The origin of the five-pointed star can be traced back to the Russian Civil War, and the designer is unknown. The most common saying about the origin of the five-pointed star is that at that time, in order to distinguish the soldiers stationed in Moscow from the soldiers returning to Russia from the front lines of Germany and Austria, Russian officers asked every soldier stationed in the army to wear a five-pointed star on his hat. Later, these troops joined the Soviet Red Army, so they painted the five-pointed star red to represent socialism, which is the origin of the red five-pointed star. Another theory refers to the meeting between Lev Trotsky and Krylenko, the origin of the red pentagram, when Krylenko was wearing a green pentagram symbolizing Esperanto. When Trotsky learned that the five corners of the green five-pointed star respectively represented five continents, he came up with the idea of using the red five-pointed star as a symbol of * * * productism.

The five-pointed star is usually a symbolic symbol of * * * capitalism and socialism. The pentagram is a red pentagram with no inscribed pentagram.