It’s a SOVIET symbol. The USSR - Soviets are no more but much came out of there - but today it is no more. It’s Russia. The hammer stood for their great industrial achievements representing those that worked with a hammer to bend iron - including the first rocket into space race and the sickle represented the Farmer or those that toiled the land.

It’s a SOVIET symbol. The USSR - Soviets are no more but much came out of there - but today it is no more. It’s Russia. The hammer stood for their great industrial achievements representing those that worked with a hammer to bend iron - including the first rocket in the space race and the sickle represented the Farmer or those that toiled the land.