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Coincidentally, I'm actually in Harare, Zimbabwe right now. I was told earlier that there would be parties all over the city. Some will be celebrating but many others will mourn his death.

Pretty surprising for me, a white westerner to hear that people will be morning for the guy.

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I saw a documentary where doctors snuck cameras into NK. The doctors were doing free cateract surgery for people, and it was really prevalent because of how malnourished they were. The people getting surgery kept praising Kim Jong Il for saving their eye sight, even though he was the reason they needed surgery in the first place.

> I saw a documentary where doctors snuck cameras into NK. The doctors were doing free cateract surgery for people, and it was really prevalent because of how malnourished they were. The people getting surgery kept praising Kim Jong Il for saving their eye sight, even though he was the reason they needed surgery in the first place.

They had to give praise. They were on camera

They didn't know they were, but I think soldiers were in the room, so similar idea.

Even the worst dictators have fans, or they get overthrown.

People mourned Stalin.

People still do. Arguably, more of them now than ever before. They call it "rehabilitation".

My great great grandmother was a staunch fascist (living in the US) and mourned Mussolini's death for a number of years, I'm told.

People don't understand why things are the way they are. Myself especially. It's a fundamental human bias to think otherwise.

Mugabe liberated his people, that counts for a lot even considering decades of dictatorship.

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