NationStates Jolt Archive

Pyongyang, November 25 (KCNA) -- President Kim Il Sung will always live in the hearts of humankind for his immortal exploits performed for the era and history and the rays of Juche will brightly indicate the way to be followed by them at all times. M. Jahangir Khan, leader of Comrade Kim Il Sung Works Study Group of Barisal, Bangladesh, who led the delegation of organizations for the study of the Juche idea of Bangladesh, said this when interviewed by a KCNA reporter at Pyongyang Koryo Hotel before its departure for home. He said that it was great honor for the delegation to visit Mangyongdae, the holy place of revolution, where the President, founder of the Juche idea and great saint of humankind, was born and spent his childhood.

The President liberated Korea and devoted his whole life to the happiness of the people and the struggle to accomplish the human cause of independence, he noted, and continued:

The Juche idea is the man-centered idea clarifying that popular masses are the maker of history on the basis of the philosophical principle that man is the master of everything and decides everything.

I became an ardent adherent to the Juche idea, enchanted by his great idea in the course of reading famous works of the President. The Juche idea is now being developed and enriched by leader Kim Jong Il, he stressed.

*wanks to Kim Jong Il*

I knew that Commies were crazy.... but GOD DAMM!:eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek:

Adoption of Anti-North "Resolution on Human Rights Performance" Assailed by South Koreans
Pyongyang, November 25 (KCNA) -- There is mounting criticism of the adoption of the anti-north "resolution on human rights performance" at the UN General Assembly. Jong Un Sik, representative of the Peace Net of south Korea, in a statement released on Nov. 18 said that the three "resolutions" of the UN Committee on Human Rights and the recent adoption of one more "resolution" arouses the suspicion that the UN is being reduced to a tool for implementing the U.S.-sponsored unilateral "policy on human rights issue in the north." The statement said:
It is our hope that the UN will reflect on its approach towards the human rights issue in north Korea, the stand based on criticism and pressure, and opt for a just settlement of it on the basis of sincerity and good faith. We also urge the south Korean government to comprehensively reexamine its passive and defensive stand on which it has only emphasized the peculiarity of the south-north relations and give spurs to creating an international environment. Meanwhile, an editor of Minjok Thongsin, made public a commentary titled "No human rights without sovereignty" on Nov. 19 at which he denounced those forces for hailing the adoption of the "resolution".
He observed that they seemed not to know properly about some members of the international community which unconditionally said "yes" to what was sponsored by the U.S., Britain and other powers.
These forces are no more than imbeciles who do not know even the fact that the U.S., Britain and other powers are the countries which deprived other countries of their sovereignty and colonized them and have preached human rights and democracy for their peoples and international community, the commentary noted, and continued:
What is more deplorable is the fact that some media in south Korea whose position is no better than that under a colonial rule are talking about "human rights issue" in the north and treacherous political forces such as the "Grand National Party" accused the government for people, which abstained from voting for the "resolution," of being a leftist. Such traitorous and sycophantic forces do not understand the stark fact that they will also die when a war breaks out on the Korean Peninsula and it is none other than the U.S. that abuses human rights, in actuality.
It is the way of protecting human rights and world peace to condemn those countries which have threatened other countries by force and violated their sovereignty and stand against the arbitrary practices of a handful of big powers including the U.S. This is, at the same time, the only way of combating terrorism.

Yes, the UN is SO obviously a US puppet.

If Kim Il-Sung is gonna keep wanking like that I'm calling in the M0ds!

Kim Il Sung, the Great Leader, and his son Kim Yong Il, the Beloved Leader, are bloody amateurs compared to his Excellency Saparmurat Niyazov, the great Turkmenbashi, President of Turkmenistan.

Holy shit! Dictator-Cult Communism? This is getting pretty fucking feaky.

Holy shit! Dictator-Cult Communism? This is getting pretty fucking feaky.

There is a reason for the whole enforced atheism thing in Communist States. The idea is to replace conventional religion (especially Christianity) with the 'worship" of the state or more accurately the figurehead for the state. Notice the massive character-cults for Lenin, Stalin, Moa, and Kim.

Kim Il Sung, the Great Leader, and his son Kim Yong Il, the Beloved Leader, are bloody amateurs compared to his Excellency Saparmurat Niyazov, the great Turkmenbashi, President of Turkmenistan.

He's certainly giving the Kims a run for their money on the self-wank front.

Try the following web pages:

http://www.motherjones.com/commentary/columns/2000/09/rall2.html

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2004/05/02/wturk02.xml&sSheet=/portal/2004/05/02/ixportal.html

http://www.newtimes.ru/eng/detail.asp?art_id=677

And how about the following patriotic song?

Turkmenistan, my beloved motherland,
My beloved homeland!
You are always with me
In my thoughts and in my heart.
For the slightest evil against you
Let my hand be lost
For the slightest slander about you
Let my tongue be lost.
At the moment of my betrayal
To my motherland, to her sacred banner,
To my president let my breath stop.

Nice.

Finally - if I can be forgiven for a little cut and paste job - here's what wikipedia has to say about his personality cult:

Niyazov is an authoritarian leader and is known for his massive personality cult. Believing Turkmenistan to be a nation devoid of a national identity, he has attempted to rebuild the country in his own image. He renamed the town of Krasnovodsk, on the Caspian Sea, Turkmenbashi after himself, in addition to renaming several schools, airports and even a meteorite after himself and his immediate family. In 2002 he renamed bread from chorek, the traditional Turkmen word, to Gurbansoltan edzhe, his long dead mother's name. Niyazov's face appears on all Manat banknotes and large portraits of the president hang all over the country, especially on major public buildings and avenues. Statues of himself and his mother are scattered all over Turkmenistan, including one in the middle of the Kara Kum desert as well as a gold-plated statue atop Ashgabat's largest building, the Neutrality Arch, that rotates to face the sun. Niyazov has commissioned a massive palace in Ashgabat commemorating his rule. "I'm personally against seeing my pictures and statues in the streets - but it's what the people want", Niyazov said.

The education system indoctrinates young Turkmen to love Niyazov, with his works and speeches making up most of their textbooks' content. The primary text is a national epic written by Niyazov, the Ruhnama or Book of the Soul. This book, a mixture of revisionist history and moral guidelines, is intended as the "spiritual guidance of the nation" and the basis of the nation's arts and literature. With Soviet-era textbooks banned without being replaced by new publications, libraries are left with little more than Niyazov's works. In 2004, the dictator ordered the closure of all rural libraries on the grounds that he thought that village Turkmen do not read. In Niyazov's home village of Kipchak, a complex is being built to the memory of his mother, including a mosque (est. at $100 million) conceived as a symbol of the rebirth of the Turkmen people. The walls of this edifice will display precepts from the Ruhnama along with Qur'an suras.

Niyazov's other efforts to transform Turkmen culture include introducing a new Turkmen alphabet based on the Latin alphabet to replace Cyrillic, defining the stages of life, and renaming the days and months after national heroes and symbols (as they were presented in Ruhnama).

I like his radical reforms in the health sector:Reports from Turkmenistan say President Niyazov has ordered the closure of all the hospitals in the country except those in the capital, Ashgabat.

"Why do we need such hospitals?" he said. "If people are ill, they can come to Ashgabat."
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/4307583.stm

Wow that made my day!!!!

I heard that if government officials want to keep their jobs in Turkmenistan then they have to memorize verses from his book.

Weird, certainly. Arguably, no less weird than making a cult out of Moses, though.

Actually, that's an interesting train of thought. The parallels between Moses and KJI. Liberation from oppression by bloody murder of their oppressors, refusal to grant peace to the direct sufferers of the oppression, claim to directly represent the powers that be, restrictions on civil liberties in the name of social ideology/theology, aggression with other, unenlightened nations...

Ugh, there I go again. Forgive the alcohol-fuelled rantings. ^^;

Uh.....wow.

That's all I have to say about that.

Uh.....wow.

That's all I have to say about that.

Yes, wow

More priceless dew drops of wisdom from the Turkmenbashi, this time from Pravda's English-language website (http://english.pravda.ru/cis/2002/08/09/34140.html):

He decided to rename months and days of the week. January will now be called Turkmenbashi – in honor of the president, February will be called in honor of the Turkmen flag, March will become Navruz, April will be called in honor of the president’s mother – Gurbansoltan-eje, May – in honor of the Turkmen poet Makhtum Kuli, June will be called Oguz – in honor of one of Turkmen military leaders, July – Gorkut, in honor of the Turkmen epic hero Gorkut-Ata, August will change to Alp-Arslan – in honor of the ancient Turkmen commander, September will be renamed in honor of the president’s book – Rukhnama, October will be called Independence. However, the new names for November and December are not known for some reason, maybe Niyazov has not had time to make the new names up.

Days of the week will also be renamed. Monday will become the Major Day, Tuesday – Young Day, Wednesday – Favorable Day, Thursday – Blessed Day, Friday will remain Friday, Saturday will become the Spiritual Day and Sunday – Rest Day.

Wouldn’t it be good to have such a calendar at home? Celebrating New Year on January 1 is rather trivial, but Turkmenbashi 1 – this sounds so good, don’t you think?

A full explanatory list of the Turkmenbashi's renaming of the months (which includes November and December) may be found at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renaming_of_Turkmen_months_and_days_of_week

Oh, and I finally found a picture of the statue of the Turkmenbashi that rotates to always face the sun (this was harder than you might think). Go to:
http://www.sibelle.info/oped27.htm

Indeed, Stalin's cult of personality was much the same, he was further portrayed as 'The Hero and Saviour of the USSR' after WWII. The purges were much the same, they were designed to eliminate individual thinking and prevent prevent social arthritis, with this almost deified like state figure.