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[–] PugJesus@lemmy.world 45 points 5 hours ago (9 children)

Being comrades with someone with a Soviet ushanka sounds like a great way to have workers' protests violently suppressed.

[–] Aatube@kbin.melroy.org 7 points 4 hours ago (5 children)
[–] latenightnoir@lemmy.world 3 points 4 hours ago (2 children)

Hey, nobody says ushankas should carry the sins of humans! We can reclaim ushankas as a symbol of empathy and... uuh... general goodness, I guess!

[–] Aatube@kbin.melroy.org 4 points 2 hours ago

interestingly, china propagandized this peacetime soldier who died in an accident, lei fang, into this model citizen of kindness and selflessness, and thus the chinese call the hat the β€œlei feng hat” after propaganda depictions. whether that (and the fact that northeasterners usually wear the hat regardless of politics to combat cold) means it has shed communist symbolism is up to you

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