The Devil in the White City (Kozik Stalin) by agitprop on 2007-12-30 15:52:33
One can often hear North Korea being described as a “Stalinist state.” Although the DPRK of the present day is quite different from the USSR of Joseph Stalin, this definition is still mostly accurate.
Many of these who see such a description might assume that the DPRK still has some cult of Stalin with him being portrayed as a great predecessor of Kims – much as Stalin himself created a cult of Marx, Engels and Lenin. However, this is not so.
One can often hear North Korea being described as a “Stalinist state.” Although the DPRK of the present day is quite different from the USSR of Joseph Stalin, this definition is still mostly accurate.
Many of these who see such a description might assume that the DPRK still has some cult of Stalin with him being portrayed as a great predecessor of Kims – much as Stalin himself created a cult of Marx, Engels and Lenin. However, this is not so.
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Fyodor Tertitskiy is a leading researcher at Seoul’s Kookmin University. He holds a Ph.D. in Sociology from Seoul National University and is the author of several books on North Korean history and military in English and Korean.