Why, Cafe Press, who does the LoT swag, has over 800 CCCP items to choose from.

ETA: I like the selection on this site - escpecially the Space Shuttle shirt.

Ugh, poseur rebel just wanted some press.

I know € would only wear it for the mischievous silliness, but I personally find the wearing a shirt for an overthrown regime famous for repression to be gross. This made me think about China, and I realized I probably wouldn't have a problem with a Chinese-American wearing a "People's Republic of China" shirt because that's their deal...but if the current regime were overthrown then I'd feel differently. Weird, eh?

It's fashion. And Johnny Wier is hip to rebel fashions of the moment. Hell, I did the same thing only not on national TV. Yeah, I think he tries too hard and is a posseur, but go to Goth Day at Disneyland as see oodles of posseurs who "go Goth" for the day. Big deal.

I understand the need to mess with people using fashion - I used to do it a lot. But I still can't say that a shirt supporting communist Russia is cool. At its worst, Stalin killed 20 million people. At it's best, it still had full control over the media, over freedom of expression, over challenging authority. What they did to their kids in their education system is not funny.

Wearing a funky outfit - go for it. But wearing a CCCP shirt because you have freedom of expression doesn't make much sense to me.

Speaking of China, I am not really happy about Beijing being awarded the 08 summer Olympics.

That being said, however, some of the venues being built there are pretty cool. The entire side of the main basketball arena being built is going to be a TV so that people who couldn't get tickets can see what's happening.

The entire side of the building. How cool is that? They are having s afew engineering issues, but they are still thinking they'll have it done.

When I see a CCCP shirt I tend to assume it's not so much a "yay weren't they cool" but more of a "ha-ha! you lost! now we treat you like a cartoon character."

That day may come and sooner than we think!

Donna

So, wearing a shirt with Stalin on it is roughly equivalent to wearing one with Mickey Mouse?

In 2006, yeah, sort of.

And just because a regime has been overthrown makes its symbols verbotten? There are plenty of symbols at the Olympic games that are offensive to most of the world population ... the American flag being chief among them.


Get over it.