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    I think North Korea isn’t a place in the real world, rather, it’s a place in the hearts of libs everywhere, an idea of a place that they can cover an actually existing country with like a blanket, so they can pretend to be experts on them and announce their declarations of superiority.

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      Yeah it’s folklore for westerners. A bogeyman that they invoke to scare themselves. The supervillain to their superheroes. North Korea is the secular version of Satan that libs religiously align themselves against.

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    -Errm Akkkully you were undeveloped savage untnrmenschen that were not exposed to the superior technology and culture of us übermeschen.

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    Hoxha […] could learn from the quotations of Mao that he had received from Kang as a gift, and appreciated the fact that the book was in French, ‘the language of the Parisian communards’.97 Soon the Chinese foreign ministry sent additional explicative materials to Albania.98

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    China hosted an Albanian delegation headed by the Prime Minister of that time Mehmet Shehu. This meeting was described as a grand reception. According to Peking Review, it was a ceremony with 6,000 professional artists and dancers of different nationalities, who performed songs and dances in both Albanian and Chinese. The meeting finished emphasizing the famous words of Marx and Engels’ Communist Manifesto (1848), “Beijing–Tirana Workers of all countries unite.”9

    There was signing of joint Sino-Albanian declarations,10 which played a significant role in the “defense of Marxism-Leninism”11 as well as in the “triumph of socialism over imperialism and Marxism-Leninism over modern revisionism”12 it was written in the Albanian press at that time.

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    The restructuring of Albania’s foreign policy, which began immediately following the invasion of Czechoslovakia, made a breakthrough during 1970–73, when relations were established with nine West European and 15 Third World countries. Tirane made a concerted effort to reduce dependence on China by diversifying trade, diplomatic and cultural relations, especially with West European countries. The PSRA increased trade, liberalized its tourism policies, and, for the first time, permitted a considerable number of Western tourists to visit the country.33

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    Beginning in 1965, Albanians were sent to China to complete their doctoral dissertations; among them were Osman Kraja, who went to the Institute of Mathematics at the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and Shaban Baxhaku, who received his degree in differential geometry under Su Bu Chin at the University of Shanghai; Mina Naqo also went to China to specialize in functional analysis. The Albanians in China received royal treatment, stayed in the best hotels and had attendants assigned to take care of their needs, but their stay in China was cut short by the Chinese Cultural Revolution.

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