Stalin Still Rules
Re the ongoing North Korea fetish.
'NK -the most bizarre country in the world' by Sue Lloyd Roberts.
I showed the correspondent's mini documentary last week to a World Issues class.
This scene, included in the report and republished in the above link, floored me (I'll link to the doc if I can find it again) :
"I visited model farms, model villages, model factories and model schools, though, at the school, even my government minders looked faintly embarrassed when I asked a model pupil in an English language class who he admired most among modern world leaders and he answered: "Joseph Stalin and Mao Zedong."
Reportedly rounding out his top five were Ho Chi Minh, Nicolae Ceausescu and Enver Hoxha.
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Modern = 1950's. Well, I guess they cannot explain to the kids about Yeltsin.
Castro though sort of still works - still alive and still communist, though not in charge.
and why not Chavez? Maybe he's too capitalist and open-minded for the NoKos.
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