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U.S. toy shop sells Vladimir Lenin lollipops online

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Archie McPhee, a quirky toy shop that is a major tourist attraction in Seattle, has started selling lollipops representing the Bolshevik leader, Vladimir Lenin.
MOSCOW, July 3 (RIA Novosti) - Archie McPhee, a quirky toy shop that is a major tourist attraction in Seattle, has started selling lollipops representing the Bolshevik leader, Vladimir Lenin.

The pack of 24 individually wrapped candies with a slogan "I taste like cola!" has the price of $27.95 on the shop's website.

"Celebrate the fall of communism and show your support for obscure political irony by munching on these Vladimir Lenin Head Pops!" the company says.

The shop has a number of other weird goods with a communist theme. "Impress your comrades", the site proclaims, with the "distinctly communist" moustache and beard set of the architect of the 1917 Revolution.

Among other offers is a plastic frame with a red face, which could be transformed into a range of communist leaders - from Lenin to Fidel Castro - with the help of a magnetic wand and metal shavings.

Shoppers are also tempted by a round tin of mint candies sporting Lenin's portrait and the hammer-and-sickle emblem, and the sales pitch "revolutionize your breath just like Lenin and the Bolsheviks revolutionized Mother Russia!"

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