The flag of the USSR shows us that the hammer and sickle are symbols of communism and socialism. The hammer symbolizes urban industrial workers while the sickle symbolizes agricultural workers (peasants)—who together, as the Proletarian class, form the state. It basically shows us that the only way to greatness is hard work and labor. In the other hand, America has it the other way around. Which made the two superpowers; enemies, Resulting in the beginning of the Cold War (1946-1991).