Personally I'm pretty picky when it comes to communist flags. The soviet, Chinese and Vietnamese flags are all classics, but very basic, and all have the same colour pallet. Nothing really differentiates these from any other commie flag. The GDR flag was kinda cool, kinda lame. They just slapped their icon on top of the old national flag. Any flag that just puts a communist icon on an already existing flag isnt that interesting to me, like a lot of american flags just replace the stars with a hammer and gear or something.

Best communist flag? DPRK. Its distinctive and communist. The s tarry plough of the Irish communist movement is very cool, and keeps the same style of the traditional Erin flag. There's a simplified starry plough, but it has a lot less identity

  • Tiocfaidhcaisarla [he/him, comrade/them]
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    2 years ago

    The starry plough always seemed too busy for me, the stars just exploding off an overly detailed plough.

    It's basic but the old communist party of Germany, the KPD, just putting a hamsic and star large and in center is cool. Plus it inspired the even more based later KPD ML flag.

    I also like the Vietnamese NLF flag since it adds some blue and looks like what Arizona should aspire to be.

    The 2nd Spanish Republic flag was great, love some purple.

    I think the SSRs should have had their basic soviet derived flags used for their respective parties or something and had their own and autonomous regions flags be designed by those people in them to give some more diversity and identity.

    Cuba and the DPRK definitely have more going for them generally though, but I love my communist imagery.

    • Vncredleader
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      2 years ago

      Least most parties use the simplified starry plough.

      Also I am pretty sure the SSRs did at least submit the designs they ended up with. They just had to include specific elements to promote the union.

      I do wish they stuck with the more unique ones though, I found this incredible site with a history for just about any flag the USSR had, like take a look at Armenia and the submissions they had http://www.vexillographia.ru/russia/index.htm

      I love this one http://www.vexillographia.ru/russia/index.htm and this http://www.vexillographia.ru/russia/index.htm

      • Tiocfaidhcaisarla [he/him, comrade/them]
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        2 years ago

        Unfortunately those links all go to the same homepage, but I was able to look through them and yeah, the Armenian submissions are really cool, colorful, some great designs that they and other SSRs created and I think would have been a unique way to represent each one. If only the USSR are still around, what could have been :ussr-cry: