Russian flag, not China
Thank you for clarifying that! Doh!
Not Russia(white,blue,red), not U.S.S.R.(has a star above the hammer and sickle), not China(4 stars). Just a generic Communist flag.
It’s the Chinese Communist Party flag, not the national flag
“During the (Chinese) Civil War, the Communists had fought under the flag of the Chinese Communist Party - a copy of the iconic Soviet flag, with a yellow hammer and sickle atop a red background, but without the Soviet five-point star topping the sickle. But that was the flag of the Party, not of the nation (a distinction that, while sometimes blurry, does exist). So when the war came to a close, the Communist forces realized that they needed a national flag to celebrate the founding of the People’s Republic. And so, in 1949, the Communists held themselves a flag contest.”. [thatsmags:com]