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... Not surprisingly, the Soviet Union also stepped up its flag-related patriotism during these periods, instituting a range of laws to protect the red hammer-and-sickle banner from physical desecration or inappropriate display.
What citizen, um, comrade, in the old USSR had the nerve to desecrate the Hammer and Sickle flag? Man, you would think that would be a long time in the Gulag. When you are a dictatorship, usually, you can control things like this well. That said, if Lizzie posted it, then I am 100% sure it is true. I'm just stunned the the old Soviet Union had this problem.
Also, great history on the Lady Columbia.