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I stayed at a North Korean summer camp. We polished statues and played a game where we destroyed the White House.
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this post was submitted on 03 Jul 2024
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This is the best summary I could come up with:
I tried to find more information, so I subscribed to a group called "Solidarity with North Korea" on VKontakte โ Russia's equivalent to Facebook.
In it, the Communist Party of the Russian Federation offered a chance to go to a North Korean children's summer camp for about $300.
I traveled alone from St. Petersburg, where I grew up, to Vladivostok, in the far east of Russia, where I joined a group of other children and some Communist Party officials.
Some kids in our group, as young as 12, bought North Korean rice vodka, brought it back to the camp, and got extremely drunk on the first couple of nights.
We also had to participate in concerts, singing propaganda songs in Korean about North Korea's Supreme Leaders, using lyric sheets translated into Russian.
One kid became so indoctrinated afterward that he joined the Communist Party in Russia and was always posting about North Korea.
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