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The five-pointed red star is a symbol of Communism and represents the five fingers of the worker's hand, as well as the five (inhabited) continents. It was often used to represent the rule of the Communist Party.

Sometimes the hammer and sickle was depicted inside the red star.

The red star is or was used on several flags and coats of arms of communist states, for example on the flag of former Yugoslavia.

The Russian military newspaper is also called the Red Star ( Russian Krasnaya Zvezda).

"Red Star" was the name of several European sport clubs from communist countries. Among them there are two known footballFootball is the most widely played and watched team sport in the world. The game is often known as soccer or occasionally association football to differentiate it from other codes of football. Football is a ball game played between two teams of 11 players clubs:

• FK Red StarFudbalski Klub Crvena Zvezda ( , commonly known in English as Red Star is one of the two major association football teams in Belgrade, the capital city of Serbia and Montenegro. Their great rivals are Partizan Belgrade, and the derby matches between the t ( SerbianThe Serbian language or Serb language is one of the standard versions of the Central-South Slavic diasystem, formerly (and still frequently) called Serbo-Croatian. Serbian is used primarily in Serbia-Montenegro, Republika Srpska and by Serbs everywhere. Crvena Zvezda), BelgradeFor other uses see Belgrade (disambiguation Belgrade ( Serbian, Beograd , (population in Belgrade region 1,711,800 by census of 2002) is the capital of Serbia (since 1403) and Serbia and Montenegro (since 2003) and Yugoslavia ( 1918- 2003). The city lies
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The red star has been banned in some countries (i.e. in HungaryThe Republic of Hungary is a landlocked country in Central Europe, bordered by Austria, Slovakia, Ukraine, Romania, Serbia, Croatia and Slovenia. It is known locally as the Country of the Magyars or Magyarorszag''. Magyar Koztarsasag ( In Detail) ( Full s, it is a criminal offense to publicly show or use this symbol).

A five-pointed red star is also used by HeinekenHeineken (or Heineken Brouwerijen is a Dutch beer brewer, established in 1873, with more than 110 breweries in over 50 countries. Beer production is 9,000 million litres per year (9 GL/yr) (1999), ranking second in the world, after Budweiser. Heineken is and MozillaMozilla (a. the Mozilla Suite or the Mozilla Application Suite and codenamed SeaMonkey is a free, cross-platform Internet software suite, whose components include a web browser, an email client, an HTML editor and an IRC client. Its development was initia, but without any communist connotation.

"Red Star" is also the name of the first Kid Twist technopunk album.