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