The whole russian thing?

[CKY_Alliance]

I'm sure at least some of them fall into that category.

The only people I've seen wearing them are scruffy haired college aged misanthropes who WOULD put that much thought into a TShirt.

MM perhaps..i just rember seeing them in hot-topic..i believe i have seen them there...and i doubt anyone who goes and buys one from there is doing it for a "cause",but then again some of the people you have seen wearing them may.

[Army]

If they are 20-25 yrs old or less, they have no idea what the Soviet was all about, other than the watered down version they may have been taught in high school. The USSR died in 1989, along with the cold war....something else they have no clue about.

CCCP, red stars, and hammer/sickle mean nothing to them, other than that they USED to be controversial.

[Triangle]

On a related note,
Half of the guys I see that wear shirts with Che on them, don't know who he was, or what he did. They only tell me he was a great man.



CIA + Che = LOL

[CoolHand]

If they are 20-25 yrs old or less, they have no idea what the Soviet was all about, other than the watered down version they may have been taught in high school. The USSR died in 1989, along with the cold war....something else they have no clue about.

CCCP, red stars, and hammer/sickle mean nothing to them, other than that they USED to be controversial.

That's not entirely true. I'm 27 and I have a very good recollection of the old USSR.

However, I'll grant you that I'm an exception rather than the rule. Always been fascinated by the evil empires of history, so I've taken a lot of time to learn what I wasn't there to witness.

I do remember the collapse, saw the Berlin Wall come down, though I was just a little shaver at the time.

[REDRT]

I was going to say something to a young guy about his USSR sweatshirt in the check out at Wal-mart, but when he talked I realized he was Russian. I guess who better wear that than a Russian?

[FiXeL]

Funny it becomes popular all of a sudden... Just after the fall of the berlin wall and the end of the sovjet union you could get loads and loads of former warschaupact army surplus, and dirt cheap too.

About the swastika thing: people over here in europe are still very sensitive about that and consider it very rude if you show that symbol in public. Even though the war has been over 60 years ago, it is still a sensitive topic.

[Eagle]

On this day in 1922 the USSR was established

[CaptaiN_JacK]

The kids wearing the USSR symbol on green cloth jackets are usually skinny, pale, and downtrodden. They just want to show people the consequences of the Communist system.

[warbeak2099]

I'm sure it one of the cool fad retro "80" things. Frankly I don't care as far as I'm concerned or goverment is just as guilty as atrocities as the russian goverment was.

Yes because we have systematically murdered over 50 million people by methods such as organized starvation, firearm execution, forced labor, poison gas, hanging, rape, and the ever favorite plugging the orifices of the body with corn until the stomach and intestines explode. Ignorant moron...

[REDRT]

Personally I miss the cold war. It was a time where everyone was patriotic/proud to be an american. It was us vrs them. Impending doom in the horizon with an under lieing fear kept us on our toes. Maybe if the cold war had not ended we wouldn't have been so lacks leading up to the events of 9-11?

[kosmo]

Personally I miss the cold war. It was a time where everyone was patriotic/proud to be an american.

Uh, no they werent.

[REDRT]

Uh, no they werent.

Well there was more of it then.

[kosmo]

Well there was more of it then.

No, there wasnt.

[CoolHand]

No, there wasnt.

Were you there?

I had no idea we had 40-50 yr old folks posting here regularly.

[flashgordon]

At the end of the day that fervent Cold War nationalism was fueled by fear.

And In my opinion, if you see someone wearing the hammer and sickle go up and ask them (in a non-confrontational way, mind you) why they are wearing that shirt. I've sported Che or the hammer and sickle before, but in no way endorse the atrocities commited by dictators.