Of course, the hammer and sickle is the symbol of communism, an ideology that has lead to the murder of over 100 million people in the last century. In fact my own family tree is missing large branches because many were wiped out by the Russian communists. Crazy world we live in with a far left American president and a Pope very sympathetic to Marxism. Just when you think left wing extremism has been defeated forever, shit like this happens.