Flag of Angola TB
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Owner:
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shellbadger
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Released:
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Wednesday, January 26, 2011
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Origin:
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Texas, United States
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Travel bugs seem to regularly disappear from urban caches and at caching events. Please drop this item in rural or Premium Member Only caches. Transport the bug in the original plastic bag for as long as the bag lasts—then the chain and tag won't tangle with other items. Otherwise, take this bug everywhere—no permission is needed to leave the US.
The national flag of Angola came into use at independence on November 11, 1975. It is split horizontally into an upper red half and a lower black half. As in some other African countries, this flag is a modification of the ruling party's flag. The guerilla movement and later governing party, the Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA), used the same design with a golden star in the center. Red stood for socialism and black for Africa. The star was modeled after the red star of the Soviet Union, which sponsored the MPLA.
Later the explanation was made less party-specific: The red is for the blood spilt by Angolans during their independence struggles, while the black is for the continent of Africa. The symbol in the middle is of a crossed cog wheel (representing workers and industry) and machete (representing the peasantry) with a gold star. It was adopted during a time when Angola had a Marxist government, and thus was supposed to evoke the image of the hammer and sickle found on the flag of the former Soviet Union, a common symbol of Communism.
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