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[This is from the same timeline as the People's Republic of Korea timeline.](https://lemmygrad.ml/post/433473) After a period of negotiations between the CPSU and the Socialist Unity Party from 1949-51, war reparations – which in our timeline amounted to approximately USD$100b – to be paid by the GDR to the USSR, were cancelled – accompanied by the return of industry (which had been carted away during the immediate post-War era). The effect of this was a smaller portion of the GDR's national income going towards Soviet coffers, and more reinvestment – producing exponential returns. Observing the negative effects of the brain drain of skilled technicians and scientists across the border, the GDR constructed the border wall in 1954, seven years earlier than in our timeline, and in doing so headed off its brain drain. But not the concrete division was not intended to last – the 1971 market crash signalled the beginning of a long period of recession and stagnation in the GDR's neighbour – officially known as the Federal Republic of Germany, and colloquially known as West Germany. While the United States was embroiled in the Vietnam War, subsidies to the FRG's economy trickled to a halt – the US government had more important things to worry about than the performance of the West German industrial sector. In the same period, the socialist planned economy of East Germany consistently expanded year after year – the anarchy of market capitalism having been superseded by scientific socialist relations of production. Originally almost deindustrialized, with an economy historically poorer than the western regions, the GDR advanced forward in leaps and bounds – expanding by a consistent 7-9% each year. By 1973, GDP per capita had equalized with West Germany, and by 1980, the GDR's GDP per capita stood at €15,000 while the FRG stood at €13,800. With Khrushchev's faction losing the power struggle within the CPSU to Molotov's faction in the 1950s, the economic reforms establishing profit as the main criterion for evaluating the success of a firm never became prominent. In our timeline, these reforms lead to stagnation, corruption, and inefficiency – firms were neither effectively planned from the centre, nor were they disciplined by market forces – in this timeline, subsidies for innovative products were retained (as opposed to being abolished in the mid-1950s) and the CPSU embarked upon a course of continually perfecting production techniques and reducing labour hours. The indirect effect of reducing labour hours was forcing firms to effectively utilise all reserve labour, to allow more women and young people (otherwise discouraged by the longer hours) to enter into the workforce, to increase the intensity of production (increasing labour efficiency), and to oblige these firms to think about using labour in a more conservative way – increasing mechanisation and automation, and cutting down on unnecessary "boilerplate" work. The CPSU being the vanguard of vanguards, the Socialist Unity Party of the GDR soon followed in its wake, introducing very similar programmes. After furious debate within the Central Committee of the SUP(GDR), it was decided that the border wall would be reopened in 1981, reuniting families and making for spectacular photo opportunities. But the fall of the Berlin Wall signified the strengthening of socialism rather than its fall – disenchanted with an inert economy, lower incomes and scarce employment opportunities, West German professionals soon found themselves visiting the GDR, although in 1981, still only a few hundred had decided to permanently relocate. The tables had turned – before the construction of the Wall, the GDR had lost 55,000 skilled workers to the more prosperous West – but the West soon found itself in a very difficult position, with 88,200 declaring their allegiance to socialism in East Germany from 1981-89. By 1987, West Germany's Social Democratic Party (SPD) was seriously discussing constructing another wall, or at least heavily limiting immigration – but soon every political party that openly discussed the problem found itself the target of jeers and rebukes. Pre-empting the West German decision to massively restrict emigration, popular support or not, in order to head off the skilled-labour crisis that was rapidly unfolding, the GDR unexpectedly offered to collaborate with the FRG to reduce movement across the border, in exchange for certain economic concessions: the emerging microelectronics industry (the only area in which the West could call itself superior in) was of particular interest. East German negotiators offered to restrict border movement from the annual 180,000 people (in 1988) to only 15,000, with the restrictions coming into effect within two years. Within that time, the FRG would pay microelectronics factories to close up shop and relocate to the East, along with sending trained personnel to educate East Germans on production techniques. Soon after the agreements were set in stone, the FRG government realized that it had made an enormous mistake: once people had heard that border movement would be stopped, many skilled professionals (who lived in the West and went to the East for work every day) instead opted to permanently drop their West German citizenship and undergo naturalization in the GDR. At the same time, the closure of microelectronics factories across the country contributed to a minor (but considerable) uptick in unemployment. West German labour unions refused to allow the factories to simply be shut down, and extracted concessions in the tens of millions, all of which eventually came from the vaults of the West German government. But the worst was soon to come – in 1991, international stock markets shedded half of their value over the course of three weeks, and the FRG soon lost 30% of its industrial output. By 1991, GDP per capita in East Germany had grown to an astounding €30,200, while West Germany, wracked with inequality and debt, averaged at €14,600 – with most of that wealth concentrated in the pockets of the wealthy. In East Germany, the Sixth Five-Year Plan brought with it a cap on labour-hours to an absurdly low 16 hours a week – severely demoralizing the West, and throwing it into a political crisis. By November of that year, after a snap election and several unsuccessful coalition negotiations, the Federal Republic of Germany had not yet fallen, but from Bonn to Koblenz to Düsseldorf, violence was erupting in every major city. With plentiful financial aid from East Germany, communist guerilla groups, such as the re-emerging Red Army Faction, clashed with police, with local governments being dissolved everywhere. With the USA taking an isolationist stance after withdrawing from Vietnam in 1986, NATO bit its nails, fretted, and delayed, until the West German government inevitably dissolved, and was integrated with the GDR in 1995. By 1996, after civil order had been restored in the unified Germany, this poster started appearing across several US cities, encouraging Americans to defect to the GDR.

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::: spoiler Full Speech “Mexicans, Mexicans, long live Independence! Long live Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla! Long live Josefa Ortiz de Dominguez! Long live Ignacio Allende! Long live Leona Vicario! Long live José María Morelos y Pavón! Long live Vicente Guerrero!”, Said the Mexican president before thousands of people. Long live!”, Was the response that he received again and again. “Long live the anonymous heroes! Long live freedom! Long live equality! Long live justice! Long live democracy! Long live sovereignty! Long live universal brotherhood! Long live peace!” continued the president. Just at that moment, and to the surprise of those present, the Mexican president changed "long live them" to "die them." “Death to corruption! Death to classism! Death to racism!” López Obrador said. Before concluding and ringing the bells, he launched three more “alives”. One for the indigenous peoples, another for the cultural greatness of Mexico and for the country. ::: [sound](https://i.imgur.com/jVdYXz6.mp4[]())

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The world needs more High Quality videos like these.

Games trash don't play its p2w

Not an Accelerationist or a fan of Nick Land btw just thought this edit was cool.

Couldn't even post on genzedong without it being downvoted to oblivion in 2 seconds

Had to post again because this is🔥af If only they used the actual Juche logo, that would be nice.

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The People's Republic of Korea was a united Korean government which administered the peninsula after the end of Japanese occupation. After a year, the southern half was forcibly dissolved by the American military, and the Republic of Korea was formed after Syngman Rhee was flown in from the United States. The PRK became the DPRK and continued on. In this alternate timeline, the US government's proposal to divide Soviet and American occupation zones along the 38th parallel on August 10 is rejected by the Soviet government, instead of being accepted. By August 30, 1945, Soviet forces reach Seoul, and by September 5, they have total control over the entire peninsula. Likewise, the Soviet leadership is more aggressive in the Moscow Conference in December, wherein Japan is similarly divided into spheres of influence. The People's Republic of Korea is founded by September, with Lyuh Woon-hyung, a united-front moderate-left politician, elected to lead the new unified Korean state in the first democratic elections with 48.4% in the November 1945 election. Kim Koo, a Korean nationalist comes in at second at 36.0%, and Pak Hon-yong, leading the Workers' Party of Korea captures 15.6%. The WPK and Soviet-allied organizations, however, maintain ownership over presses and media instruments in major cities such as Pyongyang and Seoul, and receive favourable funding from the USSR. A vicious and highly-successful propaganda campaign culminates in the WPK soaring to 47.3%, placing them above the ruling UKP (Unified Korea Party) lead by Lyuh Woon-hyung, who receives 39.8% of the votes in the 1948 election. Kim, a fervent anti-communist, in a series of talks conducted in November, agrees to enter into a coalition with Lyuh, allowing them to slightly edge out the WPK by three seats in the Assembly of People's Committees, the legislative and executive organ of government. However, Kim Koo and Lyuh Woon-hyung prove to have too many policy differences to form a successful coalition, and Koreans, disillusioned with the ability of Lyuh to provide a stable government, and disillusioned with Kim Koo's rampant opportunism, show their discontent in the 1951 elections. Pak Hon-yong's WPK, with the help of continued Soviet funding, and restrictions on campaigning by other contestants, wins 77.7% of the vote. Absent the Korean War, in which 10% of the population were killed, where American saturation bombing turned cities and industry into rubble, and the scorched-earth policy destroyed agriculture, the People's Republic of Korea thrives. Industrial production is increasingly centralized and coordinated under the 1951 First Five-Year Plan of the People's Republic of Korea, and war reparations extracted from the former Japanese Empire end up in the Korean budget. Public works programmes electrify the country and lay out vital infrastructure, and agriculture is collectivised from 1952 to 1960. Labour productivity increases, along with wages, and helped by vigorous trade with other COMECON countries, from 1951 to 1980, average annual nominal GDP growth is 12.1%. Pak Hon-yong remains a popular leader, resigning from office in 1971 with a 97% approval rating. By 1983, Kaesong, Seoul, and Pyongyang have become the idyllic beacons of socialist development, as well as major tourist hot-spots in the socialist bloc. The three cities are visited by 1,150,000 people in total annually. Due to rippling effects in the Soviet leadership that come as a result of the success of the PRK, the power-struggle that plays out between Georgy Malenkov and Nikita Khrushchev in 1954 after Stalin's death results in Malenkov consolidating power. Handsome and charming, throughout Malenkov's 27 years as First Secretary of the CPSU and Chairman of the Central Committee of the CPSU from 1954 to 1981, he tactfully engages with the problem of nationalism, retains strong connections with the People's Republic of China, negotiates bilateral limitations on arms spending with the United States, shifts production from extensive to intensive, increases labour discipline, uses long-term social programmes to reduce alcoholism, and cracks down on the growing "second economy" (the black market) - putting a halt to the social forces that, in our timeline, lead to the downfall of the USSR. Unlike Khrushchev, who focused on light industry (consumer goods - the means of consumption) - Malenkov, in the tradition of Stalin's leadership, focuses on heavy industry. From 1951 to 1960, the economic growth trajectory continues as it did in our timeline - but not bogged down by Khrushchev's disastrous Virgin Lands Campaign, and with a focus on long-term future growth enabled by investing in heavy industry, from 1960 to 1975, per capita GNP growth per annum is about 0.7% higher, and averages at 9.3% per year. By 1983, the USSR is lead by Yuri Andropov, who seems keen to follow the path laid out by Malenkov, but also to address stagnation, formulaism, and ossification of Party institutions in a vast series of revitalization and anti-corruption campaigns. By the time this travel poster came out, Gosplan, realizing the inadequacy of slow hand calculations, in the Eleventh Five-Year Plan, had pivoted the Soviet economy in the direction of microelectronics, automation, and computerised planning systems. In the United States, high unemployment, inflation, and stagnation are the hallmarks of the American economy. The average citizen of the socialist bloc is not as wealthy as the average American citizen in monetary terms, but they continue to enjoy full employment, guaranteed pensions, paid maternity leave, limits on working hours, free healthcare and education (including higher education), subsidized vacations, inexpensive housing, low-cost childcare, subsidized public transportation, rough income equality, and a sense of optimism and hope for the future. By this point, the People's Republic of Korea ranks 17th by GDP per capita, coming after the German Democratic Republic and New Zealand.

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[context](https://weirdrussia.com/2015/05/26/soviet-woman-from-2061-sci-fi-art-contest/) Idk this kind of makes me emotional...