_Soviet_Union_%281945%E2%80%931991%29.svg.png" decoding="async" width="120" height="114" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/36/Roundel_of_the_Soviet_Union_%281945%E2%80%931991%29.svg/180px-Roundel_of_the_Soviet_Union_%281945%E2%80%931991%29.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/36/Roundel_of_the_Soviet_Union_%281945%E2%80%931991%29.svg/240px-Roundel_of_the_Soviet_Union_%281945%E2%80%931991%29.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1235" data-file-height="1175" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">Soviet Military Air Force (1943–1991), Russian Military Air Force (1992–2010) and <a href="/wiki/Belarusian_Air_Force" title="Belarusian Air Force">Belarusian Air Force</a> roundel</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Roundel_of_Russia.svg" class="mw-file-description" title="Russian Military Air Force roundel"><img alt="Russian Military Air Force roundel" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f6/Roundel_of_Russia.svg/120px-Roundel_of_Russia.svg.png" decoding="async" width="120" height="114" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f6/Roundel_of_Russia.svg/180px-Roundel_of_Russia.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f6/Roundel_of_Russia.svg/240px-Roundel_of_Russia.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="629" data-file-height="598" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">Russian Military Air Force roundel</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Emblem_of_the_Armed_Forces_of_Belarus.svg" class="mw-file-description" title="Symbol of the Armed Forces of the Republic of Belarus"><img alt="Symbol of the Armed Forces of the Republic of Belarus" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/41/Emblem_of_the_Armed_Forces_of_Belarus.svg/120px-Emblem_of_the_Armed_Forces_of_Belarus.svg.png" decoding="async" width="120" height="117" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/41/Emblem_of_the_Armed_Forces_of_Belarus.svg/180px-Emblem_of_the_Armed_Forces_of_Belarus.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/41/Emblem_of_the_Armed_Forces_of_Belarus.svg/240px-Emblem_of_the_Armed_Forces_of_Belarus.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="72" data-file-height="70" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">Symbol of the <a href="/wiki/Armed_forces_of_Belarus" class="mw-redirect" title="Armed forces of Belarus">Armed Forces</a> of the <a href="/wiki/Republic_of_Belarus" class="mw-redirect" title="Republic of Belarus">Republic of Belarus</a></div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Coat_of_arms_military-of-kazakhstan.svg" class="mw-file-description" title="The coat of arms of the Armed Forces of the Republic of Kazakhstan"><img alt="The coat of arms of the Armed Forces of the Republic of Kazakhstan" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/de/Coat_of_arms_military-of-kazakhstan.svg/120px-Coat_of_arms_military-of-kazakhstan.svg.png" decoding="async" width="120" height="120" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/de/Coat_of_arms_military-of-kazakhstan.svg/180px-Coat_of_arms_military-of-kazakhstan.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/de/Coat_of_arms_military-of-kazakhstan.svg/240px-Coat_of_arms_military-of-kazakhstan.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="180" data-file-height="180" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">The coat of arms of the <a href="/wiki/Armed_Forces_of_the_Republic_of_Kazakhstan" title="Armed Forces of the Republic of Kazakhstan">Armed Forces of the Republic of Kazakhstan</a></div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:China_Emblem_PLA.svg" class="mw-file-description" title="Emblem of the Chinese People's Liberation Army"><img alt="Emblem of the Chinese People's Liberation Army" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/34/China_Emblem_PLA.svg/120px-China_Emblem_PLA.svg.png" decoding="async" width="120" height="114" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/34/China_Emblem_PLA.svg/180px-China_Emblem_PLA.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/34/China_Emblem_PLA.svg/240px-China_Emblem_PLA.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="757" data-file-height="720" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">Emblem of the Chinese <a href="/wiki/People%27s_Liberation_Army" title="People's Liberation Army">People's Liberation Army</a></div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Roundel_of_South_Yemen_(1969%E2%80%931980).svg" class="mw-file-description" title="People's Republic of Yemen Air Force roundel (1967–1980)"><img alt="People's Republic of Yemen Air Force roundel (1967–1980)" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fc/Roundel_of_South_Yemen_%281969%E2%80%931980%29.svg/120px-Roundel_of_South_Yemen_%281969%E2%80%931980%29.svg.png" decoding="async" width="120" height="104" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fc/Roundel_of_South_Yemen_%281969%E2%80%931980%29.svg/180px-Roundel_of_South_Yemen_%281969%E2%80%931980%29.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fc/Roundel_of_South_Yemen_%281969%E2%80%931980%29.svg/240px-Roundel_of_South_Yemen_%281969%E2%80%931980%29.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="300" data-file-height="259" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext"><a href="/wiki/South_Yemen" title="South Yemen">People's Republic of Yemen</a> Air Force roundel (1967–1980)</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Roundel_of_South_Yemen_(1980%E2%80%931990).svg" class="mw-file-description" title="People's Republic of Yemen Air Force roundel (1980–1990)"><img alt="People's Republic of Yemen Air Force roundel (1980–1990)" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Roundel_of_South_Yemen_%281980%E2%80%931990%29.svg/120px-Roundel_of_South_Yemen_%281980%E2%80%931990%29.svg.png" decoding="async" width="120" height="120" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Roundel_of_South_Yemen_%281980%E2%80%931990%29.svg/180px-Roundel_of_South_Yemen_%281980%E2%80%931990%29.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Roundel_of_South_Yemen_%281980%E2%80%931990%29.svg/240px-Roundel_of_South_Yemen_%281980%E2%80%931990%29.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="601" data-file-height="601" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext"><a href="/wiki/South_Yemen" title="South Yemen">People's Republic of Yemen</a> Air Force roundel (1980–1990)</div> </li> </ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="By_states_with_limited_recognition">By states with limited recognition</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Red_star&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: By states with limited recognition"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><a href="/wiki/Transnistria" title="Transnistria">Transnistria</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Luhansk_People%27s_Republic" title="Luhansk People's Republic">Luhansk People's Republic</a> are <a href="/wiki/Proto-state" class="mw-redirect" title="Proto-state">proto-states</a> located in <a href="/wiki/Eastern_Europe" title="Eastern Europe">Eastern Europe</a>. Due to their historical association with the Soviet Union, they have adopted socialist imagery – including the red star – into their flags and heraldry.</p><ul class="gallery mw-gallery-traditional"> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Flag_of_Transnistria_(state).svg" class="mw-file-description" title="Flag of Transnistria"><img alt="Flag of Transnistria" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bc/Flag_of_Transnistria_%28state%29.svg/120px-Flag_of_Transnistria_%28state%29.svg.png" decoding="async" width="120" height="60" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bc/Flag_of_Transnistria_%28state%29.svg/180px-Flag_of_Transnistria_%28state%29.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bc/Flag_of_Transnistria_%28state%29.svg/240px-Flag_of_Transnistria_%28state%29.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1200" data-file-height="600" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext"><a href="/wiki/Flag_of_Transnistria" title="Flag of Transnistria">Flag of Transnistria</a></div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Coat_of_arms_of_Lugansk_People%27s_Republic.svg" class="mw-file-description" title="Coat of Arms of the Luhansk People's Republic"><img alt="Coat of Arms of the Luhansk People's Republic" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/dd/Coat_of_arms_of_Lugansk_People%27s_Republic.svg/120px-Coat_of_arms_of_Lugansk_People%27s_Republic.svg.png" decoding="async" width="120" height="110" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/dd/Coat_of_arms_of_Lugansk_People%27s_Republic.svg/180px-Coat_of_arms_of_Lugansk_People%27s_Republic.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/dd/Coat_of_arms_of_Lugansk_People%27s_Republic.svg/240px-Coat_of_arms_of_Lugansk_People%27s_Republic.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="800" data-file-height="735" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">Coat of Arms of the <a href="/wiki/Luhansk_People%27s_Republic" title="Luhansk People's Republic">Luhansk People's Republic</a></div> </li> </ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="By_sports_teams">By sports teams</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Red_star&action=edit&section=13" title="Edit section: By sports teams"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div><p> Several sporting clubs from countries ruled by communist parties used the red star as a symbol and named themselves after it, such as the Serbian club <a href="/wiki/Red_Star_Belgrade" title="Red Star Belgrade">Red Star Belgrade</a> (<a href="/wiki/Serbian_language" title="Serbian language">Serbian</a>: <span lang="sr">Црвена звезда</span> / <span title="Serbian-language text"><i lang="sr">Crvena zvezda</i></span>), the East German <a href="/wiki/Roter_Stern_Leipzig" title="Roter Stern Leipzig">Roter Stern Leipzig</a>, the Angolan <a href="/wiki/Estrela_Vermelha_do_Huambo" class="mw-redirect" title="Estrela Vermelha do Huambo">Estrela Vermelha do Huambo</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Estrela_Vermelha_(Beira)" title="Estrela Vermelha (Beira)">Estrela Vermelha</a> from <a href="/wiki/Beira,_Mozambique" title="Beira, Mozambique">Beira, Mozambique</a> or the Czechoslovak <a href="/wiki/Rud%C3%A1_Hv%C4%9Bzda_Brno" title="Rudá Hvězda Brno">Rudá Hvězda Brno</a>. Some sports teams from non-communist countries used it, such as French <a href="/wiki/Red_Star_F.C." class="mw-redirect" title="Red Star F.C.">Red Star</a> from Paris, Swiss club <a href="/wiki/FC_Red_Star_Z%C3%BCrich" title="FC Red Star Zürich">FC Red Star Zürich</a>, English <a href="/wiki/Seaham_Red_Star_F.C." title="Seaham Red Star F.C.">Seaham Red Star F.C.</a>, and even an American women's soccer club (<a href="/wiki/Chicago_Red_Stars" title="Chicago Red Stars">Chicago Red Stars</a>—though in that case the star is based on the <a href="/wiki/Flag_of_Chicago" title="Flag of Chicago">flag of Chicago</a> and not on the communist logo). The American soccer clubs <a href="/wiki/Sacramento_Republic_FC" title="Sacramento Republic FC">Sacramento Republic FC</a> and <a href="/wiki/D.C._United" title="D.C. United">D.C. United</a> also use red stars in their logos, referencing the flags of <a href="/wiki/Flag_of_California" title="Flag of California">California</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Flag_of_the_District_of_Columbia" class="mw-redirect" title="Flag of the District of Columbia">District of Columbia</a> respectively. The German rowing club <a href="/wiki/Pirnaer_Ruderverein_1872" title="Pirnaer Ruderverein 1872">Pirnaer Ruderverein 1872</a> began (and continues) to use red star since the 19th century.</p><ul class="gallery mw-gallery-traditional"> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 160px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 155px; height: 155px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Fahne_Pirnaer_Ruderverein_1872.svg" class="mw-file-description" title="Pirnaer Ruderverein 1872"><img alt="Pirnaer Ruderverein 1872" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7b/Fahne_Pirnaer_Ruderverein_1872.svg/122px-Fahne_Pirnaer_Ruderverein_1872.svg.png" decoding="async" width="122" height="125" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7b/Fahne_Pirnaer_Ruderverein_1872.svg/184px-Fahne_Pirnaer_Ruderverein_1872.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7b/Fahne_Pirnaer_Ruderverein_1872.svg/245px-Fahne_Pirnaer_Ruderverein_1872.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1532" data-file-height="1566" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext"><a href="/wiki/Pirnaer_Ruderverein_1872" title="Pirnaer Ruderverein 1872">Pirnaer Ruderverein 1872</a> </div> </li> </ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Use_by_socialist_groups">Use by socialist groups</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Red_star&action=edit&section=14" title="Edit section: Use by socialist groups"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Armed_revolutionary_organizations">Armed revolutionary organizations</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Red_star&action=edit&section=15" title="Edit section: Armed revolutionary organizations"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In 1970, the <a href="/wiki/Red_Army_Faction" title="Red Army Faction">Red Army Faction</a>, a <a href="/wiki/West_Germany" title="West Germany">West German</a> militant group, used a red star paired with a <a href="/wiki/Heckler_%26_Koch_MP5" title="Heckler & Koch MP5">Heckler & Koch MP5</a> in their highly recognizable insignia. </p><p>In 1994, the red star was included in the flag of the armed <a href="/wiki/Revolutionary" title="Revolutionary">revolutionary</a> <a href="/wiki/Zapatista_Army_of_National_Liberation" title="Zapatista Army of National Liberation">Zapatista Army of National Liberation</a> (EZLN) in <a href="/wiki/Chiapas" title="Chiapas">Chiapas</a>, <a href="/wiki/Mexico" title="Mexico">Mexico</a>. </p><p>A number of communist parties in <a href="/wiki/Turkey" title="Turkey">Turkey</a> utilize the red star. Likewise, a number of Kurdish revolutionary organizations connected to the <a href="/wiki/Kurdistan_Communities_Union" title="Kurdistan Communities Union">Kurdistan Communities Union</a> utilize the red star in their iconography. Those include the flags of the <a href="/wiki/Kurdistan_Workers%27_Party" title="Kurdistan Workers' Party">Kurdistan Workers' Party</a> and the battle flag pennants of the <a href="/wiki/People%27s_Defence_Forces" title="People's Defence Forces">People's Defence Forces</a> and <a href="/wiki/Free_Women%27s_Units" title="Free Women's Units">Free Women's Units</a> in <a href="/wiki/Turkish_Kurdistan" title="Turkish Kurdistan">Turkish Kurdistan</a>, the <a href="/wiki/People%27s_Protection_Units" class="mw-redirect" title="People's Protection Units">People's Protection Units</a> and <a href="/wiki/Women%27s_Protection_Units" title="Women's Protection Units">Women's Protection Units</a> in <a href="/wiki/Syrian_Kurdistan" title="Syrian Kurdistan">Syrian Kurdistan</a>, and the <a href="/wiki/Kurdistan_Free_Life_Party" title="Kurdistan Free Life Party">Eastern Kurdistan Units</a> and <a href="/wiki/Kurdistan_Free_Life_Party" title="Kurdistan Free Life Party">Women's Defense Forces</a> in <a href="/wiki/Iranian_Kurdistan" title="Iranian Kurdistan">Iranian Kurdistan</a>. </p><p>The <a href="/wiki/Iran" title="Iran">Iranian</a> Islamist-Socialist militant opposition group the <a href="/wiki/People%27s_Mujahedin_of_Iran" class="mw-redirect" title="People's Mujahedin of Iran">Mojahedin-e-Khalq</a> uses the red star with the rifle, sickle and the map of Iran in the background. </p> <ul class="gallery mw-gallery-traditional"> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:RAF-Logo.svg" class="mw-file-description" title="Red Army Faction (West German militant group) (RAF)"><img alt="Red Army Faction (West German militant group) (RAF)" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4d/RAF-Logo.svg/120px-RAF-Logo.svg.png" decoding="async" width="120" height="118" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4d/RAF-Logo.svg/180px-RAF-Logo.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4d/RAF-Logo.svg/240px-RAF-Logo.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="512" data-file-height="504" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext"><a href="/wiki/Red_Army_Faction" title="Red Army Faction">Red Army Faction (West German militant group)</a> (RAF)</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Ej%C3%A9rcito_Zapatista_de_Liberaci%C3%B3n_Nacional,_Flag.svg" class="mw-file-description" title="Zapatista Army of National Liberation (EZLN)"><img alt="Zapatista Army of National Liberation (EZLN)" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b4/Ej%C3%A9rcito_Zapatista_de_Liberaci%C3%B3n_Nacional%2C_Flag.svg/120px-Ej%C3%A9rcito_Zapatista_de_Liberaci%C3%B3n_Nacional%2C_Flag.svg.png" decoding="async" width="120" height="80" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b4/Ej%C3%A9rcito_Zapatista_de_Liberaci%C3%B3n_Nacional%2C_Flag.svg/180px-Ej%C3%A9rcito_Zapatista_de_Liberaci%C3%B3n_Nacional%2C_Flag.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b4/Ej%C3%A9rcito_Zapatista_de_Liberaci%C3%B3n_Nacional%2C_Flag.svg/240px-Ej%C3%A9rcito_Zapatista_de_Liberaci%C3%B3n_Nacional%2C_Flag.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="450" data-file-height="300" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext"><a href="/wiki/Zapatista_Army_of_National_Liberation" title="Zapatista Army of National Liberation">Zapatista Army of National Liberation</a> (EZLN)</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:MLKP_Badge.svg" class="mw-file-description" title="Marxist Leninist Communist Party (MLKP)"><img alt="Marxist Leninist Communist Party (MLKP)" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/13/MLKP_Badge.svg/120px-MLKP_Badge.svg.png" decoding="async" width="120" height="120" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/13/MLKP_Badge.svg/180px-MLKP_Badge.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/13/MLKP_Badge.svg/240px-MLKP_Badge.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="500" data-file-height="500" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext"><a href="/wiki/Marxist%E2%80%93Leninist_Communist_Party_(Turkey)" title="Marxist–Leninist Communist Party (Turkey)">Marxist Leninist Communist Party</a> (MLKP)</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Birle%C5%9Fik_%C3%96zg%C3%BCrl%C3%BCk_G%C3%BC%C3%A7leri_(United_Freedom_Forces)_logo.svg" class="mw-file-description" title="United Freedom Forces (BÖG)"><img alt="United Freedom Forces (BÖG)" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/14/Birle%C5%9Fik_%C3%96zg%C3%BCrl%C3%BCk_G%C3%BC%C3%A7leri_%28United_Freedom_Forces%29_logo.svg/120px-Birle%C5%9Fik_%C3%96zg%C3%BCrl%C3%BCk_G%C3%BC%C3%A7leri_%28United_Freedom_Forces%29_logo.svg.png" decoding="async" width="120" height="120" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/14/Birle%C5%9Fik_%C3%96zg%C3%BCrl%C3%BCk_G%C3%BC%C3%A7leri_%28United_Freedom_Forces%29_logo.svg/180px-Birle%C5%9Fik_%C3%96zg%C3%BCrl%C3%BCk_G%C3%BC%C3%A7leri_%28United_Freedom_Forces%29_logo.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/14/Birle%C5%9Fik_%C3%96zg%C3%BCrl%C3%BCk_G%C3%BC%C3%A7leri_%28United_Freedom_Forces%29_logo.svg/240px-Birle%C5%9Fik_%C3%96zg%C3%BCrl%C3%BCk_G%C3%BC%C3%A7leri_%28United_Freedom_Forces%29_logo.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="504" data-file-height="504" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext"><a href="/wiki/United_Freedom_Forces" title="United Freedom Forces">United Freedom Forces</a> (BÖG)</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:International_Freedom_Battalion%27s_Badge.svg" class="mw-file-description" title="International Freedom Battalion (IFB)"><img alt="International Freedom Battalion (IFB)" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/38/International_Freedom_Battalion%27s_Badge.svg/120px-International_Freedom_Battalion%27s_Badge.svg.png" decoding="async" width="120" height="120" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/38/International_Freedom_Battalion%27s_Badge.svg/180px-International_Freedom_Battalion%27s_Badge.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/38/International_Freedom_Battalion%27s_Badge.svg/240px-International_Freedom_Battalion%27s_Badge.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1000" data-file-height="1000" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext"><a href="/wiki/International_Freedom_Battalion" title="International Freedom Battalion">International Freedom Battalion</a> (IFB)</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:IRPGF_Flag.svg" class="mw-file-description" title="International Revolutionary People's Guerrilla Forces (IRPGF)"><img alt="International Revolutionary People's Guerrilla Forces (IRPGF)" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8b/IRPGF_Flag.svg/120px-IRPGF_Flag.svg.png" decoding="async" width="120" height="80" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8b/IRPGF_Flag.svg/180px-IRPGF_Flag.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8b/IRPGF_Flag.svg/240px-IRPGF_Flag.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="2700" data-file-height="1800" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext"><a href="/wiki/International_Revolutionary_People%27s_Guerrilla_Forces" title="International Revolutionary People's Guerrilla Forces">International Revolutionary People's Guerrilla Forces</a> (IRPGF)</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Flag_of_Koma_Civak%C3%AAn_Kurdistan%C3%AA.svg" class="mw-file-description" title="Kurdistan Communities Union (KCK)"><img alt="Kurdistan Communities Union (KCK)" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2e/Flag_of_Koma_Civak%C3%AAn_Kurdistan%C3%AA.svg/120px-Flag_of_Koma_Civak%C3%AAn_Kurdistan%C3%AA.svg.png" decoding="async" width="120" height="80" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2e/Flag_of_Koma_Civak%C3%AAn_Kurdistan%C3%AA.svg/180px-Flag_of_Koma_Civak%C3%AAn_Kurdistan%C3%AA.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2e/Flag_of_Koma_Civak%C3%AAn_Kurdistan%C3%AA.svg/240px-Flag_of_Koma_Civak%C3%AAn_Kurdistan%C3%AA.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="3000" data-file-height="2000" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext"><a href="/wiki/Kurdistan_Communities_Union" title="Kurdistan Communities Union">Kurdistan Communities Union</a> (KCK)</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Flag_of_Kurdistan_Workers%27_Party.svg" class="mw-file-description" title="Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK)"><img alt="Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK)" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/df/Flag_of_Kurdistan_Workers%27_Party.svg/120px-Flag_of_Kurdistan_Workers%27_Party.svg.png" decoding="async" width="120" height="80" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/df/Flag_of_Kurdistan_Workers%27_Party.svg/180px-Flag_of_Kurdistan_Workers%27_Party.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/df/Flag_of_Kurdistan_Workers%27_Party.svg/240px-Flag_of_Kurdistan_Workers%27_Party.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext"><a href="/wiki/Kurdistan_Workers%27_Party" title="Kurdistan Workers' Party">Kurdistan Workers' Party</a> (PKK)</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Flag_of_H%C3%AAz%C3%AAn_Parastina_Gel.svg" class="mw-file-description" title="People's Defence Forces (HPG)"><img alt="People's Defence Forces (HPG)" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6e/Flag_of_H%C3%AAz%C3%AAn_Parastina_Gel.svg/120px-Flag_of_H%C3%AAz%C3%AAn_Parastina_Gel.svg.png" decoding="async" width="120" height="70" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6e/Flag_of_H%C3%AAz%C3%AAn_Parastina_Gel.svg/180px-Flag_of_H%C3%AAz%C3%AAn_Parastina_Gel.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6e/Flag_of_H%C3%AAz%C3%AAn_Parastina_Gel.svg/240px-Flag_of_H%C3%AAz%C3%AAn_Parastina_Gel.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1024" data-file-height="600" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext"><a href="/wiki/People%27s_Defence_Forces" title="People's Defence Forces">People's Defence Forces</a> (HPG)</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Flag_of_YJA-Star.svg" class="mw-file-description" title="Free Women's Units (YJA-STAR)"><img alt="Free Women's Units (YJA-STAR)" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/58/Flag_of_YJA-Star.svg/120px-Flag_of_YJA-Star.svg.png" decoding="async" width="120" height="70" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/58/Flag_of_YJA-Star.svg/180px-Flag_of_YJA-Star.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/58/Flag_of_YJA-Star.svg/240px-Flag_of_YJA-Star.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1024" data-file-height="600" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext"><a href="/wiki/Free_Women%27s_Units" title="Free Women's Units">Free Women's Units</a> (YJA-STAR)</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Flag_of_the_YPS_-_Vertical.svg" class="mw-file-description" title="Civil Protection Units (YPS)"><img alt="Civil Protection Units (YPS)" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/10/Flag_of_the_YPS_-_Vertical.svg/80px-Flag_of_the_YPS_-_Vertical.svg.png" decoding="async" width="80" height="120" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/10/Flag_of_the_YPS_-_Vertical.svg/120px-Flag_of_the_YPS_-_Vertical.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/10/Flag_of_the_YPS_-_Vertical.svg/160px-Flag_of_the_YPS_-_Vertical.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="600" data-file-height="900" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext"><a href="/wiki/Civil_Protection_Units" title="Civil Protection Units">Civil Protection Units</a> (YPS)</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:People%27s_Protection_Units_Flag.svg" class="mw-file-description" title="People's Protection Units (YPG)"><img alt="People's Protection Units (YPG)" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/32/People%27s_Protection_Units_Flag.svg/120px-People%27s_Protection_Units_Flag.svg.png" decoding="async" width="120" height="70" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/32/People%27s_Protection_Units_Flag.svg/180px-People%27s_Protection_Units_Flag.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/32/People%27s_Protection_Units_Flag.svg/240px-People%27s_Protection_Units_Flag.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1024" data-file-height="600" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext"><a href="/wiki/People%27s_Protection_Units" class="mw-redirect" title="People's Protection Units">People's Protection Units</a> (YPG)</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:YPJ_Flag.svg" class="mw-file-description" title="Women's Protection Units (YPJ)"><img alt="Women's Protection Units (YPJ)" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a0/YPJ_Flag.svg/120px-YPJ_Flag.svg.png" decoding="async" width="120" height="70" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a0/YPJ_Flag.svg/180px-YPJ_Flag.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a0/YPJ_Flag.svg/240px-YPJ_Flag.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1024" data-file-height="600" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext"><a href="/wiki/Women%27s_Protection_Units" title="Women's Protection Units">Women's Protection Units</a> (YPJ)</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Flag_of_H%C3%AAz%C3%AAn_Rojhilata_Kurdistan.svg" class="mw-file-description" title="Eastern Kurdistan Units (HRK)"><img alt="Eastern Kurdistan Units (HRK)" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/98/Flag_of_H%C3%AAz%C3%AAn_Rojhilata_Kurdistan.svg/120px-Flag_of_H%C3%AAz%C3%AAn_Rojhilata_Kurdistan.svg.png" decoding="async" width="120" height="70" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/98/Flag_of_H%C3%AAz%C3%AAn_Rojhilata_Kurdistan.svg/180px-Flag_of_H%C3%AAz%C3%AAn_Rojhilata_Kurdistan.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/98/Flag_of_H%C3%AAz%C3%AAn_Rojhilata_Kurdistan.svg/240px-Flag_of_H%C3%AAz%C3%AAn_Rojhilata_Kurdistan.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1024" data-file-height="600" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext"><a href="/wiki/Eastern_Kurdistan_Units" class="mw-redirect" title="Eastern Kurdistan Units">Eastern Kurdistan Units</a> (HRK)</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:The_Official_Logo_Of_Komala.png" class="mw-file-description" title="Komalah"><img alt="Komalah" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/05/The_Official_Logo_Of_Komala.png/91px-The_Official_Logo_Of_Komala.png" decoding="async" width="91" height="120" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/05/The_Official_Logo_Of_Komala.png/136px-The_Official_Logo_Of_Komala.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/05/The_Official_Logo_Of_Komala.png 2x" data-file-width="163" data-file-height="215" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext"><a href="/wiki/Komala_Party_of_Iranian_Kurdistan" title="Komala Party of Iranian Kurdistan">Komalah</a></div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Flag_of_the_People%27s_Mujahedin_of_Iran.svg" class="mw-file-description" title="People's Mujahedin of Iran (MEK)"><img alt="People's Mujahedin of Iran (MEK)" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/64/Flag_of_the_People%27s_Mujahedin_of_Iran.svg/120px-Flag_of_the_People%27s_Mujahedin_of_Iran.svg.png" decoding="async" width="120" height="80" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/64/Flag_of_the_People%27s_Mujahedin_of_Iran.svg/180px-Flag_of_the_People%27s_Mujahedin_of_Iran.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/64/Flag_of_the_People%27s_Mujahedin_of_Iran.svg/240px-Flag_of_the_People%27s_Mujahedin_of_Iran.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext"><a href="/wiki/People%27s_Mujahedin_of_Iran" class="mw-redirect" title="People's Mujahedin of Iran">People's Mujahedin of Iran</a> (MEK)</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Flag_of_the_Combat_Organization_of_Anarcho-Communists.svg" class="mw-file-description" title="Combat Organization of Anarcho-Communists (BOAK)"><img alt="Combat Organization of Anarcho-Communists (BOAK)" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/dd/Flag_of_the_Combat_Organization_of_Anarcho-Communists.svg/120px-Flag_of_the_Combat_Organization_of_Anarcho-Communists.svg.png" decoding="async" width="120" height="68" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/dd/Flag_of_the_Combat_Organization_of_Anarcho-Communists.svg/180px-Flag_of_the_Combat_Organization_of_Anarcho-Communists.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/dd/Flag_of_the_Combat_Organization_of_Anarcho-Communists.svg/240px-Flag_of_the_Combat_Organization_of_Anarcho-Communists.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="512" data-file-height="288" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext"><a href="/wiki/Combat_Organization_of_Anarcho-Communists" title="Combat Organization of Anarcho-Communists">Combat Organization of Anarcho-Communists</a> (BOAK)</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Flag_of_the_Communist_(Maoist)_Party_of_Afghanistan.svg" class="mw-file-description" title="Flag of the Communist (Maoist) Party of Afghanistan"><img alt="Flag of the Communist (Maoist) Party of Afghanistan" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/98/Flag_of_the_Communist_%28Maoist%29_Party_of_Afghanistan.svg/120px-Flag_of_the_Communist_%28Maoist%29_Party_of_Afghanistan.svg.png" decoding="async" width="120" height="80" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/98/Flag_of_the_Communist_%28Maoist%29_Party_of_Afghanistan.svg/180px-Flag_of_the_Communist_%28Maoist%29_Party_of_Afghanistan.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/98/Flag_of_the_Communist_%28Maoist%29_Party_of_Afghanistan.svg/240px-Flag_of_the_Communist_%28Maoist%29_Party_of_Afghanistan.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">Flag of the <a href="/wiki/Communist_(Maoist)_Party_of_Afghanistan" title="Communist (Maoist) Party of Afghanistan">Communist (Maoist) Party of Afghanistan</a></div> </li> </ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Political_parties_and_movements">Political parties and movements</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Red_star&action=edit&section=16" title="Edit section: Political parties and movements"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The Brazilian leftist <a href="/wiki/Worker%27s_Party_(Brazil)" class="mw-redirect" title="Worker's Party (Brazil)">Worker's Party</a> uses a red star as its symbol with the party acronym (<a href="/wiki/Portuguese_language" title="Portuguese language">Portuguese</a>: <i lang="pt">Partido dos Trabalhadores – PT</i>) inside. <a href="/wiki/Hugo_Ch%C3%A1vez" title="Hugo Chávez">Hugo Chávez</a> and his supporters in Venezuela have used the red star in numerous symbols and logos, and have included it in the logo of the <a href="/wiki/United_Socialist_Party_of_Venezuela" title="United Socialist Party of Venezuela">United Socialist Party of Venezuela</a> (PSUV). It was also used throughout 2007 as a symbol of the "5 Engines of the <a href="/wiki/Bolivarian_Revolution" title="Bolivarian Revolution">Bolivarian Socialist Revolution</a>". It is also used by the militant South African <a href="/wiki/Shack" title="Shack">shack</a>-dweller's movement <a href="/wiki/Abahlali_baseMjondolo" title="Abahlali baseMjondolo">Abahlali baseMjondolo</a>. Like in <a href="/wiki/Latin_America" title="Latin America">Latin America</a> and Africa, several European socialist parties continue to use a star as a part of their logos. The red star is also featured prominently in the independence <a href="/wiki/Estelada#Other_Spanish_Estelades" title="Estelada">flags of various separatist movements</a> in <a href="/wiki/Spain" title="Spain">Spain</a>. </p> <ul class="gallery mw-gallery-traditional"> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:PT_(Brazil)_logo_2021.svg" class="mw-file-description" title="Symbol of Workers' Party (Brazil)"><img alt="Symbol of Workers' Party (Brazil)" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c3/PT_%28Brazil%29_logo_2021.svg/120px-PT_%28Brazil%29_logo_2021.svg.png" decoding="async" width="120" height="115" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c3/PT_%28Brazil%29_logo_2021.svg/180px-PT_%28Brazil%29_logo_2021.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c3/PT_%28Brazil%29_logo_2021.svg/240px-PT_%28Brazil%29_logo_2021.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1000" data-file-height="956" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">Symbol of <a href="/wiki/Workers%27_Party_(Brazil)" title="Workers' Party (Brazil)">Workers' Party (Brazil)</a></div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Vereinigte_Sozialistische_Partei_Venezuelas_logo.svg" class="mw-file-description" title="Symbol of the United Socialist Party of Venezuela"><img alt="Symbol of the United Socialist Party of Venezuela" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2a/Vereinigte_Sozialistische_Partei_Venezuelas_logo.svg/120px-Vereinigte_Sozialistische_Partei_Venezuelas_logo.svg.png" decoding="async" width="120" height="50" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2a/Vereinigte_Sozialistische_Partei_Venezuelas_logo.svg/180px-Vereinigte_Sozialistische_Partei_Venezuelas_logo.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2a/Vereinigte_Sozialistische_Partei_Venezuelas_logo.svg/240px-Vereinigte_Sozialistische_Partei_Venezuelas_logo.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1024" data-file-height="429" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">Symbol of the <a href="/wiki/United_Socialist_Party_of_Venezuela" title="United Socialist Party of Venezuela">United Socialist Party of Venezuela</a></div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:DYFI-flag.svg" class="mw-file-description" title="Symbol of the Democratic Youth Federation of India"><img alt="Symbol of the Democratic Youth Federation of India" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/77/DYFI-flag.svg/120px-DYFI-flag.svg.png" decoding="async" width="120" height="80" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/77/DYFI-flag.svg/180px-DYFI-flag.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/77/DYFI-flag.svg/240px-DYFI-flag.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">Symbol of the <a href="/wiki/Democratic_Youth_Federation_of_India" title="Democratic Youth Federation of India">Democratic Youth Federation of India</a></div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Logo_%E2%80%93_Parti_communiste_fran%C3%A7ais_(2018).svg" class="mw-file-description" title="Symbol of the French Communist Party"><img alt="Symbol of the French Communist Party" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9d/Logo_%E2%80%93_Parti_communiste_fran%C3%A7ais_%282018%29.svg/120px-Logo_%E2%80%93_Parti_communiste_fran%C3%A7ais_%282018%29.svg.png" decoding="async" width="120" height="82" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9d/Logo_%E2%80%93_Parti_communiste_fran%C3%A7ais_%282018%29.svg/180px-Logo_%E2%80%93_Parti_communiste_fran%C3%A7ais_%282018%29.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9d/Logo_%E2%80%93_Parti_communiste_fran%C3%A7ais_%282018%29.svg/240px-Logo_%E2%80%93_Parti_communiste_fran%C3%A7ais_%282018%29.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="107" data-file-height="73" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">Symbol of the <a href="/wiki/French_Communist_Party" title="French Communist Party">French Communist Party</a></div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Pce_2014.svg" class="mw-file-description" title="Symbol of the Communist Party of Spain"><img alt="Symbol of the Communist Party of Spain" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fe/Pce_2014.svg/120px-Pce_2014.svg.png" decoding="async" width="120" height="108" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fe/Pce_2014.svg/180px-Pce_2014.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fe/Pce_2014.svg/240px-Pce_2014.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="300" data-file-height="271" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">Symbol of the <a href="/wiki/Communist_Party_of_Spain" title="Communist Party of Spain">Communist Party of Spain</a></div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Portuguese_Communist_Party_logo.svg" class="mw-file-description" title="Symbol of the Portuguese Communist Party"><img alt="Symbol of the Portuguese Communist Party" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/27/Portuguese_Communist_Party_logo.svg/120px-Portuguese_Communist_Party_logo.svg.png" decoding="async" width="120" height="35" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/27/Portuguese_Communist_Party_logo.svg/180px-Portuguese_Communist_Party_logo.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/27/Portuguese_Communist_Party_logo.svg/240px-Portuguese_Communist_Party_logo.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="620" data-file-height="181" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">Symbol of the <a href="/wiki/Portuguese_Communist_Party" title="Portuguese Communist Party">Portuguese Communist Party</a></div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Socialistische_Partij_(nl_2006)_Logo.svg" class="mw-file-description" title="Symbol of the Dutch Socialist Party"><img alt="Symbol of the Dutch Socialist Party" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/24/Socialistische_Partij_%28nl_2006%29_Logo.svg/120px-Socialistische_Partij_%28nl_2006%29_Logo.svg.png" decoding="async" width="120" height="68" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/24/Socialistische_Partij_%28nl_2006%29_Logo.svg/180px-Socialistische_Partij_%28nl_2006%29_Logo.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/24/Socialistische_Partij_%28nl_2006%29_Logo.svg/240px-Socialistische_Partij_%28nl_2006%29_Logo.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="258" data-file-height="147" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">Symbol of the Dutch <a href="/wiki/Socialist_Party_(Netherlands)" title="Socialist Party (Netherlands)">Socialist Party</a></div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:PVDAPTB-2022-icon-profile01.png" class="mw-file-description" title="Symbol of the Workers' Party of Belgium"><img alt="Symbol of the Workers' Party of Belgium" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e5/PVDAPTB-2022-icon-profile01.png/120px-PVDAPTB-2022-icon-profile01.png" decoding="async" width="120" height="120" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e5/PVDAPTB-2022-icon-profile01.png/180px-PVDAPTB-2022-icon-profile01.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e5/PVDAPTB-2022-icon-profile01.png/240px-PVDAPTB-2022-icon-profile01.png 2x" data-file-width="1200" data-file-height="1200" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">Symbol of the <a href="/wiki/Workers%27_Party_of_Belgium" title="Workers' Party of Belgium">Workers' Party of Belgium</a></div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Logo_of_The_Left_(Slovenia).svg" class="mw-file-description" title="Symbol of the Slovenian party The Left"><img alt="Symbol of the Slovenian party The Left" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/22/Logo_of_The_Left_%28Slovenia%29.svg/120px-Logo_of_The_Left_%28Slovenia%29.svg.png" decoding="async" width="120" height="43" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/22/Logo_of_The_Left_%28Slovenia%29.svg/180px-Logo_of_The_Left_%28Slovenia%29.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/22/Logo_of_The_Left_%28Slovenia%29.svg/240px-Logo_of_The_Left_%28Slovenia%29.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="368" data-file-height="133" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">Symbol of the Slovenian party <a href="/wiki/The_Left_(Slovenia)" title="The Left (Slovenia)">The Left</a></div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Potere_al_Popolo!_-_Logo_(Italy,_2017).svg" class="mw-file-description" title="Symbol of the Italian party Power to the People"><img alt="Symbol of the Italian party Power to the People" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/28/Potere_al_Popolo%21_-_Logo_%28Italy%2C_2017%29.svg/120px-Potere_al_Popolo%21_-_Logo_%28Italy%2C_2017%29.svg.png" decoding="async" width="120" height="120" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/28/Potere_al_Popolo%21_-_Logo_%28Italy%2C_2017%29.svg/180px-Potere_al_Popolo%21_-_Logo_%28Italy%2C_2017%29.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/28/Potere_al_Popolo%21_-_Logo_%28Italy%2C_2017%29.svg/240px-Potere_al_Popolo%21_-_Logo_%28Italy%2C_2017%29.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="400" data-file-height="400" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">Symbol of the Italian party <a href="/wiki/Power_to_the_People_(Italy)" title="Power to the People (Italy)">Power to the People</a></div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:R%C3%B8dt_logo_(bokm%C3%A5l).svg" class="mw-file-description" title="Symbol of the Norwegian Red Party"><img alt="Symbol of the Norwegian Red Party" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/14/R%C3%B8dt_logo_%28bokm%C3%A5l%29.svg/111px-R%C3%B8dt_logo_%28bokm%C3%A5l%29.svg.png" decoding="async" width="111" height="120" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/14/R%C3%B8dt_logo_%28bokm%C3%A5l%29.svg/166px-R%C3%B8dt_logo_%28bokm%C3%A5l%29.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/14/R%C3%B8dt_logo_%28bokm%C3%A5l%29.svg/222px-R%C3%B8dt_logo_%28bokm%C3%A5l%29.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="680" data-file-height="736" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">Symbol of the Norwegian <a href="/wiki/Red_Party_(Norway)" title="Red Party (Norway)">Red Party</a></div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Uplogo2transparente-sinnombre.png" class="mw-file-description" title="Symbol of the Ecuadorian party Popular Unity"><img alt="Symbol of the Ecuadorian party Popular Unity" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/43/Uplogo2transparente-sinnombre.png/120px-Uplogo2transparente-sinnombre.png" decoding="async" width="120" height="114" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/43/Uplogo2transparente-sinnombre.png/180px-Uplogo2transparente-sinnombre.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/43/Uplogo2transparente-sinnombre.png/240px-Uplogo2transparente-sinnombre.png 2x" data-file-width="681" data-file-height="648" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">Symbol of the Ecuadorian party <a href="/wiki/Popular_Unity_(Ecuador)" title="Popular Unity (Ecuador)">Popular Unity</a></div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Party_of_Socialists_of_the_Republic_of_Moldova_logo.png" class="mw-file-description" title="Symbol of the Party of Socialists of the Republic of Moldova"><img alt="Symbol of the Party of Socialists of the Republic of Moldova" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fc/Party_of_Socialists_of_the_Republic_of_Moldova_logo.png/120px-Party_of_Socialists_of_the_Republic_of_Moldova_logo.png" decoding="async" width="120" height="118" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fc/Party_of_Socialists_of_the_Republic_of_Moldova_logo.png/180px-Party_of_Socialists_of_the_Republic_of_Moldova_logo.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fc/Party_of_Socialists_of_the_Republic_of_Moldova_logo.png/240px-Party_of_Socialists_of_the_Republic_of_Moldova_logo.png 2x" data-file-width="600" data-file-height="591" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">Symbol of the <a href="/wiki/Party_of_Socialists_of_the_Republic_of_Moldova" title="Party of Socialists of the Republic of Moldova">Party of Socialists of the Republic of Moldova</a></div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Abahlali_baseMjondolo_Logo.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Symbol of the Abahlali baseMjondolo"><img alt="Symbol of the Abahlali baseMjondolo" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b2/Abahlali_baseMjondolo_Logo.jpg/120px-Abahlali_baseMjondolo_Logo.jpg" decoding="async" width="120" height="120" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b2/Abahlali_baseMjondolo_Logo.jpg/180px-Abahlali_baseMjondolo_Logo.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b2/Abahlali_baseMjondolo_Logo.jpg/240px-Abahlali_baseMjondolo_Logo.jpg 2x" data-file-width="350" data-file-height="350" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">Symbol of the <a href="/wiki/Abahlali_baseMjondolo" title="Abahlali baseMjondolo">Abahlali baseMjondolo</a></div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Bandera_Andaluc%C3%ADa_Libre.svg" class="mw-file-description" title="Flag of the Andalusian Nation party"><img alt="Flag of the Andalusian Nation party" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d2/Bandera_Andaluc%C3%ADa_Libre.svg/120px-Bandera_Andaluc%C3%ADa_Libre.svg.png" decoding="async" width="120" height="80" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d2/Bandera_Andaluc%C3%ADa_Libre.svg/180px-Bandera_Andaluc%C3%ADa_Libre.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d2/Bandera_Andaluc%C3%ADa_Libre.svg/240px-Bandera_Andaluc%C3%ADa_Libre.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">Flag of the <a href="/wiki/Andalusian_Nation" title="Andalusian Nation">Andalusian Nation</a> party</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Flag_of_Castile_(with_star).svg" class="mw-file-description" title="Castilian nationalist flag"><img alt="Castilian nationalist flag" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f8/Flag_of_Castile_%28with_star%29.svg/120px-Flag_of_Castile_%28with_star%29.svg.png" decoding="async" width="120" height="80" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f8/Flag_of_Castile_%28with_star%29.svg/180px-Flag_of_Castile_%28with_star%29.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f8/Flag_of_Castile_%28with_star%29.svg/240px-Flag_of_Castile_%28with_star%29.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1206" data-file-height="800" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext"><a href="/wiki/Castilian_nationalism" title="Castilian nationalism">Castilian nationalist</a> flag</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Bandeira_galega_socialista.svg" class="mw-file-description" title="Galician nationalist flag Estreleira"><img alt="Galician nationalist flag Estreleira" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/03/Bandeira_galega_socialista.svg/120px-Bandeira_galega_socialista.svg.png" decoding="async" width="120" height="80" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/03/Bandeira_galega_socialista.svg/180px-Bandeira_galega_socialista.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/03/Bandeira_galega_socialista.svg/240px-Bandeira_galega_socialista.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext"><a href="/wiki/Galician_nationalism" title="Galician nationalism">Galician nationalist</a> flag <a href="/wiki/Estreleira" title="Estreleira">Estreleira</a></div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Estelada_roja.svg" class="mw-file-description" title="Catalan pro-independence flag Estelada Vermella"><img alt="Catalan pro-independence flag Estelada Vermella" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/50/Estelada_roja.svg/120px-Estelada_roja.svg.png" decoding="async" width="120" height="80" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/50/Estelada_roja.svg/180px-Estelada_roja.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/50/Estelada_roja.svg/240px-Estelada_roja.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="750" data-file-height="500" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext"><a href="/wiki/Catalan_independence_movement" title="Catalan independence movement">Catalan pro-independence</a> flag <a href="/wiki/Estelada" title="Estelada">Estelada</a> Vermella</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Yemeni_Socialist_Party_Flag.svg" class="mw-file-description" title="flag of the Yemeni Socialist Party"><img alt="flag of the Yemeni Socialist Party" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e0/Yemeni_Socialist_Party_Flag.svg/120px-Yemeni_Socialist_Party_Flag.svg.png" decoding="async" width="120" height="80" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e0/Yemeni_Socialist_Party_Flag.svg/180px-Yemeni_Socialist_Party_Flag.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e0/Yemeni_Socialist_Party_Flag.svg/240px-Yemeni_Socialist_Party_Flag.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">flag of the <a href="/wiki/Yemeni_Socialist_Party" title="Yemeni Socialist Party">Yemeni Socialist Party</a></div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Emblem_of_the_Yemeni_Socialist_Party_(1978%E2%80%901990).svg" class="mw-file-description" title="Yemeni Socialist Party, pre 1990"><img alt="Yemeni Socialist Party, pre 1990" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/91/Emblem_of_the_Yemeni_Socialist_Party_%281978%E2%80%901990%29.svg/120px-Emblem_of_the_Yemeni_Socialist_Party_%281978%E2%80%901990%29.svg.png" decoding="async" width="120" height="118" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/91/Emblem_of_the_Yemeni_Socialist_Party_%281978%E2%80%901990%29.svg/180px-Emblem_of_the_Yemeni_Socialist_Party_%281978%E2%80%901990%29.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/91/Emblem_of_the_Yemeni_Socialist_Party_%281978%E2%80%901990%29.svg/240px-Emblem_of_the_Yemeni_Socialist_Party_%281978%E2%80%901990%29.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="650" data-file-height="639" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext"><a href="/wiki/Yemeni_Socialist_Party" title="Yemeni Socialist Party">Yemeni Socialist Party</a>, pre 1990</div> </li> </ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Uses_without_socialist_symbolism">Uses without socialist symbolism</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Red_star&action=edit&section=17" title="Edit section: Uses without socialist symbolism"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Some red stars adopted in emblems and flags have a significance that does not originally relate to socialism. Among these, the most well-known include the current state <a href="/wiki/Flag_of_California" title="Flag of California">flag of California</a> (echoing the Californian red star flag of 1836) and the flag of <a href="/wiki/New_Zealand" title="New Zealand">New Zealand</a> (designed in 1869, officially adopted in 1902). The <a href="/wiki/Flag_of_the_District_of_Columbia" class="mw-redirect" title="Flag of the District of Columbia">flag of the District of Columbia</a> (designed in 1921, adopted in 1938) recalls <a href="/wiki/Coat_of_arms_of_the_Washington_family" title="Coat of arms of the Washington family">George Washington's coat of arms</a>. <a href="/wiki/DC_Comics" title="DC Comics">DC Comics</a>' <a href="/wiki/Wonder_Woman" title="Wonder Woman">Wonder Woman</a> also wears a 5 point red star headband with gold or yellow background. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Crescent_moon_and_star">Crescent moon and star</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Red_star&action=edit&section=18" title="Edit section: Crescent moon and star"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div><p> The crescent moon and star was a symbol used by the <a href="/wiki/Ottoman_Empire" title="Ottoman Empire">Ottoman Empire</a>. Various states with Ottoman history have thus adopted this symbol into their present-day flags.</p><ul class="gallery mw-gallery-traditional"> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Flag_of_Tunisia.svg" class="mw-file-description" title="Flag of Tunisia"><img alt="Flag of Tunisia" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/ce/Flag_of_Tunisia.svg/120px-Flag_of_Tunisia.svg.png" decoding="async" width="120" height="80" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/ce/Flag_of_Tunisia.svg/180px-Flag_of_Tunisia.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/ce/Flag_of_Tunisia.svg/240px-Flag_of_Tunisia.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1200" data-file-height="800" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext"><a href="/wiki/Flag_of_Tunisia" title="Flag of Tunisia">Flag of Tunisia</a></div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Flag_of_Algeria.svg" class="mw-file-description" title="Flag of Algeria"><img alt="Flag of Algeria" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/77/Flag_of_Algeria.svg/120px-Flag_of_Algeria.svg.png" decoding="async" width="120" height="80" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/77/Flag_of_Algeria.svg/180px-Flag_of_Algeria.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/77/Flag_of_Algeria.svg/240px-Flag_of_Algeria.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext"><a href="/wiki/Flag_of_Algeria" title="Flag of Algeria">Flag of Algeria</a></div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Flag_of_the_Turkish_Republic_of_Northern_Cyprus.svg" class="mw-file-description" title="Flag of Northern Cyprus"><img alt="Flag of Northern Cyprus" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1e/Flag_of_the_Turkish_Republic_of_Northern_Cyprus.svg/120px-Flag_of_the_Turkish_Republic_of_Northern_Cyprus.svg.png" decoding="async" width="120" height="80" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1e/Flag_of_the_Turkish_Republic_of_Northern_Cyprus.svg/180px-Flag_of_the_Turkish_Republic_of_Northern_Cyprus.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1e/Flag_of_the_Turkish_Republic_of_Northern_Cyprus.svg/240px-Flag_of_the_Turkish_Republic_of_Northern_Cyprus.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext"><a href="/wiki/Flag_of_Northern_Cyprus" title="Flag of Northern Cyprus">Flag of Northern Cyprus</a></div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Emblem_of_Turkey.svg" class="mw-file-description" title="Emblem of Turkey"><img alt="Emblem of Turkey" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a4/Emblem_of_Turkey.svg/120px-Emblem_of_Turkey.svg.png" decoding="async" width="120" height="87" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a4/Emblem_of_Turkey.svg/180px-Emblem_of_Turkey.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a4/Emblem_of_Turkey.svg/240px-Emblem_of_Turkey.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="512" data-file-height="373" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext"><a href="/wiki/National_emblem_of_Turkey" class="mw-redirect" title="National emblem of Turkey">Emblem of Turkey</a></div> </li> </ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Assorted_Flags_and_Coats_of_Arms">Assorted Flags and Coats of Arms</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Red_star&action=edit&section=19" title="Edit section: Assorted Flags and Coats of Arms"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul class="gallery mw-gallery-traditional"> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Flag_of_New_Zealand.svg" class="mw-file-description" title="Flag of New Zealand."><img alt="Flag of New Zealand." src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3e/Flag_of_New_Zealand.svg/120px-Flag_of_New_Zealand.svg.png" decoding="async" width="120" height="60" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3e/Flag_of_New_Zealand.svg/180px-Flag_of_New_Zealand.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3e/Flag_of_New_Zealand.svg/240px-Flag_of_New_Zealand.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1200" data-file-height="600" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext"><a href="/wiki/Flag_of_New_Zealand" title="Flag of New Zealand">Flag of New Zealand</a>.</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Flag_of_Panama.svg" class="mw-file-description" title="Flag of Panama."><img alt="Flag of Panama." src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ab/Flag_of_Panama.svg/120px-Flag_of_Panama.svg.png" decoding="async" width="120" height="80" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ab/Flag_of_Panama.svg/180px-Flag_of_Panama.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ab/Flag_of_Panama.svg/240px-Flag_of_Panama.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext"><a href="/wiki/Flag_of_Panama" title="Flag of Panama">Flag of Panama</a>.</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Flag_of_the_Syrian_revolution.svg" class="mw-file-description" title="Flag of Syria (opposition group during the civil war). Was the independence flag first used in 1932."><img alt="Flag of Syria (opposition group during the civil war). Was the independence flag first used in 1932." src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/14/Flag_of_the_Syrian_revolution.svg/120px-Flag_of_the_Syrian_revolution.svg.png" decoding="async" width="120" height="67" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/14/Flag_of_the_Syrian_revolution.svg/180px-Flag_of_the_Syrian_revolution.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/14/Flag_of_the_Syrian_revolution.svg/240px-Flag_of_the_Syrian_revolution.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1067" data-file-height="600" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext"><a href="/wiki/Flag_of_Syria" title="Flag of Syria">Flag of Syria</a> (opposition group during the <a href="/wiki/Syrian_Civil_War" class="mw-redirect" title="Syrian Civil War">civil war</a>). Was the independence flag first used in 1932.</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Flag_of_California.svg" class="mw-file-description" title="Flag of California."><img alt="Flag of California." src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/01/Flag_of_California.svg/120px-Flag_of_California.svg.png" decoding="async" width="120" height="80" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/01/Flag_of_California.svg/180px-Flag_of_California.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/01/Flag_of_California.svg/240px-Flag_of_California.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext"><a href="/wiki/Flag_of_California" title="Flag of California">Flag of California</a>.</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Californian_Lone_Star_Flag_(1836).svg" class="mw-file-description" title="California Lone Star Flag – 1836."><img alt="California Lone Star Flag – 1836." src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0a/Californian_Lone_Star_Flag_%281836%29.svg/120px-Californian_Lone_Star_Flag_%281836%29.svg.png" decoding="async" width="120" height="80" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0a/Californian_Lone_Star_Flag_%281836%29.svg/180px-Californian_Lone_Star_Flag_%281836%29.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0a/Californian_Lone_Star_Flag_%281836%29.svg/240px-Californian_Lone_Star_Flag_%281836%29.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext"><a href="/wiki/Lone_Star_of_California" class="mw-redirect" title="Lone Star of California">California Lone Star</a> Flag – 1836.</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Flag_of_Washington,_D.C.svg" class="mw-file-description" title="Flag of Washington, D.C."><img alt="Flag of Washington, D.C." src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/03/Flag_of_Washington%2C_D.C.svg/120px-Flag_of_Washington%2C_D.C.svg.png" decoding="async" width="120" height="60" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/03/Flag_of_Washington%2C_D.C.svg/180px-Flag_of_Washington%2C_D.C.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/03/Flag_of_Washington%2C_D.C.svg/240px-Flag_of_Washington%2C_D.C.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="2000" data-file-height="1000" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">Flag of <a href="/wiki/Washington,_D.C." title="Washington, D.C.">Washington, D.C.</a></div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Bandeira_do_Acre.svg" class="mw-file-description" title="Flag of Acre State, Brazil."><img alt="Flag of Acre State, Brazil." src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4c/Bandeira_do_Acre.svg/120px-Bandeira_do_Acre.svg.png" decoding="async" width="120" height="84" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4c/Bandeira_do_Acre.svg/180px-Bandeira_do_Acre.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4c/Bandeira_do_Acre.svg/240px-Bandeira_do_Acre.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="500" data-file-height="350" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">Flag of <a href="/wiki/Acre_State" class="mw-redirect" title="Acre State">Acre State</a>, Brazil.</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Flag_of_Nagasaki,_Nagasaki.svg" class="mw-file-description" title="Flag of Nagasaki city."><img alt="Flag of Nagasaki city." src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b9/Flag_of_Nagasaki%2C_Nagasaki.svg/120px-Flag_of_Nagasaki%2C_Nagasaki.svg.png" decoding="async" width="120" height="87" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b9/Flag_of_Nagasaki%2C_Nagasaki.svg/180px-Flag_of_Nagasaki%2C_Nagasaki.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b9/Flag_of_Nagasaki%2C_Nagasaki.svg/240px-Flag_of_Nagasaki%2C_Nagasaki.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="430" data-file-height="313" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">Flag of <a href="/wiki/Nagasaki" title="Nagasaki">Nagasaki</a> city.</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Flag_of_Birmingham,_Alabama.svg" class="mw-file-description" title="Flag of Birmingham, Alabama."><img alt="Flag of Birmingham, Alabama." src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/76/Flag_of_Birmingham%2C_Alabama.svg/120px-Flag_of_Birmingham%2C_Alabama.svg.png" decoding="async" width="120" height="63" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/76/Flag_of_Birmingham%2C_Alabama.svg/180px-Flag_of_Birmingham%2C_Alabama.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/76/Flag_of_Birmingham%2C_Alabama.svg/240px-Flag_of_Birmingham%2C_Alabama.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="2850" data-file-height="1500" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">Flag of <a href="/wiki/Birmingham,_Alabama" title="Birmingham, Alabama">Birmingham, Alabama</a>.</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Gharghur_coa.svg" class="mw-file-description" title="Arms of Għargħur, Malta."><img alt="Arms of Għargħur, Malta." src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/18/Gharghur_coa.svg/109px-Gharghur_coa.svg.png" decoding="async" width="109" height="120" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/18/Gharghur_coa.svg/164px-Gharghur_coa.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/18/Gharghur_coa.svg/218px-Gharghur_coa.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="600" data-file-height="660" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">Arms of <a href="/wiki/G%C4%A7arg%C4%A7ur" title="Għargħur">Għargħur</a>, Malta.</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Escudo_de_Mor%C3%AD%C3%B1igo.svg" class="mw-file-description" title="Moríñigo coat of arms."><img alt="Moríñigo coat of arms." src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cd/Escudo_de_Mor%C3%AD%C3%B1igo.svg/68px-Escudo_de_Mor%C3%AD%C3%B1igo.svg.png" decoding="async" width="68" height="120" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cd/Escudo_de_Mor%C3%AD%C3%B1igo.svg/102px-Escudo_de_Mor%C3%AD%C3%B1igo.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cd/Escudo_de_Mor%C3%AD%C3%B1igo.svg/137px-Escudo_de_Mor%C3%AD%C3%B1igo.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="550" data-file-height="965" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext"><a href="/wiki/Mor%C3%AD%C3%B1igo" title="Moríñigo">Moríñigo</a> coat of arms.</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Coat_of_Arms_of_Canton_of_Valais_3D.svg" class="mw-file-description" title="Valais coat of arms"><img alt="Valais coat of arms" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/dc/Coat_of_Arms_of_Canton_of_Valais_3D.svg/95px-Coat_of_Arms_of_Canton_of_Valais_3D.svg.png" decoding="async" width="95" height="120" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/dc/Coat_of_Arms_of_Canton_of_Valais_3D.svg/143px-Coat_of_Arms_of_Canton_of_Valais_3D.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/dc/Coat_of_Arms_of_Canton_of_Valais_3D.svg/190px-Coat_of_Arms_of_Canton_of_Valais_3D.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="840" data-file-height="1060" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext"><a href="/wiki/Valais" title="Valais">Valais</a> coat of arms</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Blason_Crain.svg" class="mw-file-description" title="Crain, Yonne coat of arms."><img alt="Crain, Yonne coat of arms." src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/04/Blason_Crain.svg/109px-Blason_Crain.svg.png" decoding="async" width="109" height="120" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/04/Blason_Crain.svg/164px-Blason_Crain.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/04/Blason_Crain.svg/218px-Blason_Crain.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="600" data-file-height="660" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext"><a href="/wiki/Crain,_Yonne" title="Crain, Yonne">Crain, Yonne</a> coat of arms.</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Blason_ville_fr_Chauriat_(Puy-de-D%C3%B4me).svg" class="mw-file-description" title="Chauriat coat of arms."><img alt="Chauriat coat of arms." src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/13/Blason_ville_fr_Chauriat_%28Puy-de-D%C3%B4me%29.svg/109px-Blason_ville_fr_Chauriat_%28Puy-de-D%C3%B4me%29.svg.png" decoding="async" width="109" height="120" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/13/Blason_ville_fr_Chauriat_%28Puy-de-D%C3%B4me%29.svg/164px-Blason_ville_fr_Chauriat_%28Puy-de-D%C3%B4me%29.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/13/Blason_ville_fr_Chauriat_%28Puy-de-D%C3%B4me%29.svg/218px-Blason_ville_fr_Chauriat_%28Puy-de-D%C3%B4me%29.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="600" data-file-height="660" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext"><a href="/wiki/Chauriat" title="Chauriat">Chauriat</a> coat of arms.</div> </li> </ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Symbol_of_animal_relief">Symbol of animal relief</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Red_star&action=edit&section=20" title="Edit section: Symbol of animal relief"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The red star was adopted as the symbol of the <a href="/w/index.php?title=International_Red_Star_Alliance&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="International Red Star Alliance (page does not exist)">International Red Star Alliance</a>, a Geneva international treaty signed in 1914 with the purpose of bringing about international cooperation on behalf of sick and wounded <a href="/wiki/War_animal" class="mw-redirect" title="War animal">war animals</a>, while securing the neutral status of the personnel engaged in such work. Besides the International Alliance, national Red Star societies were also established. Regarding animal relief, the International Red Star Alliance had an analogous role of that of the <a href="/wiki/International_Red_Cross_and_Red_Crescent_Movement" title="International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement">International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement</a>. To identify their neutral status, white <a href="/wiki/Brassard" title="Brassard">brassards</a> with red stars were worn by military veterinary personnel in <a href="/wiki/World_War_I" title="World War I">World War I</a> in a similar way medical personal worn brassards with red crosses.<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Following the War, the <a href="/w/index.php?title=American_Red_Star&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="American Red Star (page does not exist)">American Red Star</a> turned to focus on domestic issues, including care for animals during disasters. The organization waxed and waned over the decades, and as of 2016<sup class="plainlinks noexcerpt noprint asof-tag update" style="display:none;"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Red_star&action=edit">[update]</a></sup> exists as the <a href="/wiki/American_Humane_Association" class="mw-redirect" title="American Humane Association">American Humane Association</a>'s <a href="/w/index.php?title=Red_Star_Animal_Emergency_Services&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Red Star Animal Emergency Services (page does not exist)">Red Star Animal Emergency Services</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="noprint Inline-Template" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Verifiability" title="Wikipedia:Verifiability"><span title="The material near this tag needs to be fact-checked with the cited source(s). (August 2015)">verification needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Red_stars_in_labels_and_logos">Red stars in labels and logos</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Red_star&action=edit&section=21" title="Edit section: Red stars in labels and logos"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul class="gallery mw-gallery-traditional"> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Heineken_logo.svg" class="mw-file-description" title="Label of a Heineken bottle"><img alt="Label of a Heineken bottle" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/24/Heineken_logo.svg/120px-Heineken_logo.svg.png" decoding="async" width="120" height="21" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/24/Heineken_logo.svg/180px-Heineken_logo.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/24/Heineken_logo.svg/240px-Heineken_logo.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="214" data-file-height="38" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">Label of a <a href="/wiki/Heineken" title="Heineken">Heineken</a> bottle</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:AKO_Crabmeat_003.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Logo of AKO, product of the Soviet Union"><img alt="Logo of AKO, product of the Soviet Union" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/94/AKO_Crabmeat_003.jpg/118px-AKO_Crabmeat_003.jpg" decoding="async" width="118" height="120" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/94/AKO_Crabmeat_003.jpg/177px-AKO_Crabmeat_003.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/94/AKO_Crabmeat_003.jpg/236px-AKO_Crabmeat_003.jpg 2x" data-file-width="267" data-file-height="272" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">Logo of AKO, product of the <a href="/wiki/Soviet_Union" title="Soviet Union">Soviet Union</a></div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Macy%27s_logo.svg" class="mw-file-description" title="Logo of Macy's department stores"><img alt="Logo of Macy's department stores" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a6/Macy%27s_logo.svg/120px-Macy%27s_logo.svg.png" decoding="async" width="120" height="34" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a6/Macy%27s_logo.svg/180px-Macy%27s_logo.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a6/Macy%27s_logo.svg/240px-Macy%27s_logo.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="136" data-file-height="39" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">Logo of <a href="/wiki/Macy%27s" title="Macy's">Macy's</a> department stores</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Texaco_Logo.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Texaco logo, circa 1913"><img alt="Texaco logo, circa 1913" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3b/Texaco_Logo.jpg/120px-Texaco_Logo.jpg" decoding="async" width="120" height="120" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3b/Texaco_Logo.jpg/180px-Texaco_Logo.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3b/Texaco_Logo.jpg/240px-Texaco_Logo.jpg 2x" data-file-width="500" data-file-height="499" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext"><a href="/wiki/Texaco" title="Texaco">Texaco</a> logo, circa 1913</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Caltex_logo.png" class="mw-file-description" title="Caltex logo, circa 1936"><img alt="Caltex logo, circa 1936" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9f/Caltex_logo.png/120px-Caltex_logo.png" decoding="async" width="120" height="120" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9f/Caltex_logo.png/180px-Caltex_logo.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9f/Caltex_logo.png/240px-Caltex_logo.png 2x" data-file-width="500" data-file-height="499" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext"><a href="/wiki/Caltex" title="Caltex">Caltex</a> logo, circa 1936</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Red_Star_Line_(1818%E2%80%931835).svg" class="mw-file-description" title="House flag of the Kermit Line (1818–1835) and Red Star Line (1871–1935)."><img alt="House flag of the Kermit Line (1818–1835) and Red Star Line (1871–1935)." src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/63/Red_Star_Line_%281818%E2%80%931835%29.svg/120px-Red_Star_Line_%281818%E2%80%931835%29.svg.png" decoding="async" width="120" height="80" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/63/Red_Star_Line_%281818%E2%80%931835%29.svg/180px-Red_Star_Line_%281818%E2%80%931835%29.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/63/Red_Star_Line_%281818%E2%80%931835%29.svg/240px-Red_Star_Line_%281818%E2%80%931835%29.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="512" data-file-height="342" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext"><a href="/wiki/House_flag" class="mw-redirect" title="House flag">House flag</a> of the <a href="/wiki/Robert_Kermit_Red_Star_Line" title="Robert Kermit Red Star Line">Kermit Line</a> (1818–1835) and <a href="/wiki/Red_Star_Line" title="Red Star Line">Red Star Line</a> (1871–1935).</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Flag_krsl.svg" class="mw-file-description" title="House flag of the Kermit Line (1835–1867)"><img alt="House flag of the Kermit Line (1835–1867)" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0e/Flag_krsl.svg/120px-Flag_krsl.svg.png" decoding="async" width="120" height="80" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0e/Flag_krsl.svg/180px-Flag_krsl.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0e/Flag_krsl.svg/240px-Flag_krsl.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="324" data-file-height="216" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">House flag of the <a href="/wiki/Robert_Kermit_Red_Star_Line" title="Robert Kermit Red Star Line">Kermit Line</a> (1835–1867)</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:House_flag_of_the_Columbia_Steamship_Company.svg" class="mw-file-description" title="House flag used by Columbia Transportation Division of the Oglebay Norton Corporation, used, among others, on board the SS Edmund Fitzgerald."><img alt="House flag used by Columbia Transportation Division of the Oglebay Norton Corporation, used, among others, on board the SS Edmund Fitzgerald." src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ad/House_flag_of_the_Columbia_Steamship_Company.svg/120px-House_flag_of_the_Columbia_Steamship_Company.svg.png" decoding="async" width="120" height="65" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ad/House_flag_of_the_Columbia_Steamship_Company.svg/180px-House_flag_of_the_Columbia_Steamship_Company.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ad/House_flag_of_the_Columbia_Steamship_Company.svg/240px-House_flag_of_the_Columbia_Steamship_Company.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1380" data-file-height="750" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">House flag used by <a href="/wiki/Oglebay_Norton_Corporation" title="Oglebay Norton Corporation">Columbia Transportation Division of the Oglebay Norton Corporation</a>, used, among others, on board the <a href="/wiki/SS_Edmund_Fitzgerald" title="SS Edmund Fitzgerald">SS Edmund Fitzgerald</a>.</div> </li> </ul> <p>The red star was used by the <a href="/wiki/Texaco" title="Texaco">Texaco</a> oil company in various forms from 1909 to 1981.<sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Its overseas division <a href="/wiki/Caltex" title="Caltex">Caltex</a> also used the red star until 1996. <a href="/wiki/Red_Star_Yeast" title="Red Star Yeast">Red Star Yeast</a> was produced for a century in Milwaukee, Baltimore, and Oakland before its subsumption as a brand by <a href="/wiki/Lesaffre" title="Lesaffre">Lesaffre</a>. </p><p>A brand of <a href="/wiki/Erguotou" title="Erguotou">Erguotou</a>, a type of <a href="/wiki/Baijiu" title="Baijiu">Baijiu</a>, was named "<a href="/wiki/Beijing_Hongxing" title="Beijing Hongxing">Hongxing</a>" (<a href="/wiki/Simplified_Chinese_characters" title="Simplified Chinese characters">Chinese</a>: <span lang="zh-Hans">红星</span>; <abbr title="Literal translation"><small>lit.</small></abbr> 'Red Star') in 1949 to celebrate the founding of the <a href="/wiki/People%27s_Republic_of_China" class="mw-redirect" title="People's Republic of China">People's Republic of China</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p><a href="/wiki/North_Korea" title="North Korea">North Korea</a>'s <a href="/wiki/Red_Star_OS" title="Red Star OS">Red Star operating system</a> takes its name from the communist red star. </p><p>Red stars were included in the symbolism of many <a href="/wiki/Shipowner" class="mw-redirect" title="Shipowner">shipowners</a>, such as <a href="/wiki/Puget_Sound_Navigation_Company" title="Puget Sound Navigation Company">Puget Sound Navigation Co.</a> (1898-1927), <a href="/wiki/Bombay_Steam_Navigation_Company" title="Bombay Steam Navigation Company">Bombay Steam Navigation Co</a> (since the 19th century), <a href="/wiki/London_%26_Overseas_Freighters" title="London & Overseas Freighters">London & Overseas Freighters</a> (1948-1997) and <a href="/wiki/Oglebay_Norton_Corporation" title="Oglebay Norton Corporation">Columbia Transportation Division of the Oglebay Norton Corporation</a>. The two companies were independently named Red Star Line in the 19th century. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Legal_status">Legal status</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Red_star&action=edit&section=22" title="Edit section: Legal status"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/Hammer_and_sickle#Legal_status" title="Hammer and sickle">Hammer and sickle § Legal status</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Bans_on_communist_symbols" title="Bans on communist symbols">Bans on communist symbols</a></div> <p>The red star and the <a href="/wiki/Hammer_and_sickle" title="Hammer and sickle">hammer and sickle</a> are regarded as occupation symbols as well as symbols of <a href="/wiki/Totalitarianism" title="Totalitarianism">totalitarianism</a> and <a href="/wiki/State_terror" class="mw-redirect" title="State terror">state terror</a> by several countries that were formerly either members of or occupied by the <a href="/wiki/Soviet_Union" title="Soviet Union">Soviet Union</a>. Accordingly, <a href="/wiki/Latvia" title="Latvia">Latvia</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Lithuania" title="Lithuania">Lithuania</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Hungary" title="Hungary">Hungary</a><sup id="cite_ref-20" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and <a href="/wiki/Decommunization_in_Ukraine" title="Decommunization in Ukraine">Ukraine</a><sup id="cite_ref-21" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-22" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-23" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> have banned the symbol among others deemed to be symbols of totalitarian political ideologies and the Soviet Union or its republics. In <a href="/wiki/Poland" title="Poland">Poland</a>, the Parliament passed in 2009 a ban that referred generally to "fascist, communist or other totalitarian symbols", while not specifying any of them.<sup id="cite_ref-24" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Following a constitutional complaint, it has been abolished by the Constitutional Tribunal as contrary to articles in the <a href="/wiki/Constitution_of_Poland" title="Constitution of Poland">Constitution of Poland</a> guaranteeing the <a href="/wiki/Freedom_of_speech" title="Freedom of speech">freedom of speech</a>. A similar law was considered in <a href="/wiki/Estonia" title="Estonia">Estonia</a>, but eventually failed in a parliamentary committee due to its conflict with freedoms guaranteed by the <a href="/wiki/Constitution_of_Estonia" title="Constitution of Estonia">constitution of Estonia</a>. </p><p>The <a href="/wiki/European_Court_of_Human_Rights" title="European Court of Human Rights">European Court of Human Rights</a> has ruled, in a similar manner, against the laws that ban political symbols, which were deemed to be in clear opposition with basic human rights, such as freedom of speech,<sup id="cite_ref-25" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-26" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> confirmed again in 2011 in case <i>Fratanolo v. Hungary</i>.<sup id="cite_ref-27" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The decision has been compared<sup id="cite_ref-28" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> to the <a href="/wiki/Swastika#Post-World_War_II_stigmatization_in_Western_countries" title="Swastika">legislation</a> concerning the symbols of <a href="/wiki/Nazism" title="Nazism">Nazism</a>, which continue to be banned in several <a href="/wiki/European_Union" title="European Union">European Union</a> member states, including <a href="/wiki/Strafgesetzbuch_%C2%A7_86a" class="mw-redirect" title="Strafgesetzbuch § 86a">Germany</a> and <a href="/wiki/France" title="France">France</a>. </p><p>There have been calls for an EU-wide ban on both Soviet and Nazi symbols, notably by politicians from Lithuania, Estonia, the <a href="/wiki/Czech_Republic" title="Czech Republic">Czech Republic</a>, Hungary and <a href="/wiki/Slovakia" title="Slovakia">Slovakia</a>. The European Commissioner for Justice, <a href="/wiki/Franco_Frattini" title="Franco Frattini">Franco Frattini</a>, felt it "might not be appropriate" to include communist symbols in the context of discussions on xenophobia and anti-Semitism.<sup id="cite_ref-29" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-29"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>29<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 2003, Hungarian politician Attila Vajnai was arrested, handcuffed and fined for wearing a red star on his lapel during a demonstration. He appealed his sentence to the <a href="/wiki/European_Court_of_Human_Rights" title="European Court of Human Rights">European Court of Human Rights</a>, which decided that the ban was a violation of the freedom of expression, calling the Hungarian ban "indiscriminate" and "too broad".<sup id="cite_ref-30" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-30"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In <a href="/wiki/Slovenia" title="Slovenia">Slovenia</a>, the red star was historically associated with the <a href="/wiki/Yugoslav_Partisans" title="Yugoslav Partisans">resistance movement</a> that fought against fascist occupation in World War II, but was also later a state symbol of <a href="/wiki/Socialist_Federal_Republic_of_Yugoslavia" title="Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia">Yugoslavia</a> during the dictatorship of <a href="/wiki/Josip_Broz_Tito" title="Josip Broz Tito">Josip Broz Tito</a>. On 21 March 2011, Slovenia issued a <a href="/wiki/%E2%82%AC2_commemorative_coins#2011_coinage" class="mw-redirect" title="€2 commemorative coins">two-euro commemorative</a> coin to mark the 100th anniversary of the birth of <a href="/wiki/Franc_Rozman" title="Franc Rozman">Franc Rozman</a>, a partisan commander, featuring a large star that represented a red star. This led to criticism from the Slovenian democratic parties without a communist history. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Non_five-pointed_red_stars">Non five-pointed red stars</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Red_star&action=edit&section=23" title="Edit section: Non five-pointed red stars"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Emblems and flags where the red stars displayed are not five-pointed are much rarer. These include the following: </p> <ul class="gallery mw-gallery-traditional"> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Flag_of_the_International_Brigades.svg" class="mw-file-description" title="Three-pointed red star in the flag of the International Brigades."><img alt="Three-pointed red star in the flag of the International Brigades." src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a5/Flag_of_the_International_Brigades.svg/120px-Flag_of_the_International_Brigades.svg.png" decoding="async" width="120" height="86" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a5/Flag_of_the_International_Brigades.svg/180px-Flag_of_the_International_Brigades.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a5/Flag_of_the_International_Brigades.svg/240px-Flag_of_the_International_Brigades.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="694" data-file-height="500" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">Three-pointed red star in the flag of the <a href="/wiki/International_Brigades" title="International Brigades">International Brigades</a>.</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Flag_of_Aruba.svg" class="mw-file-description" title="Four-pointed red star in the flag of Aruba."><img alt="Four-pointed red star in the flag of Aruba." src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f6/Flag_of_Aruba.svg/120px-Flag_of_Aruba.svg.png" decoding="async" width="120" height="80" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f6/Flag_of_Aruba.svg/180px-Flag_of_Aruba.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f6/Flag_of_Aruba.svg/240px-Flag_of_Aruba.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">Four-pointed red star in the <a href="/wiki/Flag_of_Aruba" title="Flag of Aruba">flag of Aruba</a>.</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Flag_of_Burundi.svg" class="mw-file-description" title="Six-pointed red stars outlined in green in the flag of Burundi."><img alt="Six-pointed red stars outlined in green in the flag of Burundi." src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/50/Flag_of_Burundi.svg/120px-Flag_of_Burundi.svg.png" decoding="async" width="120" height="72" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/50/Flag_of_Burundi.svg/180px-Flag_of_Burundi.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/50/Flag_of_Burundi.svg/240px-Flag_of_Burundi.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1000" data-file-height="600" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">Six-pointed red stars outlined in green in the <a href="/wiki/Flag_of_Burundi" title="Flag of Burundi">flag of Burundi</a>.</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Flag_of_Chicago,_Illinois.svg" class="mw-file-description" title="Six-pointed red stars in the flag of Chicago."><img alt="Six-pointed red stars in the flag of Chicago." src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9b/Flag_of_Chicago%2C_Illinois.svg/120px-Flag_of_Chicago%2C_Illinois.svg.png" decoding="async" width="120" height="80" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9b/Flag_of_Chicago%2C_Illinois.svg/180px-Flag_of_Chicago%2C_Illinois.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9b/Flag_of_Chicago%2C_Illinois.svg/240px-Flag_of_Chicago%2C_Illinois.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="720" data-file-height="480" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">Six-pointed red stars in the <a href="/wiki/Flag_of_Chicago" title="Flag of Chicago">flag of Chicago</a>.</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Naval_Ensign_of_Singapore.svg" class="mw-file-description" title="Eight-pointed red star in the Naval Ensign of Singapore."><img alt="Eight-pointed red star in the Naval Ensign of Singapore." src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c5/Naval_Ensign_of_Singapore.svg/120px-Naval_Ensign_of_Singapore.svg.png" decoding="async" width="120" height="80" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c5/Naval_Ensign_of_Singapore.svg/180px-Naval_Ensign_of_Singapore.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c5/Naval_Ensign_of_Singapore.svg/240px-Naval_Ensign_of_Singapore.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">Eight-pointed red star in the <a href="/wiki/Naval_Ensign" 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