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Rafiq
8th July 2011, 22:00
What is that one red flag with a blue circle in the middle with a falcon in it? What is that stand for?

Tommy4ever
8th July 2011, 22:06
Pic?

Sasha
8th July 2011, 22:11
this one?
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/77/Flag_of_Die_Falken.svg/250px-Flag_of_Die_Falken.svg.png

SJD - die falken, an german socialist/social-dem youth organisation
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sozialistische_Jugend_Deutschlands_%E2%80%93_Die_F alken

follow up to the pre-war youth wing of the social democratic party but now i believe independent, for sure a lot more radical than the official SPD youth.

Rafiq
8th July 2011, 22:13
^ Yup, that's the one, thanks.

ReVoLuTiOnArYbUtGaNgStEr
8th July 2011, 22:14
this one?
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/77/Flag_of_Die_Falken.svg/250px-Flag_of_Die_Falken.svg.png

SJD - die falken, an german socialist social-dem youth organisation
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sozialistische_Jugend_Deutschlands_%E2%80%93_Die_F alken

Germans and your Bird symbols, Avarian symbolism FTW.

Zeus the Moose
8th July 2011, 22:21
In the United States in the 1930s, there was a children's group of the Socialist Party called the Red Falcons. My understanding of it was that it was kind of like a socialist version of the Scouts (something which we could use today for leftist parents, I think!) I don't know if there were other Red Falcon groups in countries beside the US or Germany, but it's possible that there were.

Martin Blank
8th July 2011, 22:33
In the United States in the 1930s, there was a children's group of the Socialist Party called the Red Falcons. My understanding of it was that it was kind of like a socialist version of the Scouts (something which we could use today for leftist parents, I think!) I don't know if there were other Red Falcon groups in countries beside the US or Germany, but it's possible that there were.

There were ... and are (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Falcons).

Red Falcons were/are a competitor with both the Boy/Girl Scouts and the Young Pioneers. Apparently, they are still going strong.

Sasha
8th July 2011, 23:28
Germans and your Bird symbols, Avarian symbolism FTW.

i always associated it more with the thunderbirds and what was the name of that other similair puppet show, he had something with an bird too

Rooster
8th July 2011, 23:34
i always associated it more with the thunderbirds and what was the name of that other similair puppet show, he had something with an bird too

Stingray? Captain Scarlet? Joe 90? Terrahawks?

EDIT: Terrahawks has this

http://www.retromodo.co.uk/img/p/5917-2731-large.jpg

Sasha
8th July 2011, 23:41
think i meant captain scarlet, somehow i though he had an falcon or hawk like symbol but i think i have been melting different mental images into one.