Disgusting
Let's say your kid came home proudly sporting this T-shirt:
You'd most likely be upset. No one wants their kid to be a Nazi. So what would you think if little Johnny came home wearing this jacket:
Big deal, you say?
Why? Didn't Hitler kill enough people for you? After all. Adolf only killed about 12 million (Give or take a million or so).
The old Soviet Union, or USSR, (CCCP in Cyrillic) was way more efficient at killing people. It's estimated that over 60 million people were either outright murdered, or died of starvation under Soviet Communism. Not to mention the Gulags (slave labor camps) and the "re-education" camps and their infamous "psychiatric"hospitals. Let us not forget the secret police.
The company selling the jacket is called North Face. Please Boycott them. Buy your jackets and coats from someone else.
Go here and let them know what you think, but be polite. I did.
Hat Tip: Michelle Malkin
Bogus I cry, Bogus! I read my liberal history book Stalin was trying to save those 60million who were murdered by neocons trying to turn the country into a thocracy. Under Stalin the country soard econmically and achieved greatness in the sciences has done more to promote world equality and the welfare of the individial more than any other country in the 21st centuary.
Posted by: Just another republican | Friday, July 07, 2006 at 06:12
You're about three years behind on this one. This sort of commie chic clothing has been around in great preponderance since the late 1990s and I've been a fan of it since then as well. Wearing clothing with the defunct nations name and symbols enblazened all over it is a way of proclaiming total victory in the war of ideologies. How do you think the Soviets would feel about their most holy of symbols being marketed by capitalist companies to American teenagers for the purposes of fashion? Communism has been reduced to the party of extreme radicals at best and a quaint novelty at worst. You're comparison to a Hitler shirt is quite poor as it proclaims an agreement with the genocidal facist. The CCCP jacket, on the other hand, is free of agreement with communism and by its very nature of being sold in a retail store is an ironic and direct refutation of everything communism stands for.
Posted by: Krat | Friday, July 07, 2006 at 06:54
Wait, so if I wear a CCCP shirt its a victory over Ideals shirt, but if its a Hitler shirt its not a victory over ideals?
"How do you think the Soviets would feel about their most holy of symbols being marketed by capitalist companies to American teenagers for the purposes of fashion?"
They're laughing. They just got away with genocide and we think its a joke. I'm wearing a "I killed a jew" t-shirt Everyone laugh its so funny!
Posted by: Just another republican | Friday, July 07, 2006 at 11:14
Thanks for the tip... I sent them a note expressing my disgust.
Posted by: Braden Ellis | Friday, July 07, 2006 at 14:06
I sent them a comment as well. How disgusting.
"How do you think the Soviets would feel about their most holy of symbols being marketed by capitalist companies to American teenagers for the purposes of fashion?"
Fashion? Try money.
If American teens respected the country they live in-which, most of them do-they'd not be interested in a jacket portraying communism as if it were a baseball team.
Teens unfortunately become an easy target for items like this.
Posted by: thirdee | Friday, July 07, 2006 at 14:24
I happen to like the jacket and puchased one today. It will go nice with my CCCP t-shirt from RussianLegacy.com. It also will go with the Soviet Flag that I have in my living room.
No, I am not some liberal puke, but a Reagan Republican. But, I have always looked to promote the 'bad' country as it helps motivate US citizens to great things.
Posted by: Earth Rooster | Friday, July 07, 2006 at 23:16