RIP Kim Jong Il
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- raf0
Let grandpa raf tell you another boring "behind the Iron Curtain veteran" story.
When I was a kid in school they'd randomly pick a few classes of kids or whole schools, dress them up, hand them commie party-supporting banners, and send them to enthusiastically greet foreign politicians at airports.
For May 1st parades they'd take both schools and state companies (all businesses were the state's). Not coming to the parade was, so to speak, politically incorrect. This could easily fuck up your career and it surely was noted in your file.
When visiting Cuba a few years ago, it felt like coming back home. All billboards were propaganda—and there was plenty of that shit. There were pro-Fidel graffiti on building walls everywhere. Of all people I spoke with there was one old woman who babbled about how the revolution was good for them (then she offered me to buy illegal, counterfeit cigars so she could make ends meet). Her windows had no glass (actually, no windows, just holes in walls) and her neighbours could hear every word.
When I spoke to someone who knew nobody else could hear us, they'd tell how shit it really was.
The last one was actually quite funny, right in front of United States Interest Section in Havana.Those Koreans are, above all, scared for their lives. A change in power like this means a war on top. The people fighting for power are afraid even more and they are likely to do something terrible to the nation to avoid/prevent a mutiny—they could easily start a war either with a foreign country or their own people and there's no telling really what happens next.