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Which Red Flag With a Yellow Star Is That?
the flag of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics — the USSR flag, for short — featured a red background with a yellow hammer and sickle alongside a single yellow star in the top left corner.
I Told People I Was From Brooklyn. I Hid My True Identity for Years
"Well, you're not drawing a flag of that place." That place was the former Soviet Union, and politics aside, adding a gold ...
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Watch: Ukraine Removes Soviet Hammer and Sickle From Huge Kyiv Statue
Ukraine started to remove the Soviet emblem from the Motherland Monument in Kyiv, one of Europe’s tallest statues. Ukraine’s coat of arms will replace the hammer and sickle ahead of Ukraine's ...
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When The United States Broke Into 2 Countries, Had 2 Presidents, 2 Flags
At dusk on Christmas day, 1991, the iconic hammer-and-sickle flag of the erstwhile Soviet Union lowered for the last time over the Kremlin in Moscow. USSR had dissolved into Russia and fourteen ...