Posted on 09/09/2018 8:12:37 AM PDT by CondoleezzaProtege
Lithuania on Friday urged American retail giant Walmart to stop selling T-shirts and hoodies with Soviet hammer and sickle symbols, insisting the image insults victims of often deadly Soviet-era persecution.
“We sent a letter to Walmart requesting the withdrawal of products with Soviet symbols and we are still waiting for a reaction,” Lithuanian ambassador to the US Rolandas Krisciunas said.
The hammer and sickle symbol is banned in Lithuania...
The Baltic state’s foreign minister Linas Linkevicius tweeted: “You wouldn’t buy Nazi-themed clothing, would you?
“We trust @Walmart’s moral stance & call to withdraw products with the symbols of mass murders.”
Walmart is selling red-hooded sweatshirts and T-shirts emblazoned with the yellow hammer and sickle symbol over the caption CCCP, which means USSR in the Cyrillic alphabet.
Hoodies described as “cool” on Walmart’s website cost $29.95 while the T-shirts go for $18.
The Soviet-inspired style has become trendy in recent years as Russian designers make their mark.
Walmart did not immediately respond when contacted, but guidelines posted on its website prohibit the sale of products related to “any historical or news event” that could be considered “offensive”.
Politicians in neighbouring Baltic states Estonia and Latvia, where people also suffered decades of Soviet occupation, joined the call for the world’s biggest retailer to pull the Soviet-themed merchandise from its shelves.
Walmart is present in 28 countries, but not in the Baltic states or other eastern European countries dominated by the former Soviet Union.
Lithuania, which joined both the EU and NATO in 2004, was a battleground between Nazi and Soviet troops during the second world war.
It was seized by Moscow in 1940 under a secret pact with Adolf Hitler, and within a decade, 300,000 Lithuanians had been deported, mostly to Siberia, or killed in insurgent fighting.
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Sick !
Good for Lithuania.
I have Lithuanian immigrant neighbors.
They know what communism looks like in person.
I wonder if they also have Che shirts!
Problem is, Walmart did remove Confederate flag stuff back in 2015 in their rush to pander post-Charleston, so I don't see how they can do that but leave this communist crap up.
Perhaps look at the use of these symbols as spoils of war?
The detail on that bottom one is interesting. It even has Stalin. I looked for some Nazi shirts but they don’t have them. Why not? It’s the same damned thing.
The swastika was popular in a lot of cultures from India to Peru. I remember seeing an Indian fellow in Singapore walking about sporting a large swastika on his tee shirt.
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Personally, I thought the Tijuana shirt was hilarious, but they have one with just the girl and donkey winking... LOL
I think that’s classic example of cultural appropriation.
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:)
Stalin started WWII with Hitler and killed more people.
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