One good advantage of previous communism system in my country was that there was no Valentine's day, so there were no problems like that.
However we have implemented (with help of these chocolate and gift selling global companies) Valentine's very quickly, but I always thought this day was especially dedicated to those shy pimled teenagers unable to reveal their deepest feelings to their classmates on another occassion - But my girlfriend expects some gift too
I love her very much, but WTF should those days be organized internationally?
XM