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Martin Gore, 1985 (credit - ?)

Badge of Komsomol membership The All-Union Leninist Young Communist League (rus: Всесою́зный ле́нинский коммунисти́ческий сою́з молодёжи (ВЛКСМ)), usually known as Komsomol (rus: Комсомо́л, a syllabic abbreviation of the Russian kommunisticheskiy soyuz molodyozhi), was a political youth organization in the Soviet Union. 

Martin Gore by Lukas von Saint George, 1985

A red communist star and a hammer and sickle  Emblem of the Soviet Army The hammer and sickle or sickle and hammer is a Communist symbol that was conceived during the Russian Revolution. At the time of creation, the hammer stood for industrial laborers and the sickle for the peasantry; combined they stood for the worker-peasant alliance for socialism.

Martin Gore by Peter Mazel, 1986