39-565: Republican Eagle may refer to: the Coat of arms of Austria the Coat of arms of Germany ( Bundesadler ) the Egyptian Eagle of Saladin emblem Red Wing Republican Eagle , a Minnesotan newspaper Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Republican Eagle . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change
78-453: A cogwheel surrounded by fourteen white stars; the rice representing the peasants and the cogwheel representing the workers, the combination symbolizing that the peasants and workers be the two basic social classes for State building, while the fourteen equal-sized white stars indicate the unity and equality of fourteen member states of the Union. The flag of Chama Cha Mapinduzi (CCM, Party of
117-553: A dove over the hammer and sickle as its symbol. The flag of the Guadeloupe Communist Party uses a sickle, turned to look like a majuscule G , to represent Guadeloupe . In 1938, the Dobama Asiayone , an anti-British nationalist group in the then British Burma , adopted a tricolour flag charged with red sickle and hammer. From 1974–2010, the flag of Burma (Myanmar) featured a bushel of rice superimposed on
156-472: A golden hammer. In accordance of Art. 8a Abs. 3 the actual withdrawn of the Wappen der Republik Österreich is in law as of § 1 Wappengesetz from 1984: Das Wappen der Republik Österreich (Bundeswappen) ist im Art. 8a Abs. 2 B-VG bestimmt und entspricht der Zeichnung des Bundeswappens in der einen Bestandteil dieses Gesetzes bildenden Anlage 1 . This artistic version as above described with
195-523: A number of EU member states have banned Holocaust denial . The European Commission turned down this request, finding after a study that the criteria for EU-wide criminal legislation were not met, leaving individual member states to determine the extent to which they wished to handle past totalitarian crimes. In February 2013, the Constitutional Court of Hungary annulled the ban on the use of symbols of fascist and communist dictatorships, including
234-506: A widespread symbol of communism , as is the breaking of chains. Surveys have however confirmed, that understanding of the actual symbolism of the arms is widespread. On the one hand the arms serve as a new republican symbol, on the other as a modified version of the historical Habsburg arms. The current version of the arms is often regarded as being reminiscent of the double-headed eagle of the Habsburg monarchy. According to this interpretation,
273-503: Is intended to highlight the party's connection to the peace movement. It is usually used in conjunction with the hammer and sickle and it appears on all of the CPB's publications. Some members of the CPB prefer one symbol over the other, although the party's 1994 congress reaffirmed the hammer and dove's position as the official emblem of the party. Similarly, the Communist Party of Israel uses
312-471: Is represented plain black, the undefined colour of the chain and the yellow as heraldic gold. All these versions are used in parallel. The symbols and emblems used in the Austrian arms are as follows: Discussions about the arms have been triggered in the past by differing political interpretations, especially by the use of the hammer and the sickle and the broken chains, since the crossed hammer and sickle are
351-509: The Bryansk Oblast has them on its flag and coat of arms, which is also the central element of its flag. In addition, the Russian city of Oryol also uses the hammer and sickle on its flag. The former Soviet (now Russian) national airline, Aeroflot , continues to use the hammer and sickle in its symbol. The de facto government of Transnistria uses (with minor modifications) the flag and
390-777: The Communist Party of Denmark , the Communist Party of Norway , the Romanian Communist Party , the Lebanese Communist Party , the Communist Party of the Philippines and the Shining Path . The Communist Party of Sweden , the Portuguese Communist Party and the Mexican Communist Party use the hammer and sickle imposed on the red star. Many symbols having similar structures and messages to
429-730: The Communist Party of India (Marxist) , the Communist Party of India (Marxist–Leninist) Liberation , the Communist Party of India , the Communist Party of India (Maoist) , the Indian Communist Marxist Party , the Socialist Unity Centre of India (Communist) , the Egyptian Communist Party , the Communist Party of Pakistan , the Communist Refoundation Party in Italy, the Communist Party of Spain ,
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#1733094060720468-531: The East German emblem and flag. The Far Eastern Republic of Russia used an anchor crossed over a spade or pickaxe, symbolising the union of the fishermen and miners. The Fourth International , founded by Leon Trotsky , uses a hammer and sickle symbol on which the number 4 is superimposed. The hammer and sickle in the Fourth International symbol are the opposite of other hammer and sickle symbols in that
507-616: The Holy Roman Empire ), but rather on the "symbol of the legions of the Roman Republic ", the Aquila . The Austrian federal states have however retained pre-republican heraldic traditions (mostly heraldic images from the Middle Ages, but also diverse accoutrements such as archducal and ducal hats, and knights' helmets, inter alia ). On 31 October 1918, the council of state agreed upon
546-620: The Republic of Austria has been in use in its first forms by the First Republic of Austria since 1919. Between 1934 and the German annexation in 1938 , the Federal State (Bundesstaat Österreich) used a different coat of arms, which consisted of a double-headed eagle (one-party corporate state led by the clerico-right-wing Fatherland Front , often labeled Austro-fascist ). The establishment of
585-599: The dissolution of the Soviet Union , such as Belarus and Russia . Some countries have imposed bans on communist symbols , where the display of the hammer and sickle is prohibited. In 1918, Yevgeny Ivanovich Kamzolkin proposed a 'hammer and sickle' symbol as a decoration for the May Day celebrations in the Zamoskvorechye District of Moscow . It originally featured a sword, but Lenin strongly objected, disliking
624-669: The sickle representing the peasants. After World War I (from which Russia withdrew in 1917) and the Russian Civil War , the hammer and sickle became more widely used as a symbol for labor within the Soviet Union (USSR) and for international proletarian unity . It was taken up by many communist movements around the world, some with local variations. The hammer and sickle remains commonplace in self-declared socialist states, such as China , Cuba , North Korea , Laos , and Vietnam , but also some former Soviet republics following
663-477: The Republic of Austria (federal coat of arms) consists of a free-floating, single-headed, black eagle with golden arms and a red tongue, whose chest is covered with a red shield crossed by a silver crossbar. The eagle wears a golden mural crown with three visible pinnacles on its head. A broken iron chain encloses the two talons. In his right talon he carries a golden sickle with the edge turned inwards, in his left talon
702-732: The Revolution in Swahili ), currently the ruling political party of Tanzania , has a slightly different symbol with a hammer and a hoe ( jembe ) instead of a sickle to represent the most common farm tool in Africa. The symbols of the liberal socialist parties of Radical Civic Union in Argentina and the Czech National Social Party in the Czech Republic features a hammer and a quill with
741-555: The Second Republic in 1945 saw the return of the original arms, with broken chains added to symbolise Austria's liberation. In 1981 the Wappen der Republik Österreich (Bundeswappen) described the blazon in the Federal Constitutional Law (Austrian act) ( Bundes-Verfassungsgesetz , B-VG). With this change of law it was defined that the specific drawing is to codificate in an own statute law and that all other versions of
780-1055: The coat of arms of Austria were no longer in law. In accordance to this the Wappengesetz from 1984 and the drawing of the actual Wappen der Republik Österreich is in Austrian law. The often used Bundesadler (federal eagle) is only a synonymous term in colloquial language. In Art. 8a Abs. 2 B-VG the blazon of the Federal Arms of the Republic of Austria is described as follows: Das Wappen der Republik Österreich (Bundeswappen) besteht aus einem freischwebenden, einköpfigen, schwarzen, golden gewaffneten und rot bezungten Adler, dessen Brust mit einem roten, von einem silbernen Querbalken durchzogenen Schild belegt ist. Der Adler trägt auf seinem Haupt eine goldene Mauerkrone mit drei sichtbaren Zinnen. Die beiden Fänge umschließt eine gesprengte Eisenkette. Er trägt im rechten Fang eine goldene Sichel mit einwärts gekehrter Schneide, im linken Fang einen goldenen Hammer. In translation: The coat of arms of
819-426: The colours of the republic (red-white-red) as well as the new emblem composed personally by chancellor Karl Renner . The coat of arms was composed quickly due to the need for having a seal at the peace talks after World War I . The emblem consisted of a black tower representing the bourgeoisie, two crossed red hammers representing workers and a golden wreath of wheat representing farmers. The colours black, red and gold
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#1733094060720858-483: The council of ministers on 8 May 1919 replaced the tower emblem with the eagle. Hammer and sickle The hammer and sickle ( Unicode : U+262D ☭ 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
897-520: The defeat of Nazi Germany (which had absorbed Austria in 1938) in the Second World War. In his work, Daily Life in a Crumbling Empire: The Absorption of Russia into the World Economy , sociologist David Lempert hypothesizes that the hammer and sickle was a secular replacement for the patriarchal cross . At the time of creation, the hammer and sickle stood for worker-peasant alliance, with
936-485: The display of communist symbols is banned and the country's Communist party was also banned by decree of president Suharto , following the 1965–1966 killings of communists in which over 500,000 people were killed. In January 2018, an activist protesting against Bumi Resources displayed the hammer and sickle, was accused of spreading communism, and later jailed. In Poland , dissemination of items which are "media of fascist, communist or other totalitarian symbolism"
975-399: The drawing in attachment 1 of Wappengesetz 1984 in which the eagle's feathers are grey and detailed, with the colours of bluegrey for the chain and dark gold for the other signs, is the actual official coat of arms of the Republic of Austria. There are some other different versions of the arms in use as of more in accordance to the blason of Art. 8a Abs. 2 B-VG, in which the eagle
1014-562: The emblem of the former Moldavian SSR , which includes the hammer and sickle. The flag can also appear without the hammer and sickle in some circumstances, for example on Transnistrian-issued license plates . Three out of the five currently ruling Communist parties use a hammer and sickle as the party symbol: the Chinese Communist Party , the Communist Party of Vietnam and the Lao People's Revolutionary Party . In Laos and Vietnam,
1053-408: The former representing workers and the latter representing clerks. The election symbol of Communist Party of India consists of a horizontal sickle, vertically crossed by Ears of Corn in the center. The hammer and sickle has long been a common theme in socialist realism, but it has also seen some depiction in non-Marxist popular culture. Andy Warhol who created many drawings and photographs of
1092-497: The hammer a traditional symbol of the industrial proletariat (who dominated the proletariat of Russia) and the sickle a traditional symbol for the peasantry, but the meaning has since broadened to a globally recognizable symbol for Marxism , communist parties , or socialist states . Two federal subjects of the post-Soviet Russian Federation use the hammer and sickle in their symbols: the Vladimir Oblast has them on its flag and
1131-522: The hammer and sickle is the most famous example of this. In several countries in the former Eastern Bloc , there are laws that define the hammer and sickle as the symbol of a " totalitarian and criminal ideology" and the public display of the hammer and sickle and other Communist symbols such as the red star is considered a criminal offence. Georgia , Hungary , Latvia , Lithuania , Moldova (1 October 2012 – 4 June 2013) and Ukraine have banned communist symbols including this one. A similar law
1170-542: The hammer and sickle party flags can often be seen flying side by side with their respective national flags. Many communist parties around the world also use it, including the Communist Party of Greece , the Communist Party of Chile , both the Communist Party of Brazil and the Brazilian Communist Party , the Purba Banglar Sarbahara Party from Bangladesh, the Communist Party of Sri Lanka ,
1209-572: The hammer and sickle, the red star and the swastika, saying the ban was too broad and imprecise. The court also pointed to a judgement of the European Court of Human Rights in which Hungary was found guilty of violation of article 10 , the right to freedom of expression . In June 2013, the Constitutional Court of Moldova ruled that the Moldovan Communist Party 's symbols—the hammer and sickle—are legal and can be used. In Indonesia ,
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1248-509: The head of the hammer is on the right side and the sickle end tip on the left. The Trotskyist League for the Fifth International merges a hammer with the number 5, using the number's lower arch to form the sickle. A sickle with a rifle is also used by the People's Mojahedin of Iran . The Communist Party of Britain uses the hammer and dove symbol . Designed in 1988 by Michal Boncza, it
1287-410: The link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Republican_Eagle&oldid=745993255 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Coat of arms of Austria The current coat of arms of
1326-540: The logo's center. The logo of the Communist Party of Turkey consists of half a cog wheel crossed by a hammer, with a star on the top. Tools represented in other designs include: the brush , sickle and hammer of the Workers' Party of Korea ; the spade , flaming torch and quill used prior to 1984 by the British Labour Party ; the pickaxe and rifle used in communist Albania ; and the hammer and compasses of
1365-569: The militaristic connotations. On 6 July 1923, the 2nd session of the Central Executive Committee (CIK) adopted the emblem. In 1919, the new Republic of Austria introduced a sickle and a hammer to its coat of arms , one in each talon of its supporting eagle, to represent the farming and industrial classes. They were removed in 1934 with the establishment of the Fascist Federal State of Austria and returned in 1945 after
1404-519: The original have been designed. For example, the Angolan flag shows a segment of a cog , crossed by a machete and crowned with a socialist star while the flag of Mozambique features an AKM crossed by a hoe . In the logo of the Communist Party USA , a circle is formed by a half cog and a semicircular sickle-blade. A hammer is laid directly over the sickle's handle with the hammer's head at
1443-642: The single headed eagle alludes, in the sense of the removal of the left hand , "Hungarian" head, to the removal of the eastern part of the Habsburg Empire. However, Addendum 202 to the 1919 Law on the State Arms and the State Seal of the Republic of German Austria states expressly that the "new" single headed Austrian eagle is based not on the double headed eagle (symbol of the Habsburgs since 1804, and previously of
1482-575: Was considered in Estonia , but it eventually failed in a parliamentary committee. In Ukraine, the legislature equates communist symbols including hammer with sickle to Nazi swastika symbols. In 2010, the Lithuanian , Latvian , Bulgarian , Hungarian , Romanian , and Czech governments called for the European Union to criminalize "the approval, denial or belittling of communist crimes" similar to how
1521-470: Was deliberately chosen because they were the national colours of Germany , the three colours associated with republican Germany (as opposed to red, white and black), as first manifested within German lands in 1778 . However, the new emblazon was withdrawn as it was met with heavy criticism from, for example, Adolf Loos and heraldists; the proposal was seen as too similar to commercial advertising. A decision by
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