page_title: Hammer and sickle
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: Hammer and sickle / History
caption_attribution_description: Español: Moneda de 1peso chileno del año 1933.
context_page_description: The hammer and sickle is a symbol meant to represent proletarian solidarity – a union between the peasantry and working-class. It was first adapted during the Russian Revolution, the hammer representing the workers and the sickle representing the peasants.
  After World War I and the Russian Civil War, the hammer and sickle became more widely used as a symbol for labor within the Soviet Union and for international proletarian unity. It was taken up by many communist movements around the world, some with local variations. Today, even after the dissolution of the Soviet Union, the hammer and sickle remains commonplace in Russia and other former union republics, but its display is prohibited in some other former communist countries as well as in countries where communism is banned by law. The hammer and sickle also remains commonplace in socialist countries like Vietnam and China.
caption: The chilean peso used the hammer and sickle symbol between 1895 and 1940
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