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The hammer and sickle symbol was created during the Russian Revolution in a contest held to create a Soviet emblem. The hammer and sickle signifies the socialist alliance of the industrial working class and the peasants. Yevgeny Ivanovich Kamzolkin won the contest with his entry:

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The symbol of the hammer and the sickle represents the "alliance of the workers of the world" since the hammer refers to industrial workers (who used to have to hammer out metal for production) and the sickle refers to agricultural workers (who used to have use a sickle to harvest grain). It was created for Vladmir Lenin by a design committee during the Russian Revolution.

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