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Published February 26, 2010, 12:00 AM

Red Star


The Red Star label, with its hammer and sickle, clearly shows Communist Party influence on the Finnish cooperative movement in the mid-1920s. Following the break with the Communist Party in 1929, the label was changed to pine trees. Image courtesy of the Immigration History Research Center.
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