Template:Communist symbol

Legal disclaimer
This image is or contains a symbol or symbols prohibited by law in the nations mentioned below, due to (variously) representations of communism, socialism, or similar governmental structures; or of parties/organizations associated with said:

• Ukraine's Verkhovna Rada
• Georgia's parliament
• Germany's Criminal Code §86a, referring to the "use of symbols of unconstitutional organizations" outside the contexts of "art or science, research or teaching"
• Latvia's Saeima
• Lithuania's Constitutional Court passed Article 188¹⁸ of the Code of Administrative Offences
• Indonesia

Bans no longer in effect include:

• Hungary: Hungarian Criminal Code 269/B.§ 1993
• Moldova: LPC192/2012^ro,ru
• Poland: Art. 256 of the Dz.U. 1997 nr 88 poz. 553 of the criminal code has removed references to imagery and now only covers promotion of communist ideas
• United States: had state and city laws; Supreme Court declared these unconstitutional in Stromberg v. California, 283 U.S. 359 (1931)

Imagery covered may include the hammer and sickle^en, red star, emblems/insignias, flags or images of leaders.

Template documentation

This is a copy of commons:Template:Communist symbol modified to look like Template:Nazi symbol.