The video — which was later deleted — contains images of soldiers with medals that have the hammer and sickle, the symbol for communism, and “CCCP,” an abbreviation for the Soviet Union.

The hammer and sickle symbol, shown atop an old Soviet flag at World War II Victory Day celebrations in Bulgaria in May 2011, cannot be trademarked, a European Union high court has ruled.

The hammer and sickle has come to represent communist movements around the world. It also was a feature of the flag for the former Soviet Union, which spawned from Russia's communist revolution ...

The CCCP partially visible underneath the hammer and sickle is Cyrillic and stands for Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (known in English as the USSR). "Meanwhile two wrestlers and an Irish man ...