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The emblems of the state of workers and peasants - the red star, the hammer and sickle - appeared in the revolutionary months of 1917-1918.\r\nOn the eve of the first anniversary of the Great October Revolution, the "All-Russian Central Executive Committee News" reported: \r\n"On the 6th of November, after a rally on eleven of Moscow's squares, a burning of the emblems of the old order is to occur, along with a grandiose illumination of Moscow. \r\nAt 9:30 the emblems that embody the new order within themselves will be raised." \r\nIn the evening Muscovites were witness to an unusual spectacle: the double-headed eagle topped with a crown was burned at the stake - the emblem of the deposed tsar's autocracy. \r\nOn the next day, throngs of people from all parts of the capital marched to Red Square in the first October demonstration. The streets, the squares, the facades of buildings were decorated with many red discs with a gold hammer and sickle. \r\nThe first depictions of the hammer and sickle followed the emblems of the plow and the hammer that decorated the military banners of the revolutionary army units.\r\n\r\nLL: 5