Originally Posted By laphamsquarterly

laphamsquarterly:

2012: Kim Jong-un, dictator of Communist nation North Korea, throws a party featuring entertainment by Minnie Mouse, Tigger, and other classic Disney characters, leading some to wonder if the famously closed-off state is softening to Western ideas.
1959: Fiery Soviet premier Nikita Khrushchev forced to cancel visit to Disneyland; throws fit.

Like you wouldn’t be mad if you flew from Moscow to LA and couldn’t go to Disneyland. 

laphamsquarterly:

2012: Kim Jong-un, dictator of Communist nation North Korea, throws a party featuring entertainment by Minnie Mouse, Tigger, and other classic Disney characters, leading some to wonder if the famously closed-off state is softening to Western ideas.

1959: Fiery Soviet premier Nikita Khrushchev forced to cancel visit to Disneyland; throws fit.

Like you wouldn’t be mad if you flew from Moscow to LA and couldn’t go to Disneyland. 

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    Wasn’t Kim Jong Il really into a lot of aspects of Western culture too though? Like, he was obsessed with Elizabeth...
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    Like you wouldn’t be mad if you flew from Moscow to LA and couldn’t go to Disneyland.
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