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I have no idea if https://dprktoday.com truly is[1] DPRK or someone else's black propaganda (nor do I read korean) but the pictures on it are congruent with those from former communist countries.

New factory, with athletic courts (and maybe a stage/multipurpose hall?) for the workers: https://dprktoday.com/content/great/4/sajin/image/2020-05-02...

Kids wearing red kerchiefs in botanic: https://dprktoday.com/photos/18301

Inspecting big industrial things: https://dprktoday.com/photos/18390

Party meetings (other pics show voting by holding up cards, but the colours don't seem very distinct to me): https://dprktoday.com/photos/15113

Ski resorts: https://dprktoday.com/news/43327

Doctor's outfit, multi-ethnic star: https://dprktoday.com/photos/18257

Rods instead of chains on swing sets: https://dprktoday.com/content//photo/2020/20200527-03-1.jpg

Makeup only in demure colours: https://dprktoday.com/content//photo/2020/20200527-01-2.jpg

Apartment blocks: https://dprktoday.com/content//photo/2020/20200318-01-1.jpg

Karaoke (was this actually soviet, or only post-soviet?): https://dprktoday.com/content//photo/2020/20200418-01-2.jpg

Comrades painting: https://dprktoday.com/content//photo/2020/20200502-02-2.jpg

Gender-balanced propaganda statues: https://dprktoday.com/content//photo/2020/20200421-pt18041-1...

"75 years victory"?: https://dprktoday.com/content//photo/2020/20200318-pt17942-3...

[1] traceroute is useless these days, and its whois registrar appears to be chinese.

Bonus /r/fullcommunism: "let's study" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ukBcC-sK3wQ Unless they're trolling hard with the english subs, the chorus is about studying for a better future. I know grades were important for early selection in the Young Pioneers, but can't immediately think of such a swotty song in the soviet catalogue (choreography and backing band, however, is spot on). Closest I manage at the moment is the educational background of the main characters in the movie "Three Plus Two."



I'm not sure what point you're trying to make. If it's "DPRK is communist", you're not really doing that because nothing you mentioned has anything to do with communism.


I'm not trying to say "DPRK is communist", especially because I believe the Warsaw Pact countries considered themselves to be socialist, on the way to communism. What I am trying to say is that, of things that strike me as having been different between western and eastern europe in photographed culture, today's DPRK shows the same differences. So I'd consider it firmly in the "second world", insofar as that old cold war trichotomy makes any sense in the twenty-first century.

For instance, I consider "Девушки фабричные" to have been a soviet trope (an image search reveals factory girls existed in the west as well, but don't seem to have been so frequently propagandised) and sure enough, here they are in the DPRK, even clasically at textile machines:

https://dprktoday.com/content//photo/2020/20200309-pt17906-1...

https://dprktoday.com/content//photo/2020/20200112-pt17518-2...

(among the machines I spotted on the site is a mask-making machine. Covid is a common denominator this year.)




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