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Post #315543

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C3PX
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China
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Date created
9-Apr-2008, 6:31 PM
lordjedi said:

[What's blatant about it? It's a Chinese guy waving with the Chinese flag in the background. It's not like the guy is ordering the execution of a prisoner right there on the watch. In either case, if you don't know who the guy is or what he's done, you'd have no idea what you're wearing.


What is blantant about it??? That is not just some Chinese guy, that is Mao Tse-tung. That is about as blatant as wearing Joseph Stalin or Adolf Hitler on your wrist.

Che Guerra is not from Venezuela, he is from Agentina, but he is famous for his involvment in the Cuban Revolution. He was one of Fidel Castro's men, until the United States captured and executed him. He is a Cuban national hero and you will likely not only find depictions of him on clothes and watches in Cuba, but you will find many statues, momuments and memorials dedicated to him as well. He is a hero for what he stood for and loved for it by many though not all Cubans. Or at least they have to pretend they love him, certian governments are a bit quarky like that.

In my opinion, China and clothing stores who sell shirts with Guevara are doing the same thing, propaganda. Only the clothing stores do it for money, and the idiots who buy the stuff buy it because it is cool and either they are the hippie types who think they are real communisnts because communism is the way to go, or they simply just want to be cool and have no idea nor care who the hell the guy on their shirt is.