Red Face

I see via columnist and blogger Michelle Malkin that North Face has decided to sell "vintage" jackets celebrating the memory of the Союз Советских Социалистических Республик (CCCP), or at the rest of us like to call it, the USSR.

Quite a country, the USSR.

It started via a revolution in 1917 where Czar Nicolas and his family were murdered by thugs loyal to Lenin. Stalin came to power after Lenin's death, and in 1939, signed a non-aggression pact with the Nazis. It didn't last long, however, and in 1941 they were in a war that saw tens of millions of Soviet boys and girls forced into combat, sometimes unarmed, often with an officer's pistol aimed at the back of their heads. Millions of them were cut down by either German machine guns or their own officers.

Before, During, and after the Second World War, the CCCP killed tens of millions in Joseph Stalin's gulags, and when Nikita Kruschev ran the country, he spoke to each and every American, "we will bury you."

How lovely a sentiment to promote to America's youth.

Tens of millions of more people in eastern European countries were crushed under the weight of the Iron Curtain, their human rights stripped away as mass graves filled in periodic purges. Unknown thousands died over the decades trying to flee this tyranny, gunned down by their own soldiers for trying to escape to the west and freedom. You celebrate it with a "trendy" jacket.

The jackets features "comfortable, easy-care fabric." I bet it would have been welcomed in the frozen forced labor concentration camps known as gulags, where those who desired the freedom to shop at western department stores were worked to death alongside criminals.

North Face—or perhaps we should call it "Red Face" for the embarrassing pimping of totalitarian regimes as fashion chic—is one of many brands of VF Corporation, the same publicly held capitalist corporation that owns the brands Wrangler, Lee, Vanity Fair, JanSport, Eastpak, Vans, and Nautica, just to name a few.

I wonder, does VF Investor Relations know that their subsidiaries are promoting a communist regime that killed millions of people, including hundreds of Americans in gulags?

This same regime that VF corporation seeks to market and capitalize on, developed and supplied weaponry that killed more than 33,000 American servicemen in the Korean war, and took another 58,191 American lives in Vietnam.

This the legacy of mass murder, political oppression and war with America can be yours for just $78 American, courtesy of North Face and VF Corporation.

Do let them know what you think:

VF Corporation

VF Corporation
105 Corporate Center Blvd.
Greensboro, NC 27420-1488
Phone: 336.424.6000
Fax: 336.424.7668

Investor Relations
Cindy Knoebel
VP, Financial and Corporate Communications
VF Services
P: 336.424.6189
F: 336.424.7668

Media Inquiries
Paul Mason
P: 336.424.6192
F: 336.424.7668

North Face
Phone:(866) 715-3223, prompt 7.
Monday-Friday, 8:00am-4:00pm
Pacific time

Address:
The North Face, Inc.
Customer Service
2013 Farallon Dr.
San Leandro, CA 94577
USA

Like the fallen totalitarian regime they seek to profit from promoting, I'm sure they would just kill to hear from you.