Comments on: Confessions of CCCP wearers

By: Michael Averko

Michael Averko — Tue, 03 Apr 2007 14:04:24 +0000

My favorite T shirt:

http://russianlegacy.com/catalog/product_info.php?cPath=32_46&products_id=554

By: martins medenis

martins medenis — Tue, 03 Apr 2007 13:08:11 +0000

i am an australian of latvian descent and i would hate to sound too anatagonistic but i HATE it when people walk around in hammer & sickle shirts. my whole family was blacklisted to go to the siberian gulag prisons (women & children included) just because some were educated and they owned land (which was against the soviets’ ideology of collectivisation). My great uncle was sent to siberia for 15 years or so of backbreaking labour because he was a poet and a voice for the latvian people (estimated 3.3 million ‘prisoners were sent to the camps). It’s lucky the german’s came (ironically) and the rest of my family was saved from this fate. But they were all split up and half of them were lucky enough to end up in canada, america and australia. the rest lived under culturally, physically and socially oppressive rule for more than fifty years and this only ended in 1991, and they didn’t leave our country in a very good state. the repercussions of those times are still seen today in latvia as it tries to fix its problems. The three Baltic countries of Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia lost approximately a third of their populations (deaths and emigrations) because of the Russians and Germans but mainly the Soviets. Now when i see a loser walking doen the street with a hammer and sickle on their chest i am surely reminded of all of these things and more. I understand that most people are simply ignorant of these things, but unless you have a real political opinion about why you are wearing it, please don’t. It is estimated that under Stalin’s regime 10 million people died (6 million from famine and 4 million from oppression), he died in 1953. My country and others were ruled up until the 1991. Hitler oppressing people for no more than 9 years but would you wear a swastika on your shit as you do a hammer and sickle? bit of a double-standard i have always thought!

By: Tim Newman

Tim Newman — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

An Aeroflot t-shirt? Yellow lettering? Soviet Airlines? Not this one, perchance?

By: Tim Newman

Tim Newman — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

An Aeroflot t-shirt? Soviet Airlines? Not this one, perchance?

By: Tim Newman

Tim Newman — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

An Aeroflot t-shirt? Soviet Airlines? Not this one, perchance?

By: Andy

Andy — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

Sadly not – and even sadder, I don’t think I have a scanned picture to show. Mine has no winged logo, just says ‘Aeroflot’ then, in smaller letters beneath ‘Russian International Airlines’. The cool thing about this t-shirt (or at least I think so), is that it’s written in Russian, cyrillic letters and all.

By: Tim Newman

Tim Newman — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

Sorry, I’m having trouble with Typepad comments today.

That sounds like a pretty cool t-shirt, instantly recognisable by Russians.

By: Nathan

Nathan — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

I have a very bizarre Mao shirt. It's got his face all huge and whatnot on it, but beneath it is something written in Chinese and then, in English, "I know communism doesn't work." You can see it here. It is so perplexing that I had to have it. I don't have any USSR clothing, but I am tempted to get some gold chains and one of these. I do, though, have flags of some of the Central Asian SSRs and the Armenian SSR (which was misrepresented as Kazakhstan, I think), a bust of Lenin, and some WWII posters. For what it's worth, I view them as Cold War trophies.

By: Nathan

Nathan — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

This is pretty hot.

By: Andy

Andy — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

For years, one of my friends’ biggest ambitions in life has been to own an original Lev Yashin jersey. Yashin was the USSR goalkeeper in the 1950s and 60s. He wore an all black strip, and is thought by many – including, of course, my aforementioned friend, to be the finest keeper in the history of the game (by ‘the game’ I am, of course, referring to football).

I haven’t seen him wearing one recently though, so I guess it’s still his biggest ambition.