In 1861, when Republican leader Abraham Lincoln was on his way to becoming President of the United States of America, the ...

On Christmas Day 1991, Soviet premier Mikhail Gorbachev resigned from his post, and the hammer and sickle flag were promptly lowered from the Kremlin shortly afterward. The following day ...

Walmart stopped selling T-shirts and hoodies emblazoned with Soviet hammer and sickle symbols, after Lithuania reprimanded the American retail giant for doing so. The hammer and sickle symbol is ...

At the entrance to Pereslavl-Zalessky, there's a giant Soviet hammer and sickle by the side of the road that it seems no-one ever bothered to remove. Further on is a sign for a lakeside surfing ...