Definition of hammer and sickle
: an emblem consisting of a crossed hammer and sickle used especially as a symbol of Soviet Communism
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They were greeted with scores of television cameras perched by the looming gray doors — which still bear the hammer and sickle insignia of the Soviet Union — that lead into the halls of the Stalinist skyscraper the Foreign Ministry calls home.
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They were greeted with scores of television cameras perched by the looming gray doors — which still bear the hammer and sickle insignia of the Soviet Union — that lead into the halls of the Stalinist skyscraper the Foreign Ministry calls home.
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Just inside Kachka’s door on Grand Avenue, a hammer and sickle are bolted on the wall.
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Even her last public appearance — her funeral — was marked by the Communist Party hammer and sickle flag that adorned her coffin.
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One featured a drawing of Sessions's face over a Soviet hammer and sickle.
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The main stage is adorned with giant red flags flanking the hammer and sickle.
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Leave aside the double standard here — how many hipsters are there with the hammer and sickle or Mao’s red star on their T-shirts?
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Lukashenko has banned the red-and-white flag Belarus adopted just after the U.S.S.R. collapsed and restored a Soviet-era one, minus the hammer and sickle.
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First Known Use of hammer and sickle
1921
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