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Not to be confused with the graves of the mass millions who died in nations claiming to follow his principles.
The Gulag sucks 
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Easy there....in no way am I trying to ignore the atrocities commited under communism with my comment. And all you have to do is read some of the massive book The Gulag Archipelago to realize that "sucks" is far to nice a description of the horrific chain of prisons where Lenin and Stalin sent some of their best and brightest to be locked up, tortured, and/or killed.
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Christmas is fun, even if it is a corporate holiday.
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Sorry, but Christmas is fun DESPITE being a corporate holiday. Just get a job working for any type of retail business during the Christmas season in order to see what stress the pressure to give "things" to each other puts on people.
I've seen people literally fight over stupid little gifts that will ultimately be forgotten in a drawer not long after they're unwrapped. I've also seen people utterly devastated when they learn the thing they wanted is sold out.
You know there's alot of ways to "give" and they don't all involve things you buy at Macy's or anywhere else for that matter.
Giving a material gift is what the coporations focused in on in their ad campaigns because that type of giving is what makes them money. And they've made a ton.