Incredibly splendid to hear. I hope you all had a fantastic Christmas. I find "Meet The New Boss" fascinating, and I have read it at least twice, have added 22 or so notes and highlighted numerous sections to record the maturation of this socialist Europe.
Exactly. The Koreans just wanted freedom from Imperialist occupation and the chance of a life to fully develop themselves and each other.
With the near-total U.S. occupation, I do see the old guerillas hiding in the forests and under the mountains again with the younger guerillas disrupting and...
The Soviets left the People's Republic of Korea after three years, in 1948. The Americans did not leave, despite the two superpowers had agreed to do so. The U.S.-backed "state" was sabre-rattling and provoked il-Sung in to trying to Liberate his homeland.
Poor Kim il-Sung and the other Korean revolutionary guerrillas. Their country - the D.P.R.K. - would be only two years old, and it's been overrun by the Americans and the U.N. Coalition. They only wanted independence and peace.
If I may, I do wish to those poor citizens of the country who died...
Consider, or count, me delighted to find a third series to see the Soviet Union and the Third International (did they re-establish the Communist International?) rising from strength to greater strength (all of Turtle Island south of the "U.S.A." and "Canada" becoming Soviet or "Comintern"...