Flag of Democratic Kampuchea Flag of Democratic Kampuchea The flag of Democratic Kampuchea consisted of the golden Angkor Wat in the red background. It was adopted on 5 January 1976 during Khmer Rouge rule under Cambodia. This flag is similar to the flag of Vietnam. It was unique among the communist state national flags without any symbolic red star or hammer and sickle. The flag of Democratic Kampuchea replaced the flag of the Khmer Republic, becoming the official flag of Cambodia in 5 January 1976 after the Khmer Rouge came to power in the country in 17 April 1975. During that period, it used
Flag of Vietnam the northern village of Lũng Xuyên, was unknown to the Vietnamese public before Tùng's research was published. According to a poem Tiến wrote, the red background represents blood while the yellow foreground represents "the color of our race’s skin", the five points of the star represent intellectuals, peasants, workers, traders and soldiers. Tiến's poem reads in part: <poem> ... All those of red blood and yellow skin Together we fight under the nation’s sacred flag The flag is soaked with our crimson blood, shed for the nation The yellow star is the colour of our race’s skin Stand up, quickly!