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catman
Joined: 18 Jul 2004
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 Posted: Sat Apr 28, 2007 5:26 pm Post subject: Kim IL-Sung was a fraud |
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http://vn.vladnews.ru/Arch/2003/ISS345/News/upd10.HTM
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Grigory Mekler was a Soviet 'spin doctor' ordered to help North Korea's now-demised leader Kim il Sung climb to power in 1945.
Now a 90-year-old pensioner, Mekler said in an interview that he had spent a year touring North Korea with Kim Il Sung, gleaning the leader mass popularity.
In April 1945 army chiefs in the Russian Far East were ordered to find a suitable leader for a new Korean state, and Mekler, a propaganda expert, was one of those entrusted with the task.
"Imagine what a responsibility it was. Basically the future of an entire nation was at stake," said Mekler.
Marshal Meretskov, Commander of the Far East Front, asked Mekler whether he had heard of a man called Kim Il Sung.
In fact Mekler had met Kim Il Sung in 1944, when the Korean was training at a Soviet army camp for Chinese and Korean guerillas near Khabarovsk in the Russian Far East. The Soviet officer found out that Kim, who then commanded a Korean battalion, had borrowed his name from the previous commander. Kim's predecessor, highly respected by Korean guerrillas, was killed in action.
"I want you to work on this person," said Meretskov, referring to Kim. "At the moment not many people know him. Travel to every corner of North Korea with him. It will be useful for both of you."
Kim Il Sung, who gained the rank of major in the Soviet army, returned to Korea in 1945 with the occupying forces, and Mekler and other Soviet advisers spent a year touring with him, even helping to write his speeches.
"When he was taking his first steps towards power, he didn't do anything without taking our advice," recollected the Soviet colonel.
Initially Kim Il Sung experienced some setbacks. "Sometimes after his speeches at demonstrations there was silence," said Mekler. "But later people started clapping."
Stalin approved of the choice of Kim Il Sung, believes Mekler, and the Korean was "sincerely in love with Stalin."
Kim Il Sung was invited to Moscow and was taken to a shop for distinguished guests, where they could take any item for free, even a motor car.
Asked what he chose, Kim Il Sung answered, "A car for Kim Jong Il (his son)," and showed Mekler a small toy truck.
The Korean leader declared that, "North Korea and the USSR are brothers for all time. Stalin and I forever," recalled Mekler.
Mekler also met the current North Korean leader Kim Jong Il as a three-year-old child, and keeps photographs of himself with Kim Il Sung's family.
Before Mekler returned to Moscow, Kim Il Sung asked for a final word of advice. "I answered with the famous English phrase 'Look before you leap'," recalled the Russian.
Korea was a Japanese colony from 1910 until 1945, when the USSR and the United States occupied the north and south of the peninsula. Neither superpower was prepared to withdraw and give way to an independent Korea, and in 1948 two separate states, the Republic of Korea and the People's Democratic Republic of Korea, were formed.
Kim Il Sung created the North Korean Communist Party in 1945 and was elected premier of the republic in 1948.
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jeffkim1972
Joined: 10 Jan 2007
Location: Mokpo
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| Posted: Sat Apr 28, 2007 7:04 pm Post subject: |
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Yes, but this is old news. Even when he first appeard on the scene, there were stories that Kim Il Sung was made up.
It was very well misinformation propogated by the South Koreans.
You can't prove either side.
It's fact that Kim Il Sung received help from the Soviets in the form of training, education, he was also able to speak Russian.
Nothing wrong with that. All of the Russian allies of smaller countries went to Russia to be indoctrinated in their policies. |
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twg
Joined: 02 Nov 2006
Location: Getting some fresh air...
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| Posted: Sat Apr 28, 2007 8:49 pm Post subject: |
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| Maybe, but we're all agreed that he was a douchebag, right? |
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Hollywoodaction
Joined: 02 Jul 2004
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| Posted: Sat Apr 28, 2007 9:02 pm Post subject: |
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Jeff,
It's a fact that Kim Il Sung is not his real name (neither is Kim Jong Il his son's birth name, for that matter). Regardless of whether he did borrow the name from someone else, Kim Il Sung was indeed a fraud. His whole life and accomplishments were fabrications. We know that he did little against the Japanese during the occupation, spending much of his time in hiding, and yet he claimed having defeated the Japanese (we all know how it war really ended). To make matters worse, he was at best a minor communist leader who would have never gained power in North Korea without the support of Russia, which is why he/they quickly purged the most important Korean communist leaders. |
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jajdude
Joined: 18 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Sun Apr 29, 2007 12:45 am Post subject: |
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Darn, that ruins my ideal of him and son of a .....
Here's a lovely site:
http://www.geocities.com/songunpoliticsstudygroup/RevolutionaryLessons.html
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KIM JONG IL Selected Works 1 p.293
Our leader is the supreme revolutionary genius, the sun of the nation and the benevolent father of our people, who has built a socialist paradise on this land and brought the people the happiness and glory we see today, by leading the arduous Korean revolution along the path of trials to victory without the slightest vacillation.
Because of the immortal feats he has performed for mankind, his extraordinary intelligence, outstanding leadership ability and lofty communist virtue, the great leader is supported and boundlessly revered by the people.
Our people eagerly desire to meet their fatherly leader who, by devoting his entire life to the freedom and liberation of the people and leading the vanguard of the revolution and socialist construction, has provided them with the greatest happiness and continues to provide the condition for their lives to flourish, and once they have met him, they brim over with the resolution to give their wholehearted loyalty to the leader, they are engrossed in infinitely solemn feelings and emotions. |
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wylies99
Joined: 13 May 2006
Location: I'm one cool cat!
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| Posted: Sun Apr 29, 2007 4:31 am Post subject: |
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Maybe, but we're all agreed that he was a douchebag, right?
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You know it, and the acorn hasn't fallen far from the tree.
(acorn = nut) |
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