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Socialism?

• thaumasiotes 13y ago
  ...no? As in China, they adopted red because of its preexisting immense popularity (well, for the USSR it seems they also drew on some "revolution is red" symbolism). Your causation is running backwards. From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_the_Soviet_Union http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_the_Soviet_Union : > The colour red has always been a positive symbol in the Russian culture. The word red (Russian: красный, krasnyy) is etymologically related with the Russian word for beautiful. This can also be seen in Moscow’s Red Square and the Russian Orthodox festivity, Red Easter.
  • rmc 13y ago
    Well. TIL. I thought it was the socialist flag.