red star

symbol often historically associated with communist ideology and more recently with socialism
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red star
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red star

Summary

red star is a symbol[1]. It draws 619 Wikipedia views per month (symbol category, ranking #32 of 135).[2]

Key Facts

  • red star's image is recorded as Red star.svg[3].
  • red star's instance of is recorded as symbol[4].
  • red star's instance of is recorded as flag or coat of arms[5].
  • red star's subclass of is recorded as five-pointed star[6].
  • red star's Commons category is recorded as Red stars[7].
  • red star's color is recorded as red[8].
  • red star's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/03753x[9].
  • red star's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Red stars[10].
  • red star's Commons gallery is recorded as Red star[11].
  • red star's different from is recorded as Krasnaya Zvezda[12].
  • red star's different from is recorded as red giant[13].
  • red star's Microsoft Academic ID is recorded as 2776583871[14].
  • red star's museum-digital tag ID is recorded as 4553[15].

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Designation and Status

Recorded instance of include symbol[4] and flag or coat of arms[5].

Cultural Significance

Things named for red star include Red Star OS[16], a Linux distribution[17], founded in 2014[18] and Order of the Red Star[19], a socialist order of merit[20], in Soviet Union[21], founded in 1930[22].

Why It Matters

red star draws 619 Wikipedia views per month (symbol category, ranking #32 of 135).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 24 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[23] It is known by 21 alternative names across languages and contexts.[24]

Entities named for it include Red Star OS[16], a Linux distribution[17], founded in 2014[18] and Order of the Red Star[19], a socialist order of merit[20], in Soviet Union[21], founded in 1930[22].

References

Programmatic citations — every numbered marker resolves to a verifiable graph row below.

Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  8. [10] . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] . wikidata.org.

Inverse relationships (entities pointing at this one)

  1. [16] . wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [19] . wikidata.org. → on this site

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [17] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [18] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  3. [20] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  4. [21] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  5. [22] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [23] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [24] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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