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  • Letter To The Editor: There’s Nothing ‘Cool’ About The Chinese Communist Flag

    07/13/2025 3:23:01 PM PDT · by DogByte6RER · 19 replies
    The Press-Enterprise ^ | June 10, 2025 | Rick Reiss
    How disturbing to read your published “cool fact” (p. A2, June 8) about China’s Communist flag. To use the adjective “cool” along with the flag of an Orwellian communist government is just … twisted. Does Communism naturally bring about a “cool” word association within the Southern California News Group? Newsflash: There is nothing “cool” about communism whatsoever. It is a totalitarian ideology; a blight upon humanity. It belongs on the ash heap with Nazism and fascism. 1990s era French sociologists credibly calculated that communism caused 100 million deaths, including some 65 million in Communist China alone. Yet SCNG publishes this...
  • Poland: Your Ché Guevara T-shirt Can Land You In Jail

    01/23/2010 4:36:11 PM PST · by DogByte6RER · 54 replies · 1,519+ views
    The Christian Science Monitor ^ | January 20, 2010 | Hilary Heuler
    Poland: Your Ché Guevara T-shirt can land you in jail Poland's revised criminal code includes a ban on communist symbols, such as the red star or hammer and sickle, though one artist says "they are no longer meaningful." By Hilary Heuler • A local, slice-of-life story from a Monitor correspondent. Evocative symbols of Europe’s troubled past, such as the swastika, have long been illegal in countries across the continent. But now Poland has gone one step further, revising its criminal code to include a ban on symbols of communism. Poles can now be fined or even put in prison if...