One of the (increasingly few) things that I remember from my school days was that the Red Cross movement was started by a Swiss guy called Henry Dunent.
He did this after seeing the huge number of casualties who had just been left to die after the Battle of Solferno in 1859 (I think, it was 50 years ago that I learned this stuff!)
The Red Cross emblem was chose simply because the offices of the organisation were established in Geneva and so a modified form of the Swiss flag was used with a red cross against a white background that we know today.
Clear to see, a based on the flag of a neutral country, and an agenda that was not partisan, it immediately took hold.
That is why the Red Cross has a red cross on a white ground. It's got sod all to do with communism.
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