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Yes, in the height of terror - that is what communists would do. Having a wrong book would mark you as an enemy of state.
Or look, even Cambodia - even if how much they were communist first, or nationalist first is debatable - mere glasses would mark you for death.
Also lol for linking the BBC. To me it's like linking Radio Free Asia or the New York Times and pretend those are freedom fighters.
It's not really when the reporting is reporting what was done. But here's some more articles saying the same thing ?
> Most of what you assume to know about Koreans and likely Chinese or Vietnamese people is false.
You are assuming I am making assumptions. But I can see this discussion isn't going anywhere fast.
https://www.reuters.com/article/world/asia-pacific/north-kor...
https://abcnews.go.com/International/north-korea-issues-rare...
https://www.koreatimes.co.kr/foreignaffairs/northkorea/20200...
https://www.npr.org/2020/09/25/916807251/kim-jong-un-apologi...
Oh, sure, they're not directly state-owned news (except NPR and the BBC etc. etc.).
They're just owned by the owners of the state.
Sometimes that bites us in the ass real bad, sometimes it's less severe, but humans aren't defined as being perfect. Believing being human makes you immune to the same kinds of belief problems as other humans have gotten themselves into results in bite-you-in-the-ass results more often, among other problems.
And to have the balls to claim you can't trust people that lived in NK and escaped and you should better trust who? those NK propaganda images the soviets are spreading around ?
I call soviets the home sovieticus, the imperialists bastards that excuse that criminal regime and want it back, like the Zeds and their friends.
Now do the same for the country you are very fond of. It wouldn't be so hard, right?
Super easy, I can exit Romania to EU just with my identity card, I can go to Moldova just as easy , for other countries depends on their rules like I might need to have family there if I am visiting them or to have paid for hotels and have some money to prove I am a tourist. So I can exit Romania unless I am under some investigation by the police and a judge asked me not to run away.
this was not true during communist times, the communist had walls and they killed people attempting to leave the paradise, even if you had a passport because you were some important person your passport was kept by the police not by you.
Hard question for you now, If NK won't let the population go and visit some evil, corrupt, dangerous country why are teh citizens also blocked to freely travel to China or RuZZia ? Also why is that country starving when they are neighboring those big countries that soviets claim they are very kind.
Okay, now do the same for the Ukraine.
But you can't, because if you use your own words: "this regimes have walls and kill the people that try to escape the paradise" on the Ukraine you would BSOD.
and I never said anything about Ukraine, comrade "What About" , Ukrainians are little soviets , not giant soviets like the Moscowites so I will not see me praise them, I just do not want mr Putin make the USSR great again and bring back the genocides.
So , since I did not claim Ukraine is a paradise not show me why the USSR and NK paradises do not let people out, not let people communicate with their relatives outside and tell them how perfect, nice or good enough the paradise is.
I bet you will respond with "What About" or some other pre-written text from your soviet book or propaganda.