| This bronze is the most blatantly Communist one, with the hammer and sickle flag. In Communist Czechoslovakia 1948-1989, it was said to be not the Soviet flag, but the "Flag of the Czechoslovak Communist Party," and was flown over the Czech flag on flagpoles. People were never supposed to fly a Czech flag without flying a hammer and sickle above it, in fact, and if you had a sticky flag in your window it was the same situation. This latter practice can be seen in the movie "Kolya." Today, KSCM, the modern Czech Communist party, no longer flies this flag from their headquarters, but many of their (very old) activists still carry it at demonstrations and rallies. |