Posted on 06/19/2006 4:50:11 PM PDT by dennisw
http://www.militaryphotos.net/forums/showthread.php?t=82755
http://www.militaryphotos.net/forums/showthread.php?t=82755&page=2
Lots of good photos. Check 'em out. 2 samples ---->>>
The particularity of the cities is the lack of cars. Everyone is walking, sometimes they take packed public transportatins made of tramways, trolleys and even 2 storie buses. The bicycles are rare and expensive.
The pedestrian zebra is original.
Maybe we can get the N. Koreans together w/ the Arabs. Commies love concrete and Arabs love to blow things up.
IIRC this hotel was abandoned because it was built without structural steel. Maybe someone can provide the full story on that.
I've seent that video probably 20 times.
The music and the message and imaging are so well coordinated.
Yeah. it could be. But even if without a nuclear accident, countries like NK will have few people going around... and why would NK's roam around their cities wasting their remaining strengths due to food shortage...
Seems like a Ritz cracker would suffice...
RIES, ALL RIES!
LOL! I took that same duty train in 1982 and then pcs'd there in 1987. Didn't see the guy and his mule-wife though ;)
Same cheerless buildings, same concrete fencing to block the view, same economic desolation the same look of desperation on the faces on the inhabitants.
Not to mention, East Berlin, and East Germany, was an ecological nightmare after 50 years of communism.
The minute we were allowed to travel to the East I left work and drove down to Potsdam to have a look around. Granted it was midnight ;) but it looked like a movie set that was created for the 1940s. That's where the weirdness comes in from looking at these places. Like a bad version of Pleasantville.
We used to go over for a daily visit in the winter time and come back to the West with black, tarlike boogers clogging our noses due to the type of coal they burned in the East. I couldn't even imagine living like that day in and day out.
There was a report about ten years ago that said that the Cuban diplomatic community in Pyongyang, along with other "progressive" missions, sent their kids to a camp somewhere outside Pyongyang. I just can't imagine what kind of "fun" those kids had at camp. "Okay, kids, now for lunch, we're going to have a toad roundup. What we don't eat for lunch, we'll have for dinner!"
Dude that video was awsome although they let the NK win.... But brings back alot of memories of my bboy days...OK My wanna be bboy days....
And no amount of reports, documents, photos, or defector's stories will change their mind. They also honestly believe the reports of 99% literacy, low infant mortality, high life expectancy etc. etc. Because we all know Castro and Kim Jong Il have no reason to lie.
Ok can someone photo shop looter dude in that first picture with a empty case of beer
Dam - that is good!!
I grew up in one (Bulgaria) and have visited a few others (USSR, Hungary, East Germany, Romania). While none was a paradise, Comrade Kim's creation is in a class of its own.
It is like a scene from "The Omega Man".
Dont' think that idea hasn't crossed the minds of both North Korea and at least- Iran.
Then throw Chavez into the mix and it's an ugly picture.
Arghhhhhhhhh !!!! My eyes ... my eyes ... wayyyyyyyy too much information on Ms. Halfbright .......
Once in West Berlin, I made a point of driving around the city, seeing as much as possible from the safe side of the barbed wire (this was pre-Wall). It was depressing. The rubble was untouched 15 years after the war. Damaged buildings had not been repaired. Everything was frozen in time, untouched, motionless. Everywhere you looked, the communist side was gray and lifeless, much like these photos of North Korea. West Berlin in those days was coming brightly to life, with a bustle of business and new construction. Stores and restaurants were thriving. Traffic was heavy. But it was unusual to see so much as a moving vehicle in the east zone.
Come to think of it, what did they have to pull plows with in East Germany but women? The war had devoured so many of the males and draft animals and the dead hand of communism could not replace them.
Now why did you have to do that?? You set my dog a-howling and the baby made poo-poo.
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