Russia's Communist Party want to establish their country's copyright ownership over the red star symbol, and to ban foreign companies — such as Heineken brewery or Macy's department stores — from using the image on their logos.

State Duma deputy and chief lawyer for the Communist Party (KPRF) Vadim Solovyov said his comrades would send an appeal to Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev, asking him to ensure “protection of our symbols, including the red star — the symbol of victory that appears on our military flags.”

“Sometimes our symbols are used for commercial purposes, and the state must protect state symbols from commercial use by foreign firms,” Solovyov was quoted as saying. Foreigners “have nothing to do with our symbolism,” he added.

Russian companies could still be allowed to use the symbol, as long as they do not “intentionally distort it or use in an incorrect form,” Solovyov said. He did not specify what would constitute the correct or incorrect use of a red star image.

Red stars appear on the logos of a number of prominent Western brands, including Italy's San Pellegrino mineral water producer and Australia's Jetstar low-cost airline, in addition to Macy's and Heineken.

Most of the companies have been in operation since long before the Soviet and the Russia's Communist parties were founded.

If you thought this was one of our spoofs, you belong in the gulag, comrade! We copied this story directly from The Moscow Times. Our only contribution is the illustration with 14 capitalist red star logos we could locate quickly enough; we're sure there's more.

We're filing this in our "Life imitates the People's Cube" cabinet.

Glorious news comrades!After careful consideration the White House has declared the american flag to be a sad example of cultural appropriation.

President obama issued an apology to the Kremlin, saying "henceforth the flag of our nation will no longer be called the 'stars and stripes' but simply the 'stripes'.

The national anthem of the USA has been changed to 'Unspangled Banner'.

Irony on Steroids.

People who do not like private property want a universal symbol to be their property.

Also, although it's a white star like the ones on the former flag of the USA, the state of texas will no longer be called "lone star state" but simply "the lone state".

Thank you, Minitrue!

Perhaps, the solution is easier than most people think. We must simply replace all red stars with red squares by government mandate.

Likewise, all Hollywood stars will henceforth be called Hollywood squares. The subsequent reconstruction of the Hollywood Boulevard pavement, to replace the existing stars with squares, will create millions of new government jobs.

Texas will be renamed into the Lone Square State.

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And the square-spangled banner will look like this:

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"Whose broad stripes and bright squares thru the perilous fight, ..."

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@ Genosse, ah, Comrade Minitrue : Iz yur Mustash looken layk Herr Hitler odzer looken layk Marx (dzä Growcho) ? Iz kultschural apropporschn yn äni käjs !

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Amärika olso Shwayn ! Hir vatch :



Arsh zäro Prablem ! Arsh ävri bodi häz. Mustash Prablem !
Vot iz yur Yunaytyt Kanzler Adresse ? Iz Vaschinton, ja ?


P.S. Vaz iz "ENDORST" ? Iz Innen-door "st" ?
____Iz Innen-door ikvol Bäk-door ? Vot iz Bäk-door "st" ??? _--__Iz yur Kanzler Bäk-door ?

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Hopeless !
It's getting worse...

Now Herr Hitler appropriates Frau Merkel !

so, Frau Merkel goes imperial :

close-up __( you know, all Dschärmän Hands are equal - but... )

and wouldn't ya think, now Her Hitler goes überimperial :

there you go : Great Dictator, and Little Dictator(ette), like Great & Little Satan - right ?

Here some HOPE for CHANGE :
Herr Hitler starts appropriating Red Star*. Voll relaxed - from Berlin Bunker, cushy sofa !
No Blitzkrieg, and forget Stalingrad ! History rolled back !!!

* ACHTUNG : Pentagram (Fünfzack) ! Not Sechszack (Judenstern) !

______________Cultural Appropriation™ becomes Neue Wunderwaffe !



and now just wait & see :

Rückzugsgebiete (retreat areas) in form of Safe Spaces™ !
Nahkampf (hand-to-hand combat), using microaggressions™ in place of bayonets !
Trommelfeuer (barrages) fully automated rapid shooting actuators - in form of triggerings™ !

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( while totally, like, multitasking, lil' me overlooked to post this Nr-1 reaction of my synapses )

Red Square wrote: ... simply replace all red stars with red squares by government mandate.
... all Hollywood stars .. henceforth .. Hollywood squares.
... reconstruction of Hollywood Boulevard pavement, to replace the stars with squares.
... will create millions of new government jobs.
________________________________________EE = ( ( ( K squared ) squared ) squared )
Texas .. renamed .. the Lone Square State.

__ where EE = Economic Effect
__ and K = Keynes
__ while ' squared ' is that thingamajig, your math teacher hammered into your skull, for naught.

With no slightest wisp of cozying up, this is a stroke of genius, Red Genius of course.
It's not easy to laugh these days (here) ; I got a fit of laughter of a quality high above sex.