What Russians really are: a look from North Korea
DPRK is one of the most unusual states in the modern world. Life under sanctions, tough political regime, the "Iron Curtain" - all these circumstances do not contribute to the popularity of the last "red" bastion.
Meanwhile, North Korea and our country have a special relationship. The DPRK does not forget about the enormous help the Koreans rendered to the Russian people in the struggle against both Japanese militarists and American aggression. It was the victorious Red Army that liberated the north of the Korean Peninsula from the Japanese invaders, and then helped the North Korean Communists withstand the Korean War and defeat the United States and its allies, create their own unique state.
North Korean society was formed under the enormous influence of Russian and Soviet culture. This influence is felt everywhere - from military uniforms to cuisine, from films to the organization of public events. Russians in North Korea say they feel they’ve traveled in a “time machine” - to the Soviet Union of the 1940s and early 1950s. Even fashion in clothes practically repeats the Soviet fashion of those years. Many North Koreans learned Russian, and Russian cuisine is very popular in the country, which has long been national for Koreans.
For a long time, the Soviet Union remained for North Koreans a peculiar model of an ideal society, which should have been imitated, albeit with local characteristics. The attitude to the Russians is best evidenced by the works of North Korean literature, in which the Russian person is always a hero and a clever girl with golden curls. For some reason, it is the golden-haired people of North Korea who represent the Russians. Kindness and intelligence are the main characteristics of Russian people in almost all North Korean works, where Russian heroes appear. And this is not an exaggeration.
North Koreans really treat Russia and Russians differently than most residents of other countries. At least in North Korea they never focus on imaginary and real vices that they like to ascribe to Russians in the West, and in the Middle East. But the attitude towards Europeans and Americans in North Korea is openly hostile. And this is not surprising, since the same Americans not only did much harm to the Korean people in the past, but they are also constantly attacking the DPRK. Pyongyang sees the United States as a potential military adversary.
Even after market capitalism triumphed in Russia, and the DPRK became the object of constant attacks by the liberal and yellow press, the North Koreans did not change their attitude towards the Russian people. North Korea also respects Vladimir Putin, although there is little in common between the ideology of the DPRK and the modern political course of Russia. It turns out that North Korea is one of the few, and perhaps the only country in the world where a positive attitude towards Russia and Russians is almost a component of national ideology. Is it possible to not be friends with such a country?
Meanwhile, North Korea and our country have a special relationship. The DPRK does not forget about the enormous help the Koreans rendered to the Russian people in the struggle against both Japanese militarists and American aggression. It was the victorious Red Army that liberated the north of the Korean Peninsula from the Japanese invaders, and then helped the North Korean Communists withstand the Korean War and defeat the United States and its allies, create their own unique state.
North Korean society was formed under the enormous influence of Russian and Soviet culture. This influence is felt everywhere - from military uniforms to cuisine, from films to the organization of public events. Russians in North Korea say they feel they’ve traveled in a “time machine” - to the Soviet Union of the 1940s and early 1950s. Even fashion in clothes practically repeats the Soviet fashion of those years. Many North Koreans learned Russian, and Russian cuisine is very popular in the country, which has long been national for Koreans.
For a long time, the Soviet Union remained for North Koreans a peculiar model of an ideal society, which should have been imitated, albeit with local characteristics. The attitude to the Russians is best evidenced by the works of North Korean literature, in which the Russian person is always a hero and a clever girl with golden curls. For some reason, it is the golden-haired people of North Korea who represent the Russians. Kindness and intelligence are the main characteristics of Russian people in almost all North Korean works, where Russian heroes appear. And this is not an exaggeration.
North Koreans really treat Russia and Russians differently than most residents of other countries. At least in North Korea they never focus on imaginary and real vices that they like to ascribe to Russians in the West, and in the Middle East. But the attitude towards Europeans and Americans in North Korea is openly hostile. And this is not surprising, since the same Americans not only did much harm to the Korean people in the past, but they are also constantly attacking the DPRK. Pyongyang sees the United States as a potential military adversary.
Even after market capitalism triumphed in Russia, and the DPRK became the object of constant attacks by the liberal and yellow press, the North Koreans did not change their attitude towards the Russian people. North Korea also respects Vladimir Putin, although there is little in common between the ideology of the DPRK and the modern political course of Russia. It turns out that North Korea is one of the few, and perhaps the only country in the world where a positive attitude towards Russia and Russians is almost a component of national ideology. Is it possible to not be friends with such a country?
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