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1923 the USSR dropped the hammer ... "
George Orwell

Liliputins. What, the heck, is this?
http://stihi.ru/2021/11/24/7101


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Drop the hammer is an idiom that can mean:
To punish or deal with someone or something with great severity or ruthlessness.
Bringing a pending act to fruition.
Usually, connotates an act which will have serious consequences.
Also used in reference to quickly increase speed in a car by manipulating a manual transmission gear shift (the hammer).

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State Emblem of the Soviet Union
he project of the first version of the state emblem was accepted on 6 July 1923 by the 2nd session of the Central Executive Committee (CIK) and the version was completed on 22 September of that year.[1] This design was fixed in the 1924 Soviet Constitution: "The State Emblem of the USSR is composed of a sickle and a hammer on a globe depicted in the rays of the sun and framed by ears of wheat, with the inscription "proletarians of the world, unite!" in six languages—Russian, Ukrainian, Belarusian, Georgian, Armenian, Azerbaijani, with the Russian inscription in the centre. At the top of the Emblem is a five-pointed star."


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