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| | Czechs really hate this U.S. import / The big, fat, ugly, red guy unwelcome as new tradition |
 | | President Antonin Zapotecky, in his 1952 Christmas radio address for kids, went so far as to say Jezisek symbolized the poverty capitalists wanted workers to live in because the Son of God was born in a barn. |
 | | "Grandfather Frost doesn't walk around naked in rugged clothes, he is dressed nicely, wears a fur cap and fur coat," he told the country's youth. |
 | | So perhaps it is understandable that even those whose job it is to promote commercialism, copywriters, want their moneymaking symbols to be homegrown. |
| www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2006/12/17/INGT8MV4SS1.DTL (1308 words) |
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