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Flag of Socialist Republic of Vietnam hanging in Hanoi

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Creator
Margery H. Freeman
Date created
May 1997
Location
Hanoi, Vietnam
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This photograph copyright ©1997. Terms of use

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  • Contemporary life in Vietnam: Photographs and text describe contemporary life in Vietnam and the impact of economic and social reforms since the 1980s. (Page 1)

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The national flag of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam hangs from a building in Hanoi

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The national flag of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam hangs from a building in Hanoi. This red flag with a single gold star in the center was adopted by the North Vietnamese in 1955, and then used for the entire nation after the South Vietnamese regime fell in 1975.

The red background symbolizes Communism. The five points of the gold star are said to represent five groups of people praised by the nation’s Communist revolutionaries: farmers, workers, intellectuals, youths, and soldiers.