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Poland to Ban Che Guevara's & Hitler's Images

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The iconic image of Che Guevara found adorning students' walls and t-shirts across the world could be banned in Poland under a government proposal to outlaw materials that incite "fascism and totalitarian systems".

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Che + Adolf = Che-dolf (or simply Chedolf).

Telegraph.co.uk wrote:By Matthew Day in Warsaw
Last Updated: 5:27PM BST 23 Apr 2009

Poland's equality minister, Elzbieta Radziszewska, wants to expand a Polish law prohibiting the production of fascist and totalitarian propaganda so that it includes clothing and anything else that could carry an image related to an authoritarian system.

Anybody found guilty could face a two-year prison sentence. Mrs Radziszewska said that the proposed amendment to current legislation "would help organisations fighting racism".

The proposal, which could see the faces of some of the leading lights of communist history such as Lenin and Trotsky removed from t-shirts and flags, reflects a Polish view on communism far different from the rose-tinted and romantic images often found in the West.

After experiencing 40 hard years of communism, as well as the horrors of Nazi occupation, few Poles have qualms equating under law the inequities of Nazism and communism.

"Communism was a terrible, murderous system that claimed millions of lives," said Professor Wojciech Roszkowski, a leading Polish historian and member of the European parliament.

"It was very similar to National Socialism, and there is no reason to treat those two systems, and their symbols, differently. Their glorification should be prohibited."

He added communism had accounted for the slaughter of thousands of Poles in the Katyn Massacre while its gulags had consumed countless millions of victims.

The proposed changes, which have already reached the committee stage in the Polish parliament, also testify to Polish determination to ensure that with the passing of time nobody starts to view the country's communist past with nostalgia.

In addition the Polish government hopes that tighter legislation will crack down on the trade in materials bearing Nazi emblems.

Markets in western Poland have profited from German neo-fascists buying Third-Reich memorabilia such as swastikas and pictures of Hitler that are prohibited under their own country's stringent regulations.

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On behalf of my own personal outrage and that of our beloved Che' Gourmet (away on a family emergency), I hereby DENOUNCE this NON-PERSON Elzbieta Radziszewska.

This is madness! What's next? The color RED? Two years in jail for wearing a red tee-shirt?

Please join me brothers and sisters, this sort of thing is just not to be tolerated.

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UPDATE:

A friend of the People's Cube (Mike W.) sent us this suggestion -

Mike wrote:To show how correct the Poles are in wanting to ban totalitarian cult images, why not design a Che-style T-shirt with Hitler's face on it? We can call him Che-dolf. You can market them side-by-side (I can get a Polish guy to do the wording if you wanted to have an online order page in Polish, just for fun) and see which one gets banned.

I made the design but I don't think the image will last long in any of the online stores, so making it in hi-rez and setting it up is likely to be a waste of time. And time is our most valuable asset. But in itself the idea is great.

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Brilliant idea. I'd proudly wear the T-Shirt.

Every time I see one those twenty-something neo-commie progressives wearing their Che(e)-shirt I want to puke. I asked one of them if they knew he was a Commie - blank stare - or if they were aware of the '66 proto-9/11 plot he and Uncle Fidel cooked up to detonate a devastating bomb in NYC... - blanker stare -

I swear, this is the Dumbest Generation yet.

Anonymous wrote:
I swear, this is the Dumbest Generation yet.

More to come, more to come... And the Pedagogues keep on Pedophiling the kid's brains!
Hooray for Illuminatism! (sound of puking)

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Grigori E.R. wrote:On behalf of my own personal outrage and that of our beloved Che' Gourmet (away on a family emergency), I hereby DENOUNCE this NON-PERSON Elzbieta Radziszewska.

This is madness! What's next? The color RED? Two years in jail for wearing a red tee-shirt?

Please join me brothers and sisters, this sort of thing is just not to be tolerated.
I'll let you know you have my support comrade. Are the Polish going to ban thoughts? Are they going to ban the Cube on their sites? I join in your denoucing.

Tom Jones
Must have a Che-Dolf T-shirt!!!1
Will pay what I must!!!1

Comrad Viktor
I like the image called "are you blind too?" from LGF and I want it on a shirt. Anybody here have the connection to make that happen?

Hooray for Poland and Elzbieta Radziszewska, komrades!
Let the toiling masses get used to it. When we come to power, there will be no list of prohibited images, there will be a list of permitted ones.

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Everything is prohibited, except that which is specifically allowed. I like it Comrade Polkovnik. Very advanced socialist thinking. Are you writing speeches for his O'liness yet?

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Tom Jones wrote:Must have a Che-Dolf T-shirt!!!1
Will pay what I must!!!1

I resisted long enough, but how can I argue with Tom Jones and his weaponized cucumber? I set up the shirt design this morning. You are allowed to change shirt styles and colors.

- https://www.zazzle.com/che_dolf_tshirt- ... 7842422672

He's Fascist and Communist, the patron saint of the oxymoron....Beautiful Comrade! I love it!


 
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