hammer and sickle
noun
: an emblem consisting of a crossed hammer and sickle used especially as a symbol of Soviet Communism
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Just two days before this, Mamdani appeared on the November 5 cover of the New York Post, his head cut-and-pasted onto a Soviet figure holding up a hammer and sickle in victory.
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Literary Hub, 20 Nov. 2025
Then, when Act Two arrives, all those shoulder pads fall to the floor—along with the production’s let’s-just-do-the-damn-thing curtain, which is half Stars and Stripes and half hammer and sickle—and Chess’s real raison d’etre erupts like Old Faithful.
—Sara Holdren, Vulture, 17 Nov. 2025
This paradox was reflected in its official banner: a red background with a white circle in the middle and, in the place of a black swastika, a black hammer and sickle.
—James Verini, The New Yorker, 1 Mar. 2025
The painting features robust, muscular figures in the style of Michelangelo and references the Klan, Nazism, torture, communism, and the Inquisition, evident in such forms as a swastika, hooded figures, a cross, and a hammer and sickle.
—News Desk, Artforum, 3 Feb. 2025
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Literary Hub, 20 Nov. 2025
Then, when Act Two arrives, all those shoulder pads fall to the floor—along with the production’s let’s-just-do-the-damn-thing curtain, which is half Stars and Stripes and half hammer and sickle—and Chess’s real raison d’etre erupts like Old Faithful.
—Sara Holdren, Vulture, 17 Nov. 2025
This paradox was reflected in its official banner: a red background with a white circle in the middle and, in the place of a black swastika, a black hammer and sickle.
—James Verini, The New Yorker, 1 Mar. 2025
The painting features robust, muscular figures in the style of Michelangelo and references the Klan, Nazism, torture, communism, and the Inquisition, evident in such forms as a swastika, hooded figures, a cross, and a hammer and sickle.
—News Desk, Artforum, 3 Feb. 2025
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