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Have a Desire for Communist Propaganda? There’s an App for That
Newsbusters ^ | June 14, 2010 | Jeff Poor

Posted on 06/14/2010 9:40:02 AM PDT by Rufus2007

Can't get enough of a brutal dictator responsible for substantial human rights atrocities including millions of deaths, all in the name of a failed ideology? iTunes has just the thing for you.

Developer Eigthart, Ltd. presents the iStalin: FREE Communist Posters for the People iPhone/iPad application. The developer's Web site describes the app as a means to "spread the communist glory." (h/t @SetonMotley)

"Good news, comrades! Finally, after years of struggle the Industrialization of the Soviet Union paid off. From the creators of the Communist Manifesto, the October Revolution and the Perestroika comes the best Soviet Union product since Kalashnikov - iStalin! Finally the people will have the privilege to create Soviet posters themselves and spread the communist glory!"

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; News/Current Events; Philosophy
KEYWORDS: bloggersandpersonal; communism; fascism; iphone; marxism; obama; propaganda; putin; russia; socialism; sovietunion; stalin; technology; ussr; vladimirputin
What every iPhone user needs - a reminder of the glory days of the old Soviet Union.
1 posted on 06/14/2010 9:40:03 AM PDT by Rufus2007
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To: Rufus2007

Is this for real? It sounds like a “People’s Cube” spoof.


2 posted on 06/14/2010 9:46:09 AM PDT by hawkboy
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To: Rufus2007

Free market capitalism at its’ best. I guess there’s a market for commie propaganda so capitalism has filled the void.


3 posted on 06/14/2010 9:50:05 AM PDT by Dayman
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To: Rufus2007

If the FCC imposes British regulation and nationalisation on our news media we’ve had it. How much more confiscation will the American people allow before taking the upper hand?


4 posted on 06/14/2010 9:55:19 AM PDT by Paperdoll ( On the cutting edge)
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To: Rufus2007

Since Apple has to approve the apps, would they also approve a neonazi propaganda app?

Communism and Nazism are both vial political ideologies that have killed millions upon millions of people.


5 posted on 06/14/2010 9:58:12 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (Throw the bums out in 2010.)
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To: Rufus2007

They probably funded it with grants from the same outfits that bankroll NPR.


6 posted on 06/14/2010 10:02:45 AM PDT by NaughtiusMaximus (Mexico presents a more profound threat to our territorial integrity than Germany or Japan ever did.)
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Have a Desire for Communist Propaganda? There’s an App for That

Isn't it called 'The New York Times Reader'?

7 posted on 06/14/2010 10:14:40 AM PDT by jjotto ("Ya could look it up!")
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