04 March 2009 - Why not just wear a swastika?

Adidas is not just using "communist chic" to sell its clothes; it's actively celebrating the Soviet Union in all its totalitarian awfulness:



The ad for the hat actually exhorts consumers to "Show your love for the former USSR." This goes beyond Beatles tongue-in-cheek humor to actual adulation.

Apparently, mass famine, executions, forced labor, antisemitism, environmental destruction, tyranny and political persecution are now fashionable.