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Questions: Are we looking for conspiracies where none exist? IF this were true, why would it be limited to a single incident in Chinese history? IF this notion were true, why are model companies producing German & Russian afvs in mass quantities, since both countries have questionable episodes related to human rights in their past? IF this were true, many 1/35 kits of rail cars of WWII vintage would also disappear, so no one might be tempted to portray a Holocaust scene. The issue on swastikas is just that; the symbol has been outlawed, not the model that may have displayed that symbol. Come on, people!
sooo, I am just curious if there is a follow up to this thought process.
Note that there is very little portrayal of Imperial Japanese subjects.
Also, Paracel is not modelling anything ARVN. Presumably it is genuinely illegal for them to do that.
Another thing: The Swedish armed forces have been more or less ignored. There is the CV-90 and it's derivatives used by other countries but that is presumably only because these variants are used by some NATO countries. HobbyBoss issued the Strv 122 and Trumpeter have the Strv S but where are all the other vehicles? Plenty of softskins, quite a large variety of tanks from the early 1920'ies and onwards. Gun carriers and APC's built on obsolete tank chassis, the Bandkanon 1 (tracked cannon), a tracked SP howitzer which was quite innovative for its time. The Swedish Navy has been completely ignored. It's a little better with the airforce but there are LOTS of aircraft missing. How about that for a political correctness conspiracy? The same goes for Switzerland. "No! We can't make anything Swiss because that illojal country assists and supports tax evaders. We would never be able to sell those kits."
How about French stuff? It's only the last few years that anyone except Heller has been providing French tanks. There were lots of different types. Take that for a conspiracy.
Why would Paracel do ARVN? If they focus on the local market it could just be that they produce what they think will sell the most. It's a marketing thing. Why is their Modern Series almost only SAA/FSA? Why do they have Zombie figures? Has it got something to do with Vietnamese cooking? Fish sauce is useful but all the other stuff? Why don't they have any native americans or eskimoes? Why do they have a few US soldiers? Why are there almost no ice-cream vendors on the streets during the winter? A conspiracy by the anti-sugar lobby?
Why does my butt hurt if I sit too long on a pointy rock? A clever marketing ploy by the cushion producers lobby?
Why haven't Bronco removed the Type 63-2 from their online catalogue yet? Is it a conspiracy to try and fool us westerners into believing that the Chines Communist Party is not trying to erase the memory of Tiananmen massacre.
Have the Chinese authorities banned the word 'massacre' from the chinese internet access yet?
Why hasn't the rest of the world started adding a little snippet of text about the Tiananmen massacre into every web-page, tweet, FB-update, forum post et.c so that the Chinese people realise that there is something strange going on when all their internet queries return nothing?
Why is there so much lint in my navel?
Why are there so many people obsessed with political conspiracies? Should the native americans have built a wall along the coasts 500 years ago to keep out all the immigrants? Why am I writing this? Am I a conspiracy by the Chinese ruling class, created as a subversive means to undermine Your sanity? Who knows .... So many useless questions ...
/ Robin
