The yellow symbols on red design is only considered to be prototypically Communist, because the most important Communist states ever (China and the Soviet Union) had them, as does Vietnam. North Korea does incorporate the star symbolism and red, but its star is white and the red is joined by blue stripes, to just mention a few other examples. Of non-European Soviet-aligned states, Cuba, Ethiopia, Somalia, and Laos also kept the flag, Benin had a red star on green background, South Yemen combined elements from the flag of the Federation of South Arabia with the Arab Liberation Flag, Afghanistan, except for a short time, went with a horizontal tricolor of the previous flag's colours, Mongolia has a vertical tricolor redвЂ“blueвЂ“red with a yellow Soyombo symbol.

Except for the Soviet Union, the other Pact members either kept their countries previous flag unchanged or at most defaced with the new coat of arms (East Germany, Bulgaria, Romania) or a small yellow start (Albania). Among the Warsaw Pact countries, the only ones who had a red flag were the Soviet Union and Albania, but in the latter case the flag had been red from the beginning. Most socialist states didn't have a red flag as their national flag.

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