Socialist emulation
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Socialist competition or socialist emulation was a form of competition between state enterprises and between individuals practiced in the Soviet Union and in other Eastern bloc states.
"1973 socialist competition winner" award.
Socialist competition winner flag
Red flag (politics)
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In politics, a red flag is predominantly a symbol of left-wing ideologies, including socialism, communism, anarchism, and the labour movement. The originally empty or plain red flag has been associate
Socialist emulation
…honorary diplomas, honorary badges, and/or putting winners' portraits on the "Board of Honor" (Доска Почета); work collectives were awarded with the "Transferable Red Banner of the Socialist Emulation Winner" (Переходящее знамя победителя в социалистическом соревновании). More prestigious was the nomination to state orders…
Lamartine Rejecting the Red Flag in Front of the City Hall, February 25, 1848. By Henri Félix Emmanuel Philippoteaux (1815–1884). Lamartine said that the red flag represented revolutionary violence, and "has to be put down immediately after the fighting".
Plain red banners for the Sultan's retinue. From the Turkish Costume Book by Lambert de Vos, 1574.
Commemoration March of the 1831 Merthyr Rising in Merthyr Tydfil, Wales, 2012.
Decorative red flags in Tiananmen Square, in front of the Great Hall of the People.