Why Is Communism Cool?

So, my dear friends, here’s what my dad says about Communism: “They are savage Godless people!! I saw it with my own eyes. They dug a pit and put a piece of a railway track on top of it. Do you know what they were going to do with it? They were going to use it to decapitate the Muslims!” And as if that story isn’t horrifying enough, my mom never forgets to add: “Your grandpa was among the people they, the PKI, planned to kill. I remember when I was a child the PKI people were spreading rumors about [ghosts or vampires, I forgot], telling people to hang onion and chili in their houses to ward them off. We never knew then that the onion and chili were actually the hammer and sickle for them!”

Cool!

I wish I could tell my parent that Communism is cool. Not that I believe they were telling lies to me. They were just telling me what they believed they saw; a reality constructed by the propaganda of their parents – which they passed on to me. Well,  they did their job well. I did fear communism as I feared kolong wewe, the female spirit who likes to kidnap children and keep them behind her breasts (which are very huge, btw). But that’s it. As soon as I began to question whether kolong wewe is really busty exists, I ceased to believe that anything to do with communism is wrong and demonic. After all, there’s no way I could verify if the PKI were really planning a massacre and sadly turned out to be the ones being massacred. It doesn’t matter lah. I have studied history long enough to know the truth that the past is like a blank paper on which you can write anything you want if you have the sword to tell the losers to shut the fuck up.

Shut the fuck up!!

One thing for sure, communist art is really cool. That Russian chicks are infinitely cute and its literary icons are just damn geniuses is not the only reason why I believe Russia is way cooler than the US, whose women and writers are just so lame. Look at that woman on that poster: there is  something in her that you won’t find in Marilyn Monroe or any other “it” girls. She’s a mother and her son was on the battlefield. I got that picture from here. And the blog owner is kind enough to give us the translation of the poster’s writings. It says: Keep your eyes open./These days/Even the walls have ears./Chatter and gossip/Go hand in hand with/Treason. Of course you don’t have to approve what it says. But you just can’t deny the fact that the verse fits the picture so perfectly and that the whole art piece is just damn cool. I can’t explain what cool is: go ask Wikipedia.

Cute. But less cool.

I don’t think the picture above is cool. But the red and yellow do make her look cuter a little bit. Her face is just too innocent. I think what makes Russian chicks are cool is the impression that they are submissive without having to look submissive. I maybe deceived by  James Bond and dozens of cheesy Hollywood flicks, but don’t you agree with me? Ever seen Ukraine prime minister? Ah, damn, I gotta go. I’ll continue later if I still have the mood to write this. Btw, can anybody tell me why communism is, at least visually, cool? And is there any way I could see the works of the PKI artists?