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Czarjorge
Joined: 01 May 2007
Location: I now have the same moustache, and it is glorious.
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 Posted: Fri Apr 25, 2008 11:31 am Post subject: Adolf Action Figure |
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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=561519&in_page_id=1770
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An action-man style doll of Nazi leader Adolf Hitler has gone on sale in the Ukraine, with saleswomen comparing the doll to Barbie.
Supermarkets in the capital Kiev are stocking the 40 centimetre high figure of the fuhrer, complete with jackboots, leather trench-coat and swastika armband.
The �100 figure has a spare head "with a kind expression on it," glasses and several changes of clothes.
It comes in a presentation box with the dates of Hitler's birth and death on it.
The decision to market the figure comes at a time of growing extreme right political sentiment in Ukraine.
There are also reports of increasing xenophobia and racism, and of some extremists supporting racism similar to that of Nazi Germany under Hitler.
Critics believe a cult of Hitler could spring up among disaffected youths, too young to remember the ravages Nazism wreaked on the country.
Around three million people died as a result of the Nazi occupation of the Ukraine, including 1.5 million Jews.
Hitler wanted to turn the country into a buffer zone with Russia peopled by slave workers working for the Third Reich.
Although Ukranian laws prohibit any form of fascism or propaganda, the dolls are already on sale and will be mass marketed this summer.
One saleswoman said: "It is like Barbie. Kids can undress fuhrer, pin on medals and there's a spare head in the kit to give him a kinder expression on his face.
"He has glasses that are round, in the manner of pacifist Jon Lennon".
The doll will also come with accessories like a miniature Blondi, Hitler's faithful Alsatian who died alongside the Nazi in his bunker in Berlin in 1945.
The doll is dressed in long light-brown cloak, military uniform and jackboots.
According to the saleswoman, should the demand be high, manufacturers will go further and launch a series of themed Third Reich toys, including interiors of Hitler's chancellery, toy concentration camps with barbed wire, barracks and operating models of gas chambers and crematoriums.
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I wonder if they'll do a Stalin too? Somehow I doubt it.
Ukraine might actually be worse than Russia after all. |
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tfunk
Joined: 12 Aug 2006
Location: Dublin, Ireland
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| Posted: Fri Apr 25, 2008 1:38 pm Post subject: |
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What's wrong with making a Hitler doll?
If you buy the doll are you funding the Nazis? If you're interested in World War 2 and you buy a history book about the Nazis are you condoning/supporting their actions?
I'd buy that doll, only it's a man and not life size. |
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aarontendo
Joined: 08 Feb 2006
Location: Daegu-ish
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| Posted: Fri Apr 25, 2008 2:35 pm Post subject: |
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| I'd buy the hell outta that doll. Just for the hell of it. |
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ED209
Joined: 17 Oct 2006
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| Posted: Fri Apr 25, 2008 5:55 pm Post subject: |
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I think it goes a little far here "toy concentration camps with barbed wire,".
Still want one. |
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VanIslander
Joined: 18 Aug 2003
Location: Geoje, Hadong, Tongyeong,... now in a small coastal island town outside Gyeongsangnamdo!
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| Posted: Fri Apr 25, 2008 6:28 pm Post subject: |
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I got a dancing Saddam Hussein doll I picked up at a highway pit stop near Sacheon, Gyeongsangnamdo in March of 2003, as America was preparing to invade Iraq.
He used to sit on the fridge but since he's been disposed of in real life he's been relegated to standing guard next to the rum bottles on the top shelf of the cupboard.
It must be a collector's item now. 
(Yet I'd trade it for a few DVDs of copied films) |
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Czarjorge
Joined: 01 May 2007
Location: I now have the same moustache, and it is glorious.
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| Posted: Fri Apr 25, 2008 6:57 pm Post subject: |
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| My brain must have shut down by the time I read the last paragraph as I completely missed the idea of the toy concentration camps. Are they going to make Jews and Gypsys to gas? Is there a kiddie version of Zyklon B? |
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MollyBloom
Joined: 21 Jul 2006
Location: James Joyce's pants
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| Posted: Sun Apr 27, 2008 3:13 pm Post subject: |
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| Love the glasses. Very James Joyce. |
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Ya-ta Boy
Joined: 16 Jan 2003
Location: Established in 1994
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| Posted: Sun Apr 27, 2008 4:33 pm Post subject: |
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| What book is Marilyn reading? I can't make it out. |
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mateomiguel
Joined: 16 May 2005
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| toy concentration camps and gas chambers? Is this some sort of April Fool's joke? |
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DrunkenMaster
Joined: 04 Feb 2008
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| Posted: Sun Apr 27, 2008 6:30 pm Post subject: |
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| What book is Marilyn reading? I can't make it out. |
It's Ulysses, and there's no way in hell she made it past the first paragraph, let alone to the last page. |
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nobbyken
Joined: 07 Jun 2006
Location: Yongin ^^
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| Posted: Sun Apr 27, 2008 9:15 pm Post subject: |
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Stick one on the bonnet of your car as you tour through Europe.
He got to France the last time pretty easily! |
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JustJohn
Joined: 18 Oct 2007
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| Posted: Sun Apr 27, 2008 10:24 pm Post subject: |
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| Ya-ta Boy wrote: |
| What book is Marilyn reading? I can't make it out. |
How to pick up teenage boys at the playground |
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MollyBloom
Joined: 21 Jul 2006
Location: James Joyce's pants
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| Posted: Mon Apr 28, 2008 12:05 am Post subject: |
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| DrunkenMaster wrote: |
| Ya-ta Boy wrote: |
| What book is Marilyn reading? I can't make it out. |
It's Ulysses, and there's no way in hell she made it past the first paragraph, let alone to the last page. |
Yeah, it's funny because she's opened up near the very end, which makes her either on the Ithaca or Penelope chapter! NO way she could even fathom the Ithaca chapter, although she might appreciate the schema of the catechism because I think she went to Catholic school or something like that...if she caught on...  |
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