The Fredösphere

Read to the end of Jonah Goldberg's linkfest and you'll find this intriguing offer:  send the guys at maopost.com a photo of your face, and they'll photoshop you into your very own Chicom propaganda poster.

You really ought to check out the posters.  (And the captions.)  Look at the smiling faces.  Gosh, but communism makes people happy!  The kitsch is in such pure form, it cries out for this kind of ironic treatment -- and yet, one feels the pang of conscience.  I have opined on this precise subject before, but to summarize:  Mao's revolutions killed people.  Lots and lots and lots of people.  Has enough time passed that we can start having fun?  One can't help making the Hitler analogy:  would similar fun be possible if it were the Nazis instead of the communists?  If we're talking pure farce, the answer is apparently yes.  If it is light-hearted nostalgia, I suspect the answer is no.