from origin the symbol of soviet communism. it first appeared as soviet symbol in russia in 1917.

The Soviet flag, with hammer and sickle, was created in 1923. The hammer and sickle itself originated from the Russian unity of the peasants (the sickle) with the workers (the hammer), who together formed the Soviet Russian state.

The Red field of the flag symbolises the blood that has been spilt by workers all over the world in the fight for their emancipation, and was directly inherited from the red banner flown at the Paris Commune (see karl marx and friedrich engels); the original and hitherto base symbol of a worker's government flag.today the hammer and sickle are in general a symbol for communism and can be seen in the symbols of all communist parties over the world.