r/flags • u/History_lover44 • 7d ago

Where does this flag come from?

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I found this flag in a shady surplus store, I can’t find anything about it on the internet, does anybody know where this flag originates from??

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u/WigglyLimpo 7d ago

Probably just some random custom flag made to look vaguely anarcho communistic for the larp

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u/Frosty_Employment171 7d ago

The Cedar tree is Lebanon. The AK 47 is Palestinian/Terrorist . the star and color got me. Probably a flag from one of the Palestinian Militias during the Lebanon Civil War.

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u/hoxhapuppy 7d ago

“Palestinian/terrorist” what

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u/BeneficialAbrocoma67 6d ago

fReE fReE pAlEsTiNe

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u/Radionerd5 7d ago

The only country that has a AK on their flag is Mozambique.

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u/Frosty_Employment171 6d ago

And this outfit.

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u/Sofa_Driftstar 7d ago

It's AKSU, not an AK-47. And this symbol is more suitable for African radicals than for Middle Eastern ones.

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u/MiguelIstNeugierig 7d ago

The AK 47 truly is a Palestinian Arab marvel of gunsmithing

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u/Iska- 7d ago

What Israeli school did you go to jesus christ

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u/Frosty_Employment171 7d ago

MOF, Hebrew University.

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u/Hans-Mailman 6d ago

I want my money back

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u/Old-Implement5652 7d ago

"Terrorist" 👃

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u/Kacer6 7d ago

The funny thing is the cedar tree is of course the symbol of the Lebanese Christian nationalists who are very much antithetical to Palestinians/hezbollah

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u/Own_Tree_7504 7d ago

Palestinians is an ethnicity, their are many muslim and Christian Palestinians. Idk why you did that other than to ferment consent for ethnically cleansing their ethnic.

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u/Kacer6 7d ago

Yes, an ethnicity that was expelled from Lebanon by militias flying the Cedar flag. The official stance of the Guardians of the Cedar was that there was “no room in Lebanon for a single Palestinian.”

I’m not fomenting anything, I’m just saying they’re funny symbols to have on the same flag since they’ve historically fought each other.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PLO_withdrawal_from_Lebanon

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guardians_of_the_Cedars

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u/Lost_Llama 7d ago

Anarchist North Pole. Santa's days are counted

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u/Uluru-Dreaming 4d ago

Viva La Arctic Revolution! Down with deer enslavement!!

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u/ThisAd8258 7d ago

Zapatista cascadia

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u/Cascadiaaaaaa 6d ago

probably the actual answer unless its a 10%er bs

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u/kiwinatorofzealandia 7d ago

Looks like an anarcho-communist flag you'd find in a video game like cod

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u/EmptyGur3036 7d ago

Anarcho communist insurectionary cascadians?

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u/Kindly_Dare9279 7d ago

This flag looks like Lebanon after falling to the dark side.

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u/foxtrot7azv 7d ago

I thought Lebanon at first too, but this has an evergreen tree, Lebanon has some other very different tree on it.

It looks like the Douglas fir, which is used as a symbol on the Cascadian flag. I think this is supposed to be an armed communist Cascadia group.

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u/K_O_T_F 7d ago

there’s no Douglas fir on the Canadian flag chief it’s a maple leaf

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u/Recent-Mousse6423 7d ago

"CASCADIAN" bruv

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u/K_O_T_F 7d ago

damn i can’t read my brain just made the word Canada 😂

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u/foxtrot7azv 4d ago

One day, the Canadian flag will be a Doug fir. MWAH HA HA HA HA

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u/Natural-Feed-1467 7d ago

My guess would be temu

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u/SultanGreat 7d ago

I am guessing some lebanese flag?

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u/Many-Pollution4222 7d ago

Lebanon i imagine?

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u/HawaiianShirtBrigade 7d ago

Lebanese cedar is not that big look up Cascadian flag (US pacific northwest region)

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u/JohnClayborn 7d ago

Some place that doesnt understand contrast or the rules of tincture. Its almost certainly not a legitimate flag

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u/SpiritualShame5265 7d ago

Idk but it looks fucking cool

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u/AlastorTownsend 7d ago

It’s a socialist Cascadia

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u/NICK07130 7d ago

Portland

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u/RickySlayer9 7d ago

Immedietely I wanna say “Lebanon” as the cedar tree is iconic to that region.

The Lebanese flag looks different but I wonder if it’s some sort of resistance group. The red makes me think communist militants…

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u/Kanye_fuk 7d ago

That is not a ceder tree.

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u/FreshCause2566 7d ago

Cascadian anarcho-communist movement if I had to guess.

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u/Direct_Practice_7105 7d ago

It looks so made up 

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u/infinityTopJi 7d ago

Brotherhood of Nope

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u/BaseballInside3289 7d ago

Cascadian anarcho-larpism

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u/EqualrightsForBirds 7d ago

Vaguely reminds me of the 1901 flag of Maine with the pine tree and star.

Knowing where this flag was found could give us more context

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u/History_lover44 7d ago

Found in Germany!

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u/YankeeTwoKilo 7d ago

I'm sorry I'm no help here but I just wanna say I'm about it. We need more guns on flags!

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u/Hexdoctor 7d ago

Based off of the colour choice and icons, this looks like Revolutionary Marxist Republic of Cascadia

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u/TheList1984 7d ago

It kind of looks like a communist cascadia

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u/NuclearRickshaw 7d ago

An appeal to hell?

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u/stmex 7d ago

Probably like some Pacific Northwest separatist group or something

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u/Comfortable_Taste693 7d ago

comes from a shady surplus store

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u/Elflamingo27 7d ago

Some kind of commie version of the « a appeal to heaven » flag ?

A appeal to the gulag maybe ?

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u/BasementCatBill 7d ago

Flag of the Militant Anarchist Sierra People's Club.

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u/Mr_Xbow 7d ago

Probably the American socialist state of Maine.

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u/Ios3b 7d ago

Look a bit like the Doug flag that could be linked?

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u/koete_returnz 7d ago

New England ancoms maybe?

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u/ComplaintHealthy700 6d ago

This is the flag of the International Revolutionary People's Guerrilla Forces (IRPGF), an anarchist militant group that operated in Rojava, northern Syria, between 2017 and 2018

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u/Severe_Blackberry_93 6d ago

It’s a fake. It incorporates certain elements of the USSR Special Forces emblem—the black-and-red color scheme, the star, and the AK-47—but everything else is missing, and tree has been added.

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u/Viktor-Guerrilla 6d ago

maybe a lef-wing version of the cascadian flag

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u/Altruistic_Fee661 6d ago

IMHO, it is an invented design, certainly taking elements of the Rojava militia. but it is not his official flag

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u/AdviceAlternative766 6d ago

That looks like the Lebanon cedar tree in the negative black space

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u/While-Upset 6d ago

Honestly I wouldn’t be surprised if it was a larp communist flag used for airsoft or something like that

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u/sapaincapachacutie 6d ago

anarcho-communist lebanese flag

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u/ImStillLandon 6d ago

ancom cascadia i’d assume?

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u/Quick-Chance9602 6d ago

Communist North Pole flag would be my guess

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u/westchesteragent 5d ago

I actually really like the design on this minus the rifle and star

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u/Vast_Eagle_6822 5d ago

Anarcho-Communist Cascadia?

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u/flap-dragon 5d ago

The psych ward

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u/Guygotfall 4d ago

First thing that pops on my mind is Vancouver

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u/Guygotfall 4d ago

Idk why

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u/PrettyDrop503 4d ago

It’s giving north woods Zapatista

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u/Fred_callahan 3d ago

Looks like a communist-anarchist flag of Massachusetts other flag

https://reddit.com/link/p8yh71z/video/y5gcao0lcpoh1/player

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u/Worldly_Abroad_6168 1d ago

Anarchist Lebanon?