Would a Communist America change its flag?

Castro's Cuba wasn't originally self-consciously founded as a Communist state, and the European states which did retain the pre-war flags after WW2 usually did so because they'd taken on strong anti-Nazi and nationalist connotations. Bit different to an internal Communist revolution where 'the other side' has been using the stars and stripes.

Exactly. The new flag definitely isn't going to have bourgeois blue on it :p
 
Castro's Cuba wasn't originally self-consciously founded as a Communist state, and the European states which did retain the pre-war flags after WW2 usually did so because they'd taken on strong anti-Nazi and nationalist connotations. Bit different to an internal Communist revolution where 'the other side' has been using the stars and stripes.

What makes you presume it isn't the government that faces a reaction from people angry with the outcome of an election?

The analogy that comes to mind is the Spanish Republic during the Civil War.
 
What makes you presume it isn't the government that faces a reaction from people angry with the outcome of an election?

The analogy that comes to mind is the Spanish Republic during the Civil War.

And why would an elected Eurocommunist or Socialist party want to change the national flag? This whole question is more or less predicated on a revolutionary situation, isn't it?
 
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