After all this I am not really bothered by juche gang posts, whether ironic or not, like damn. South Korea was just indefinitely worse than North Korea, it was like a fucking totalitarian state. It wasn’t until the 80s that the economic situation reversed. I mean I don’t think anyone should support the current regime but when you learn that more bombs were dropped on North Korea per capita than anywhere else in the world, ever, it becomes understandable why they’re seen as a backwards country with no development. The country was literally flattened by US bombing campaigns. And then you learn that Kim il sung gave rights to women while Rhee was murdering suspected communists by the thousands. The US was committing atrocities like No Gun Ri and yet in the common image America and South Korea are the good guys. I mean, fuck, I don’t think I can support the direction that Kim Jong un has taken North Korea in, but after learning this it solidifies my anti American views, there is officially no war after WW2 that America was justified in. I can’t believe that anti Korean War sentiment isn’t as high as anti Vietnam war, more people need to know about this
The Red Scare was probably one of the most successful propaganda campaigns to ever take foot in America while also being so deeply flawed. There was like a dozen related court cases about it and how "unconstitutional" some of it was, with the holes clearly visible to people who believed in that 2 century old piece of paper as if it were the scripture wrote by god themselves-- and none of that actually mattered. They still were able to convince the majority of the population that if there was communism building up somewhere in the world, no matter how small, it was a direct threat to the people of the US. The body count the US has on its hands over it is almost never spoken about, still to this day, with all the knowledge we have of how horrible those campaigns were, it's still viewed as a mostly righteous fight.
Just look at what the US did to Laos. Of course it should have never of happened. But there is still around 80 million unexploded bombs in Laos, right now, that the US dropped and have they done ANYTHING tangible to rectify this? No, and people are still being maimed or killed from those unexploded ordinance. But does this get added the, "Deaths from Capitalism," right next to all the other tragedies this world has had? lol