Dienstag, 5. Juli 2005
Gulag unserer Zeit
From the first light of morning, soldiers squat in the fields, many of them stripped down to their T-shirts. They are joined by women with babies strapped to their backs, children who look like they ought to be in school and senior citizens with white kerchiefs wrapped around their heads to protect them from the sun.
It is the height of the planting season in North Korea and the regime has mobilized millions of people to make the most of the moment. Even office workers from the city are spending their weekends in the countryside planting rice and other crops.
The mass mobilization has been the custom every year in North Korea for decades — it is usually as much a way of inculcating collectivist values as getting out the crops.
Und dennoch werden wohl viele wieder verhungern. Es lebe der Sozialismus!
Dienstag, 5. Juli 2005, 12:17
Jetzt frage ich mich bloß was das ganze mit “afghanistan” zu tun hat ;)
Dienstag, 5. Juli 2005, 12:18
Ehm, argh, danke :)
Sonntag, 24. Juli 2005, 23:44
aber lassen wir den Sozialismus! Freuen wir uns doch lieber auf die verheißungsvolle Zukunft des Kapitalismus!