A red star, five-pointed and filled, is a symbol that has often historically been associated with communist ideology, particularly in combination with the hammer and sickle, but is also used as a purely socialist symbol in the 21st century. It has been widely used in flags, state emblems, monuments, ornaments, and logos.
A New Year tree with a red star in front of a church cupola in Volokolamsk, Russia, 2010.
Red Star (1908)
U.S. Army Signal Corps Curtiss JN-3 biplanes with red star insignia, 1915
Red Cavalry poster depicting a red star on a budenovka hat (1920)
The hammer and sickle is a communist symbol representing proletarian solidarity between agricultural and industrial workers. It was first adopted during the Russian Revolution at the end of World War I, the hammer representing workers and the sickle representing the peasants.
The metro station, Plošča Lienina, Minsk
Sándor Pinczehelyi, Hammer and Sickle
A tableau in a communist rally in Kerala, India
"Worker, peasant and the intellectual" in front of the Juche Tower, Pyongyang