You know, this is the experience that drove Ceausescu off the deep end. He was a standard Eastern Bloc autocrat until this visit. . . then he decided he wanted what Kim had, and the rest is history. :-S
I was thinking along the same line as well. It is as if Ceausescu experienced a some form of epiphany once he found himself surrounded by North Korean welcoming committees and mass games. You can kind of tell his enthusiasm -- his eyes are brightened up! :D
Waterflux Also the visits to Mao Zedong must have done him no good. Plus, his wife was already hungry for that kind of power, so he only had bad influences. Still, what he did is totally despicable.
TheDutchOwner's Tech Channel - Part of TheDutchOwner's Technology Empire Yes, Comrade Mao, too! :D Too bad, Elena Ceausescu did not provide a moderating influence on Nicolae. At least both of them had the fortune to face execution together!
This was Ceausescu's second visit to North Korea I think. His first was in 1971 and that visit basicly started the cult of personality that revolved around him in Romania, since he was impressed with the way Kim Il-sung ran North Korea.
And guess who Kim Il-Sung learned it from: Joseph Stalin. Look up the INSANE 1950 Soviet propaganda film "The Fall of Berlin", it literally portrays Stalin as if he was a deity. It was considered so dangerous in terms of making a cult that even Khrushchev and Brezhnev both banned the film for decades IIRC.
Stop lying. for a Romanian that also grew up in the 80's i can say that yes we had lot's of choregraphy. But that isn't a problem? There is no problem to be patriotic. And yes we could play with the ball. Stop lying my friend.
@@cristianm7097 "Slaves" You want to say patriotic? And yes as always you guys never have arguments. The only argument people like you have is "Go to China" or "Go to North Korea".
+@John Brighton There is no freedom apart from Christ. He purchased humanity by His own blood, from slavery to the will of satan ('god of this world' and 'prince of the power of the air'). Yet one must believe in order to partake of the benefits. (John 10:10) 'The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy; I came that they may have life, and have it abundantly.' Clearly NO political or economic system, run by sinful men, can 'save' humanity. (Psalm 146:3) 'Do not trust in princes, in mortal man, in whom there is no salvation.' It is not news that the North Korean regime has committed appalling human-rights offenses against its own people. Aside from the political killings, the concentration camps, the forced labor, the neglect and abuse of the peasantry leading to chronic mass starvation--------------aside from all these things, one of the regime's greatest crimes has been its attempt to extirpate Christianity. Instead it has substituted an emperor-worship cult not so far removed from Japanese monarcho-fascism as many people would care to believe. Or it might bear comparison with ancient Egypt, with its rigidly stratified society. During the Japanese occupation, Protestant Christians led the moral crusade of resistance, because they served a greater King than the Japanese emperor-------------namely, Jesus Christ. And Pyongyang used to be known as a 'capital' of Asian Christianity. But the political reorganization of the peninsula owing to great-power interference (in which the Kims were Soviet stooges) changed that. Seoul took over that mantle after the conflict of 1950-53. However, churches in the South have been active in helping North Korean defectors in their social adjustment. In turn many defectors from the North have found Christ and are now serving Him. Unfortunately, capitalist/imperialist mainland China 'needs' North Korea as a satellite. For China's sake, it is not allowed to forge its own path. Therefore the faux-rouge and always amoral Chinese are deeply complicit in the suffering of the North Korean people. So is Donald Trump, who after an initial show of imprudent bellicosity became a pussycat in Kim Jong-un's lap----------in effect leading the West in 'sanitizing' Kim's dirty image.
@Xiangruo Dai Where? Look around some more, xenophobe. I'm a Christian, not an apologist for 'the West'. Jesus, the Son of God, became manifest as a Middle Eastern Jew. Christianity spread quickly in all directions (Africa, Asia, Europe) from its point of origin in Israel. Jesus said, 'salvation is from the Jews.' Apart from Jewish cultural penetration of the pagan West at that time, generating interest in the Word of God, Europe lay in darkness of night. And today, Europe has returned in large measure to paganism and secularism. It is in certain parts of the Third World that Christianity is advancing rapidly today. NO wonder, because Jesus came proclaiming good news for the poor. The ungodly world system of today, whether it is represented by the two great imperial powers, America and China, or by someone else, is dominated by pursuit of MONEY. Jesus said, you cannot serve both God and money.
It's eerie because this is so beautiful it made me tear up a bit, but this is the moment Ceausescu basically went insane. Really sad. What's sadder though is that, after this, Ceausescu decided to build a huge palace instead of making an Eiffel Tower that's 10x the size of the original. If you're gonna starve a whole nation, you might as well give the middle finger to France while you're doing it.
@@LordOfChaos.x yeah, an 800 calorie daily ‘scientific diet’. That’s all you need to live. Meantime, the high party members feasted. It sure is a good thing socialism overthrew the old order. Otherwise, there would be millions starving while the king lived in luxury, in a big palace.
believe it or not North Korea at that time was much better off than Romania. In fact it was richer than South Korea and China during the 70s. I think Romania was the one with food problems during Ceausescu's time haha
SK BiH not doubting what you say, but I'm wondering if you (or anyone else) can provide me with some good resources on the economy, politics and history of NK, that preferably goes more in depth than "muh ebil monargy digdador"? I'm trying to read up a bit on the individual socialist states from the 20th century.
Romanians started starving only after the 1980 because Ceausescu implemented food ratios , and he payed all of the debt the country had to the international bank , and then he was killed and we are back to where we started , in debt
The Rumanian plane was deemed to be too heavy to safely fly out of Pyongyang back to Bucharest. Ceaucescu told his translator, Sergiu Celac, to disembark and find his own way home. That was, needless to say a very difficult trip to make home without any credit or currency in his possession.
For 1 minute erase from your head the politics in this clip and look how it looks as artistic program , North Korea has done an amazing work in this clip
Not only in this clip. North Korean education makes it mandatory for all children to train gymnastics, learn to play at least one classical instrument, and read A LOT OF BOOKS. If you take away the political part of it all, that is how a country should raise their children.
Resolution MEH, it's pure kitsch! Sure, on one level it's impressive to see, absolutely, and it's cool how everyone gets their colored placard up at the right time, but as I said, KITSCH! NOT that I'm saying American (or even broader western) art is in some great shape at the moment. "Performance" art where the artist "dares" to be naked in public (I don't object to the nudity, just to the vacuousness), or "conceptual" art that simply seeks to offend some demographic are en vogue, and it's a crying shame. Cheers, at any rate!
***** ce minuni fac respectul imbinat cu frica, inspectore? si despre ce arta vorbim aici? si decapitarile facute de ISIL pot fi numite arta atunci, right?
Rann B Romania was already a dictatorship under craucescu and his predecessor (who was a true Stalinist), but this this trip inspired ceaucescu to transform Romania into a juche style, inward-looking, anti-internationalist state, like N. Korea, Albania, or China post-sino soviet split and pre-death of mao
@Gemcitykid Well, Romania can transition to a true democracy. It'll probably take a lot of hard work and time to do it, though, as well as learning from other functioning democracies how to make it work.
What are you talking about?? Do you have any idea how much Pyongyang has modernised? There are new cars. Those haircuts and clothes are so outdated they have never been seen since the 90s.
Indeed. The romanian's horror is exemplified by the "broken wrist/arm/finger" grip employed with the jerry lewis imitation Asian dolt. It reminds me of the same grip used by Larry David when he is coerced into a Christian Scientist prayer circle.
@@SilverPlaqueVII well that is pretty much false. Romania is a corrupt country, not a poor one. The country has plenty of natural gas/oil/good agriculture, and it is a beautiful country with a lot of wonderful forms of relief. And yeah, the NATO and EU have big strategic interests in terms of Romania, because of its location. That's why they chose to add it.
@@GabrielDima98 You can trade with a county just as easily outside an alliance. ‘Strategic interests’ have nothing to do with it. Romania chose to add itself, as it feared Russian aggression. Not just because Russia invaded Ukraine, either. Russia clipped off part of Rumania in the transnistria region, and there are Russian troops there right now, maintaining this nominally neutral state in Russias orbit. Russia is currently telling lies about ‘nato encirclement’. They brought it on themselves.
Clicking this I thought I know what I can expect, especially that I've read "our" Jaruzelski's memories about his own visit there... But this really blew my mind.
3:39 honestly that Securitate captain should just stand up, unholster his service pistol, and come back to rule Romania as though nothing ever happened
I just can't get over the fact that North Korean, well the North Korean Government dispises America so much... yet in this parade they driving Lincoln American-Made cars... Ha!
Jason Arkwright this is the seventies. DPRK policies at this time wasnt as american hating as it is now, since theyre still thinking abt their economy and the south. when the USSR collapsed they looked at the US for ... blame?
They could produce a great mass choreographed show, but had to rely on western countries for better consumer goods. The masses got the inferior goods produced in Soviet, Chinese and East Block countries while the leaders got the superior goods from the west. In the case of the Lincoln's, I am guessing that despite the tensions between America and North Korea, Kim just liked this car and had to have it, given that they were used 33 years later to carry his body in his funeral to me confirms this. Nixon gave Brezhnev a Lincoln a few years earlier, perhaps this influenced him. He could have more easily procured Soviet ZIL limos or even Mercedes Benz. It is rumored that he procured them illegally through a Ford dealer in Japan.
@@captainnovolin While it made strategic sense for the Soviets to duplicate a B-36, I seriously doubt that they would have duplicated a Lincoln Continental. The amount of effort required to copy a car that was easily bought on the American economy to produce a handful of limos would make no sense and be counter productive. Even if successful, all they would have accomplished is further projected the image that American design and technology was so superior that they chose to duplicate it rather than create their own. It looks like the cars were stripped of all their markings that identified them as Lincoln's. The cars were probably bought legitimately in other markets and then smuggled.
South Korea's GDP was also a mess during right-wing military rule. Then they turned around and boom, North's economy became too strained after the USSR collapsed.
Din veacuri a luptat această ţară Şi fiii ei de veacuri au visat Această minunată primăvară Pe care o trăim înflăcărat Noi împlinim tot ce-au visat străbunii Şi ducem mai departe visul lor Spre frumuseţea acestei ţări şi-a lumii Spre comunism, spre anii viitori Poporul, Ceauşescu, România! Partidul, Ceauşescu, România! Avem în fruntea noastră un fiu al ţării Cel mai iubit şi cel mai ascultat Ce-n lume pînă în depărtarea zării E preţuit de oameni şi stimat Aceste trei cuvinte minunate Cuvinte demne ca un tricolor Noi le purtăm în inimă săpate Spre comunism, spre anii viitori Poporul, Ceauşescu, România! Partidul, Ceauşescu, România!
Sa sugeti pula toti adeptii lui! Si toti cei care au trait dupa si au ajuns la putere! Ca din cauza lui si a urmasilor lui tara asta e inca bolnava, de mizeria pe care a intretinut o aceasta infectie numita PCR&Compania (mai nou PSD si altele, copiii lor)
Rocools,North Korea had food then because the USSR supplied it. The DPRK fell into starvation and deprivation when the USSR started cutting exports to North Korea in the late 80's
Apparently Kim Il Sung was physically sick with worry when Ceaucescu was executed, because he had to come to terms with the fact that the same thing could happen to him.
The difference between romanians a koreeans is that when romanians run out of food they murdered their dictator on Christmas day , koreeans when they ran out out food ,they switched to eat bark from the tree and grass and kept their dictator !!!
That is so true. So let me ask you then who is the better one here the one who killed due to hunger and starvation or the one who went to different paths to keep the cause of starvation alive?
@@anbban5499 In Romanian history anyone who was against the Romanian people and especialy if he was Romanian he had to die . We are different from any other nation and we always had are own laws " Lex Valachorum" ...so to respond to your question , yes it is way better . There is a red line in our culture and if someone cross it , there is only one penalty. The red line is : "cutitul la os " ...this means knive to the bone . Ceausescu literally went there and he cut and he cut untill the knive riched the bone . People fought back !!!
+loan pena Best not to speak too lightly of eating grass and drinking bark tea! You might come off as insensitive to the suffering of others. They didn't 'keep' their dictator; they were forced to keep him. Undoubtedly Romanian methods of terror and brainwashing were less efficient, and/or they suffered less from geographical, economic, and cultural isolation. Try looking at a map. People from different Eastern European countries could cross borders. I saw it when I was there, during the late 1970s. Ascribing such things to 'national differences' is pretty simple-minded. Human nature is consistent across the board. People don't enjoy being abused. At the same time, they can't help abusing one another, because they are sinners by nature. 'For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God' (Romans 3:23).
@@jesusislord4135 You are right in a way, however diets in the East of Asia are more shaped by feast or famine than the diets of modern Europe, even the poorer countries such as Romania. Who in modern Europe eats carnivorous animals such as cats or dogs through choice? Pickled cabbage may form the basis of both Korean kimchi and German sauerkraut- but the modern German diet is more like the American or English diets than ever before.
@ByronMH in that time(1978 the DPRK didn t have famine, they lived of the USSR..when USSR vanished in 1991, they started to go hungry, because they arent self-sufficient.
Ceausescu should never have set foot into China and North Korea. He learned bad things (i.e. cult of personality on steroids!) from over there. His eventual demise has finally begun ...... :D
I would say that the North had an early start compared to the South. The Kim Il Sung dictatorship quickly swept away any dissent and had the advantage of controlling the industrialized North from the start. By contrast, the South was plagued by political factionalism and lacked of industries. But once the Park Jung Hee regime took over the South, the South started to industrialize at a breakneck speed, but it was not until the '80s when everyone could feel the change in the South.
Waterflux wasn’t Park Chung he as big a self promoting despot as “Kim il sung” (he actually killed the real Kim il sung and stole his name. Not that park Chung he went that far lol) ?
Edited this: After seeing this clip and enjoying on how North Korea back then could really hold a big damn show/event or literally pulled up a big circus like this in the middle of Pyongyang just for a damn state visit, It's really amazing that North Koreans would sing almost every fucking song that you would like to play for them and they still got it almost as perfectly when it comes to the pronounciation (it's as point). No matter what even if they damn live under bad and old conditions being oppressed by that actual god awful Kim regime that doesn't even represent communism, they'll do it for you even if they are oppressed or no matter what damn thing you throw at them but you know what? Maybe any type of damn thing they would do (which kind of makes me remind myself that this sounds like some kind of slavery but-). Likewise on what I said, it reminds me of a quote somewhere that i forgot and now I'm gonna steal it. It's something as goes like this, "Even on the darkest times, we still try to put a smile on our faces" And lastly though, damn could they plan some event like this then back then huh. How hardcore Bye -Thomas
Pyongyang looks much more developed and modern in this video than it is currently. Hard to believe that this was North Korea a little less than 40 years ago considering all they've been through
Back in the 1970s, North Korea was more developed then the south. They had more infrastructure, and a better quality of life. Free apartments, free food, everything was free back then. Of course, the Soviets propped up the DPRK economy.
That's what tons of Soviet and Chinese aid will do. Once the USSR collapsed and South Korea became a stable democracy, bye bye North Korean "prosperity".
I love how people feel 'disgust' at those images, yet fail to produce the same emotions whilst beholding a papal procession, brought about by an institution with a far more licentious and expansive history. Remove the politics, and only artistic value remains.
Organized religious guilds like the Holy See virtually invented this type of mass-performance sycophancy, mastering its use over the centuries, and casting it upon the spellbound masses from continent to continent.
Ok, I'll take the time. It's like this: N Korea is a brutal dictatorship and if you can't perceive that the crowd is an orchestrated political performance, you are missing the point. Do you understand what "compulsory" means? To attend a papal procession, for some people, is a moving spiritual experience. It is an expression of belief in the power of Christ. Does Catholicism have a 2017 year history? Yes it does. You should study it instead of pretending that you "know" something. Good luck getting a clue.
John Cole >the crowd is an orchestrated political performance Damn didn't know that, I'd like to see the evidence you based this claim on. Any members of this particular crowd who spoke out about being coerced? Or ANY other crowd in the history of NK? >To attend a papal procession, for some people, is a moving spiritual experience. So were the crusades. >Does Catholicism have a 2017 year history? Yes it does. Indeed and it's one of building personal fortunes on the backs of poor people who toil in your service, while using religion as a tool to keep them stupid. It's also a history of rulers who could use catholicism as a legitimation for profit-making through war and alliances with the most reactionary elements of present-day Western governments. Follow your own advice and get a clue.
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.
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 😂
In the 70's north korea was the same as south korea, in an economical point of view: they had the same GDP. In 1978 (when Ceaucescu went in Pyongyang) the DPRK just began to lose its "economical power" which made everybody surprised (especially NATO). People trusted their country at this time, the trusted in the revolution and the power of the USSR. As communist militants (most of the opposants could go to the south during the Korean War and the retreat of the US Army because of China), they didn't believe in "Capitalist Propaganda", and that's why people here aren't actors.
I'm Romanian, born a little after the fall of communism. I have grown up with stories from that period from my parents. Seeing this gave me the worst chills I have ever had. I never lived through the insanity of communism, but my parents did.
But you must admit this is very artistic and appealing of any government with a heart warming effect. NOT SUPPORTING WHAT THE GOVERNMENTS DID JUST AN AMAZING SIGHT!
Free education, guaranteed employment and pension, subsidised housing and free sports training, sounds like your parents went through hell, i dont know how they coped
Apparently this is when Nicolae went off the rails. He was so impressed with north Korea that he undid all his reforms and tried to recreate NK in Romania.
@@hueyfreeman1983 starvation, energy rationing, no hot water, at the mercy of the secret police, no rights to speak of. I'm willing to bet you're a Starbucks Marxist, one of the idiots who complain about capitalism on your iPhone while sipping on your latte.
@@hueyfreeman1983 Famine, No Rights, Government taking everything, Personality Cult, No Contact with the outside world, this was communism in Romania. What you are saying is propaganda (the only ones that are somewhat true are the first ones, but they are nothing to the abuse Romanians suffered at the hands of the communists). If you want to know the truth, speak with people that lived under communist regimes and ask them how life was for them.
The spectacle shows Ceausescu that he was too “indulgent” at home and that he could make slaves of his people after the Korean model and could manipulate large masses of people to sing and dance for him like “a bear at the gate" Watch how the Korean president laughed and said rhetorically to Ceausescu: my slaves are doing a good job, aren't they? 🎉 This was CEAUSESCU downfall…
