Ceausescu visit in Pyongyang (20 may 1978)

[@peter12246]

Is it too much to ask, to be welcomed like this just ONCE, when I am coming home from work?

[@heiwiik8744]

*P E R H A P S*

[@Alexander-kc8nx]

I'd say yes.

[@troje3016]

3 am and crapping my pants from the laughter :))))))

[@stanislausklim7794]

NOT AT ALL!

[@skytornadi3384]

Become a politican and make a state vistit

[@marksman314]

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

[@Waterflux]

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]

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!

[@razvanvaleanu3971]

Marksman / You're bank-on here. This is when the schizophrenia really kicked in. He liked this so much so he want it in Romania too. Weird times.

[@iVenge]

Exactly. Too bad for him that Romanians are not Koreans. They were never even remotely capable of matching this.

[@Bonzibuddy4ever2]

+iVenge north korea trains people from birth to do this kind of shit. romanians just weren't creative enough about being cruel.

[@UnusSedLeo-w5l]

Glad they kept it low key.

[@antoniosilvestro9045]

A great communist paradise

[@TheRedSphinx]

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.

[@alexbeu3086]

As Romanian kids growing up in the 80's we were forced to practice choreography instead of playing ball. Now it all makes sense. Thanks a lot, Kim!

[@thunderbird1921]

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.

[@tovarase6760]

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]

​@@tovarase6760 Why force children to be slaves to a political party ? You should go where Ceausescu is or in North Korea.

[@tovarase6760]

@@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".

[@asnekboi7232]

@@cristianm7097they are different?

[@匿名的-1]

I don't think any leader has received such hospitality in history.

[@comradeleppi2000]

I think too

[@kazakhistyle6805]

Tito when he visited Kim in 1977, I think it was slightly bigger cause, you know, Tito.

[@匿名的-1]

@@kazakhistyle6805 Yea, they must've made a huge parade for him as well.

[@PaulRakoczi]

Its fake too

[@elenabibescu1848]

He was the most respected communist in the world, having good relationship with all the countries: west countries, Middle east, Africa, China, etc

[@Earthman99999]

The people's song and dance in the streets somehow reminds me of those musical numbers in a Disney animated movie.

[@kaboom138]

I knew i wasn't the only one thinking that! lol

[@dancapy]

The Muppets Show

[@Michallo50]

Slave show

[@jesusislord4135]

+@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.

[@jesusislord4135]

@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.

[@user-cf1se1kk5x]

This puts any olympic opening ceremonies to shame..totally surreal

[@antoniosilvestro9045]

Yes the Korean men fighting bravely with their Russian allies in Ukraine. Comrades and allies from the 50s and onwards eternally

[@pablonicolasangulo4356]

Absolutely. Much better than the charade in Paris 2024

[@antoniosilvestro9045]

@pablonicolasangulo4356 don't watch tournaments by terrorist states who have billions to waste but won't look after their own people and homeless 🤔

[@jeshkam]

​@@pablonicolasangulo4356My thoughts exactly. 😂😂

[@tigergreg8]

Except, if you messed up at the Olympics you don’t die. 😳

[@petergreen2552]

He didn't do much travelling after 1989.

[@2romanian4you20]

because he died in 1989

[@petergreen2552]

@@2romanian4you20 I Know. Duh!

[@revinhatol]

@@2romanian4you20 Christmas to be exact.

[@jj_wijaya6324]

@@2romanian4you20 rwooosh

[@v.emiltheii-nd.8094]

Except Iran maybe.

[@anwest]

Looked like a light version of my wedding.

[@cristinatraistaru6083]

anwest so, are you a gypsy?

[@abcd123906]

anwest Oh please! 😂

[@johnazhderian5734]

Typical American wedding!

[@minebrosteaex1096]

Oh, gypsy?

[@hendrikmodtler3659]

Very pleasant comment

[@alexanderchenf1]

Ceausesc was like "I could have never commanded my own people into such obedience..."

[@ruiamorim592]

Yeah, they were all miserable sniffing Aurolac

[@carlosnorris352]

He tried and we all know the outcome. Kind of like “force a romanian to do anything but sing praise for you”. 😂

[@TriplePistol]

He made the deal with devil

[@mihaialex6632]

@@ruiamorim592 :)))))))))))))))))

[@BltchErica]

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.

[@kimeg7294]

Why bring France to the table? Romanians suffered because they were under the wrong dictator.

[@LordOfChaos.x]

Ceausescu didint turn Romania into what North Korea was. People still had jobs, food was there. And country paid all debts.

[@theotherohlourdespadua1131]

​@@LordOfChaos.x The lack of food is one of the more direct reasons the Color revolution in Romainia happened...

[@LordOfChaos.x]

@@theotherohlourdespadua1131 it was rationed but nobody starved

[@hoodatdondar2664]

@@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.

[@tirelo]

bet he was thinking im not inviting him to romania after that, how the hell you top that

[@hannalorena302]

+Alex Joshua ar trebui sa face si ei ce am făcut noi cu Ceaușescu XD

[@skmedia7093]

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

[@hriscucostel5710]

actually, problems appeared in the 80's only Ceausescu came to power in 1964

[@adorno_gang37]

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.

[@robosapien3336]

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

[@MontgomeryMall]

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.

[@timoilonen1926]

Is this a true story? Good God...😂

[@MontgomeryMall]

That was what Sergiu Celac related after the fall of the Ceaucescu empire.

[@SpyShopRomania]

Greater than the Olympic Games!

[@fisichella78]

***** 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?

[@ricardo7308]

This is so surrealistic lol, He(ceacescu) could not believe what he was seeing lol

[@BellaG2013]

AMAZING WELCOME , CEAUSESCU WAS HAPPY LIKE A CHILD

[@heiligesromischesreich7441]

Now he is sad in hell.

[@gabrielabramoff3270]

@@heiligesromischesreich7441 But commies are atheists

[@mr.metamovies2419]

@@gabrielabramoff3270 The Devil couldn't care less if they don't believe in god.

[@hueyfreeman1983]

@@heiligesromischesreich7441 Alongside Thatcher, Reagan and Churchill

[@michaelmichael2382]

@Andy Ash how should that make sense ?

[@mrbeaver6000]

I wish I had a choir whenever I went somewhere. Or maybe just a barbershop quartet.

[@Mira-K]

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.

[@kaizersolze]

4:33 Kim: That's pretty bad ass, huh? Ceausescu (to self): Goddamn we're copying this.

[@Mihai769]

:)))

[@RAFA1234568iffi]

Hahahaha I always tought that they were saying something like this!

[@novakattila]

When you called your grandma before your visit and you told her you're a little hungry

[@richardnixon2639]

It seems that video quality in North Korea hasn't changed too much.

[@NorthKoreaUncovered]

Richard Nixon it really hasn’t trust me lol.

[@rockkitty100]

I think they are using the same equipment today.....

[@ExtremelyRareDPRKvideos]

@@NorthKoreaUncovered They have 1080p FHD since 2012 and 4k UHD since 2016 despite your sanctions, Yankoid🖕

[@MrKochaappan]

Incredible! Lost for words.

[@Michallo50]

Slaves can do everything

[@warrax111]

@@Michallo50 Are you realizing, that most of those people did it willingly?

[@anonymoususer6683]

warrax111 haha Lies!

[@josephcro2138]

Willingly as if you don't do it you'll be put in a working camp and your family will mysteriously disappear

[@weomxd]

@@warrax111 theres alot of pressure and social conformity in asian culture, definition of ''willingly'' is not the same.

[@LuciFrederiksen]

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

[@PoquePal]

Yeah, I hate how much skill goes to waste, Their Arirang mass games could be a huge hit in the west, I think millions would fall in love with it...

[@hasch5756]

How about we could do it ourselves?

[@darkostanisavljevic1105]

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.

[@yusofazila8873]

only pig head will.say.Pyongyang.good...

[@anjalialaniz]

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!

[@filipmac5577]

I can tell he was very impressed from his visit to the DPRK.

[@adamhinchliffe4979]

Looks like he had a lovely time in Pyongyang. They know how to put on a party.

[@ilililiililiil3006]

We can see the process of how Ceausescu went mad.

[@mr.metamovies2419]

All communists are absolutely mad.

[@kazakhistyle6805]

@@mr.metamovies2419 not tito tho

[@Wolfboy183]

the visit that inspired Ceausescu to make Romania into a dictatorship

[@TheLocalLt]

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

[@TheEyeball37]

@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.

[@whistleblower8363]

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!

[@omul0015]

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)

[@asnekboi7232]

He got what he deserved

[@hoodatdondar2664]

Lyrics revised in 1990.

[@teruterubozo]

That inspired Ceausescu to hold his own mass games right?

[@razvanvaleanu3971]

Yes, you're right. He was so impressed with what he saw in NK, he wanted a slice. This is when the schizophrenia really kicked in.

[@ricr.4669]

I have to say it's mindblogging amazing out of this world! Better than today's computer animation. Wow just wow!

[@Polomatse]

More than Respekt to these People.

[@JuniorJr...]

40 years later and you will see the same city, same cars, same haircuts and clothes. A country stuck in time...

[@stasgl92]

But another leader!))

[@kimchiwarrior7679]

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.

[@hoodatdondar2664]

@@kimchiwarrior7679 it all looks the same on KZbin vids, excepts the cars.

[@isaacasunciongallardo9781]

​@@kimchiwarrior7679it's for the show

[@MACYNET323]

That's tradition, man.

[@Nomadicmillennial92]

4:46 LOL awkward

[@johncole5052]

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.

[@MetalizedButt]

Who’s that guy? Kim’s father?

[@behemotors4950]

And no meme were created yet?!?!

[@enemyspotted1334]

grandfather

[@toxy3580]

@@MetalizedButt Kim Il Sung

[@alexandersohn569]

Elena: I bet he's cheating on me with other women Ceauşescu:

[@heinzguderianbutmoreyounge9659]

Elena was in the back car,i know its a meme but elene was there with Kim wifd

[@wengercleopatra2150]

He never cheated on her, actually.

[@marcofreyssonnet9673]

They were actually a fusional couple who have stayed faithful to each other every single day

[@SuperSooner]

What a great art, Koreans can make a big economy out of this art

[@Hyxhxie]

Nicolae was so impressed he wanted his country to be like that

[@marindihoru9410]

Amari Watson his country is better than Korea

[@razvanvaleanu3971]

Exactly, You're bang-on here,

[@oaaisjdujsi]

@@marindihoru9410 south korea? South korea is way better than shithole. But yes his cou try is better than north korea

[@debudasatriawibawa9405]

@@oaaisjdujsi a Korean nickname with Japan rising sun flag on profile, wait, what?

[@editscredits]

@@debudasatriawibawa9405 That is japanese troll.

[@Majcix9]

4:04 real happiness

[@NRG1985]

I guess that on 20 May 1978, 20% of North Korea GDP was depleted for this big show.

[@rockkitty100]

The balance went to the military

[@SilverPlaqueVII]

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.

[@GabrielDima98]

So then, he came back to Romania, built the Palace of the Parliament, starved the whole country and died

[@SilverPlaqueVII]

And Romania, as one of the poorest nations in Europe, went on to become a NATO and EU member aligning it with the US who is at Russia’s doorstep.

[@GabrielDima98]

@@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.

[@hoodatdondar2664]

@@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.

[@mr.quacko3884]

Aaah that old fashioned crank up volume of the 70s 🤤🤤🤤

[@SoccorsiBis]

Che accoglienza, ordine. pulizia, disciplina degne di di un grande paese e di un popolo meraviglioso

[@jasona8608]

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!

[@huongtranthanh5608]

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?

[@kennethsouthard6042]

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.

[@kennethsouthard6042]

@@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.

[@johnazhderian5734]

Lincoln: the car for evil Communist dictators!

[@johnazhderian5734]

@@captainnovolin They are definitely Lincolns.

[@Alex-vs6mq]

O mare , mare cinste pentru Ceausescu sa fie primit asa frumos ! Un foarte mare respect pentru coreeni !

[@marshmallowbudgie]

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

[@marshmallowbudgie]

4:43 man, Kim's just shaking Nicolae like a purse dog

[@ezequielvazquez4879]

0:15 North Korea defended LGBTQI+ rights and we had never realized!

[@ShiviRo]

🤣

[@jaskkk]

this is just a rainbow, which symbol was later captured by those perverts. but Putin will soon return rainbow to normal people all over the world!

[@dorusalman4000]

Sincer la asa ceva nu ma gandeam vreo data ca fostul nostru presdinte comunist CEAUSESCU a avut o asa primire spectaculoasa !

[@ALF3Y]

what an amazing country, i plan on moving to north korea soon, god bless pyongpang

[@comradeleppi2000]

So now 10 yr after. Did you moved?

[@JerrtjeeeMoDz]

@@comradeleppi2000 he doesn't have internet anymore haha

[@cum5681]

​@@JerrtjeeeMoDzguy is probably executed for not meeting the quota on coal mining lol

[@LordOfChaos.x]

​@@comradeleppi2000he prolly was executed

[@hoodatdondar2664]

@@LordOfChaos.x By his avatar, for not having one of the eighteen standard allowed haircuts.

[@따언]

It looks like Jimmy Carter'visit in Seoul, 1979.

[@moviemaker0304]

"All animals are equal, but some are more equal than others"

[@briennethemaid]

Irina Volkoeva And you understand them? Fuck off.

[@sgtreznov9869]

that was shit propaganda against communism and nothing else

[@anbban5499]

Who are you referring to as animals here?

[@sentenz4663]

.

[@seasalt489]

"All anti-communists are retarded yet some are more retarded than others"

[@tayyiparslanturk9976]

The most productive thing i've ever seen.

[@asmvax]

Impressive

[@teoandre]

tão lindo ver a espontaneidade desse povo em homenagear uma figura tão popular como essa! heahehhae

[@asnekboi7232]

Press x to doubt

[@mercenary1704]

Dois tiranos sanguinários enquanto ceausescu recebeu o que merecia a mão de ferro da dinastia Kim contínua aterrorizando a Coreia do Norte

[@northkoreakp834]

thank you for your video of the year of 1978 in Roumania

[@fisichella78]

the video is "of year of 1978" in North Korea, dumbell....

[@aaronplatt8714]

Those 75 Lincoln limos carried both Kims in their funeral processions 1994 and 2011

[@johnmurdoch8534]

They are beautiful, imposing vehicles fit for it.

[@northkoreakp834]

thank you for your video, nice to see them

[@davesmith6624]

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

[@XtreemMetalManRedToTheBone]

Explain the cult of personality shit then. This is from 70s. Explain.

[@davesmith6624]

XtreemMetalMan Kim Il Sung wanted to be worshipped,he was as paranoid as Stalin. Kim Jong Il was also.

[@XtreemMetalManRedToTheBone]

So the reason NK is so ducked up is not just the west fault.

[@SilverPlaqueVII]

Thanks to Gorby yes.

[@testmangadget1424]

Putin: "why didn't I get this treatment?"

[@0mon0zz]

Bruh, this is like a Disney movie.

[@rvrffdd6416]

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 😂

[@Brisoup1]

Ya gotta hand it to the North Koreans, 3:17 they can put on one hell of a half-time show.

[@Waterflux]

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

[@Earthman99999]

This almost looks like a Disney production.

[@TheMotz55]

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.

[@bartlarsson6432]

It’s like an Olympics opening ceremony.

[@MC_Elie]

I gotta give credit where credit is due. They sure as hell know how to make a welcoming gesture.

[@kapatidtomas]

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

[@asnekboi7232]

It’s called totalitarianism

[@eugeniobevilacqua4606]

Amazing. Frightening and beautifully perfect.

[@cosminmodrisan8045]

Romania & North Korea FRIENDS and BROTHERS FOREVER !!! 🇷🇴 🤝❤🤝🇰🇵

[@asnekboi7232]

Misery loves company 😂

[@DjoleMilenkovic996]

Upravo sam odgledao najzanimljiviji snimak na KZbin-u! 😄😄😄

[@gabrielfarkas257]

3:44 my birthday is also in 8. May

[@incogninto1-1]

Coincidence?

[@messchermitt262germanjetfi9]

Whats the name of the song that begins at 1:17

[@gabrielgri]

E

[@中国毛泽东]

Darude-Sandstorm

[@TheLocalLt]

Messchermitt262 GermanJetFighter sounds russian

[@TheMemeDynamics]

Dear Ceaușescu Original title is 친근하신 챠우쉐스꾸 동지의 노래

[@TheMrpeejoe]

3:43 I had never seen North Korea make this specific floor show for Ceausescu.

[@alexander1989x]

4:44 When your weird friend made a surprize party and don't know what to do or say.

[@ChristianGrabe]

Leaders who are really loved by their people!❤

[@SLCQD]

Si avec un tel accueil on ne se sent pas le bienvenu alors y a un problème :D Magistral!

[@irinabalan6089]

Ce se iubesc comuniștii între ei d UL Ceaușescu copiii sotia❤😊❤

[@theoffensiveidiot5996]

Nicolae was so impressed during this visit, that he tried the same thing in Romania, but in a shitty way, and it got stale quickly lol

[@antoniosilvestro9045]

He was invited to Buckingham Palace and sat with the Queen

[@Larryberry961]

1:03 - Eyes on the road! Eyes on the road!

[@lwnamr]

4:44...epic Ceausescu face...rupe manaaaa!

[@applesandgrapesfordinner4626]

If I were a leader visiting NK, I'd be terrified and would rather want to keep it down. Ceaussescu on the otner hand seemed inspired by it, for worse.

[@keoke]

wow, Kim Il Sung really did his best to honour Ceausescu there. I wonder what he got in return.

[@ArmyJames]

A BJ.

[@traderli5811]

After he returned to Romania,he began to imitate kim ri sung until 1989.

[@danelirimescu6832]

Starting the 80's Until then it was ok ay

[@gabrielfarkas257]

2:56 does anyone know that song's name ?

[@writingdirection2524]

I know you asked a year ago but just in case you're still searching - this is the "Happiness for the Great Leader (Leader Arrival song)"

[@heinzguderianbutmoreyounge9659]

@@writingdirection2524 did you know the start of the video music? Not song of general Kim il sung

[@juliandasilva1001]

​@@heinzguderianbutmoreyounge9659i think it's an Improvised sonh

[@johngalt1448]

A modest welcome to the head of a small country thousands of miles away...

[@Waterflux]

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.

[@andrewcarr4256]

Maybe they could organise something similar for Brexit

[@TheLocalLt]

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) ?

[@am1966ath]

@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.

[@SilverPlaqueVII]

Which eventually started to build nukes.

[@noelmoran1022]

Definite comparisons to Dorothys welcome to Munchinland in the Wizard of Oz..lol

[@kolth2]

친근하신 챠우쉐스꾸동지의 노래 CHINGŬNHASIN CHYAUSWESŬKKUDONGJIŬI NORAE SONG FOR GREAT COMRADE CEAUSESCU 자주의 기발을 높이 들고서 Jajuŭi gibarŭl nobi dŭlgosŏ Raising the banners of freedom high, 언제나 우리가 같이 나가네 Ŏnjena uriga gathi nagane We always go forward together. 칭사 평양, 부꾸레슈띠! Chingsa Phyŏngyang, Bukkuresyutti! Let Pyongyang and Bucuresti be friends! 친근하신 챠우쉐스꾸! Chingŭnhasin Chyauswesŭkku! Dear comrade Ceausescu! 환영, 챠우쉐스꾸! 환영, 챠우쉐스꾸! Hwanyŏng, Chyauswesŭkku! Hwanyŏng, Chyauswesŭkku! Welcome, Ceausescu! Welcome, Ceausescu! 칭사 평양, 부꾸레슈띠! Chingsa Phyŏngyang, Bukkuresyutti! Let Pyongyang and Bucuresti be friends! 친근하신 챠우쉐스꾸! Chingŭnhasin Chyauswesŭkku! Dear comrade Ceausescu! 대륙을 넘어 멀리 있어도 Daeryugŭl nŏmŏ mŏlri issŏdo Even if it's far away, on other continent 언제나 마음에 가까운 나라 Ŏnjena maŭme gakkaun nara This country is always in our hearts. 칭사 평양, 부꾸레슈띠! Chingsa Phyŏngyang, Bukkuresyutti! Let Pyongyang and Bucuresti be friends! 친근하신 챠우쉐스꾸! Chingŭnhasin Chyauswesŭkku! Dear comrade Ceausescu! 환영, 챠우쉐스꾸! 환영, 챠우쉐스꾸! Hwanyŏng, Chyauswesŭkku! Hwanyŏng, Chyauswesŭkku! Welcome, Ceausescu! Welcome, Ceausescu! 칭사 평양, 부꾸레슈띠! Chingsa Phyŏngyang, Bukkuresyutti! Let Pyongyang and Bucuresti be friends! 친근하신 챠우쉐스꾸! Chingŭnhasin Chyauswesŭkku! Dear comrade Ceausescu!

[@elfish795]

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.

[@philipnealy3441]

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!

[@hueyfreeman1983]

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

[@Styxswimmer]

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.

[@Styxswimmer]

@@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.

[@vranceanknight4212]

​@@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.

[@monsieurputaclic503]

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.

[@UK31337]

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.

[@enemyspotted1334]

Thank god it didnt happen...

[@MrEjidorie]

Two ruthless dictators met in Pyongyang, and Ceausescu was deeply impressed by Kim Il Sung`s personality cult. And Ceausescu mimiced Kim`s cult of personality. But it provoked antipathy among Rumanian people, and his regime collapsed.

[@dvid6202]

I wish I was welcomed like this in school ;)

[@helvihautala9267]

Those Lincolns were marketed as being in commemoration of the 200Th anniversary of the American Revolution. How did they smuggle a stretch Lincoln? It was later used as a hearse. I saw the NK ambassador to the UN in one in New Jersey. All the nice used cars for sale in NJ and he was riding in a piece of garbage. Koreand own service stations so it might get interesting if the ambassador showed up at one.

[@DonnellGreen]

3:28 When you throwing yo homie a party but the one dude is no having enough movement.

[@andreasmoser6365]

Look, they already had drones back then! 3:30

[@ioanpena]

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 !!!

[@anbban5499]

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?

[@ioanpena]

@@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 !!!

[@anbban5499]

@@ioanpena But no one did put a kinfe on any of his bone. Did they?

[@jesusislord4135]

+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).

[@anonUK]

@@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.

[@Tokopol]

@bubadebub Songs #1 and #3 are both Romanian songs as well. I dont know which songs they are (a user named @lenin502 has an account with a wealth of Ceaucescu-related songs, so I'll research it), but it fits into the alternating pattern of Ceaucescu/Kim il-Sung songs.

[@marius_m.]

ma tot gandesc cat de greu este sa organizezi un astfel de spectacol