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My thoughts exactly Dundee, well said. I'll add that a relevant basis almost never includes pictures - instances of one event taken out of context. One statement in its relevant context is worth a thousand pictures. Yeah, there were some miserable (and pretty nice) places there, and nobody should have to live under the rule of one person, but the goons talking about 'wow, black/white difference between communism and capitalism' are missing quite a bit of historical, political, and socioeconomic context. Things happen for a multiplicity of reasons, and NK is hosed at the crossroads of several that make none of those pics surprising.
As for the hotel, if you make it to page 9 of that thread, someone says that the unfinished hotel was built to be the tallest building ever constructed, but someone beat em to it.
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