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The basic design of the
national flag of Vietnam, officially called the Socialist Republic of
Vietnam, dates from the 1940s and was adopted by liberation forces
fighting for Vietnamese independence against Japan.
When the current design of
the national flag was first adopted on the 30th of November 1955,
Vietnam was partitioned along the 17th parallel and the flag only
related to the communist led northern half of Vietnam, called the
Democratic Republic of Vietnam.
The southern half of the country,
backed by France (later on by the United States), was called the
Republic of South Vietnam.
A sustained hostility
between the two Vietnam's led to the collapse of the Republic of South
Vietnam government in 1976 and to the unification of the country
under its current name of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam.
The flag
of the north was re-adopted on the 2nd of July 1976 to represent one
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