The Romanian people are thankfully free of this tyrannical system. I hope and pray one day I can say the same for people unfortunate enough to be born and living in North Korea
Ceausescus`s problem was the same like Tito`s one: both were sitting on two chairs, didn`t trust the Soviet union and were making deals with Angloamericans. At the end Angloamericans destroyed Yugoslavia after Tito`s death and killed Ceausescu like a dog by hands of his own armed forces.
Regardless of what you think about Communists, you have to admit that North Korea knows how to put on a show! No other country could have pulled this off! I am completely amazed every time I watch this video.
Well... What I read: Czech Sokol sports/nationalist movement started to organize these mass games in 19th century as 'new and trendy thing'. Then in 1918/1919 Czech Legions in Vladivostok (A volunteer army that got stuck in a Russian civil war,many of them were members of the Sokol movement.... too complicated story to explain here) got into amicable contact wit anti-japanese Korean fighters. Then Korean freedom fighters started to do this on a small scale ...then Kim Ir sen many, many years later started to actively promote this and make 'mass games' bigger and bigger and gave them political communist twist. Then Ceaucesku dis see this on his trip to North Korea.... and brought it back to Europe. BUT IN THE MEANTIME....in the bithplace of Sokol 'mass games: Czechia/Czechoslovakia, the commies also adopted the Sokol 'mass games' (while banning Sokol organisation itself, of course:):), and made it bigger ..... ..... but they never made them into political theathre like in NK or Romania... that would be too much given the Sokol tradition in the country- so they never forced communist symbols or overt propaganda as part of the 'mass games' - BTW, Sokol movement does the 'mass games' in Czechia till this day:):) See Czechoslovak version during the communist era(1985) -basically the same, but so different:):): ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-dgu9cvChOlY.html
When Ceausescu was forced to flee Bucharest, his plan was to get to North Korea. Had he succeeded, he would have been a broken man by the time he got to the Hermit Kingdom . Ceausescu's reception might have consisted of a single limo taking him to a hotel without power/water in an industrial part of Pyongyang followed by dinner of a plate of cold kimchi with his North Korean minders.
Como espectáculo en si, es una maravilla. Sin ordenadores ni autotune ni efectos especiales. Pero menudo nivel pusieron, como para superarlo en la siguiente visita 😂
