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OTL the most well-known Communist symbol is the hammer and sickle (below), which was chosen because Russia at the time was a largely agrarian and not very industrialised culture - sickle for the peasant farmers, hammer for the manual workers.



Other Communist countries changed this to fit their own cultures and situations. For instance, East Germany, with more of a tradition of a left-leaning intelligentsia, replaced the sickle with a set of compasses to represent this:



Similarly, the symbol used in North Korea is a hammer and sickle (of Korean design) with a paintbrush to represent the intelligentsia.



Angola uses a crossed machete and hoe (on the coat of arms) or a machete and cogwheel (on the flag) for similar reasons.


So, based on all this, what Communist symbols do you think would have been used in other countries if they had somehow gone Communist in OTL?

Thinking about the USA for example, one thought I had was a gearwheel and cotton-gin, representing the industrial north and the agricultural south.
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