DPRK – the most just and most advanced state in today's world Lukáš Vrobel
The
65th anniversary of the victory of the Korean people in the Fatherland
Liberation War leads me to think about the causes of constant victories
in building and defending Korean socialism under the most difficult
conditions, while in many other socialist countries, including my native
Czechoslovakia, socialism was defeated and capitalism restored,
although the conditions for building socialism were much more favorable.
The
working people of Czechoslovakia won the bourgeoisie and reaction in
February 1948, in the same year that the Democratic People's Republic of
Korea was founded. Under the excellent leadership of the Communist
Party of Czechoslovakia, led by the first working-class president
comrade Klement Gottwald, our country achieved great economic
development and improvement in the standard of living, nationalization
of the means of production and the collectivization of agriculture.
Thanks to the fact that Czechoslovakia was an advanced industrialized
country and was relatively little damaged by the World War II, it was
able to help the people of Korea in the difficult years of the Korean
War and in post-war reconstruction. Czechoslovakia actively both morally
and materially supported the just struggle of the Korean people against
American imperialism.
After
the war, new industrial plants and power stations were built or renewed
in the presence of hundreds of Czechoslovak specialists. Already during
the war and after war, the Czechoslovak paramedics worked in the DPRK.
Thousands of orphans and students were taught in Czechoslovakia at
various levels of schools, which helped to expand the number of
specialists, especially technical ones.
From
1953 until the collapse of the Soviet bloc, the Czechoslovak military
delegation worked in Korea as a member of the Supervisory Commission of
neutral states (together with Poland, Sweden and Switzerland). Every
year in the month of solidarity with the struggle of the Korean people
for the departure of the US troops and the peaceful reunification of the
motherland, numerous meetings were held in Czechoslovakia to support
the just demands of the Korean people.
Czechoslovakia
has provided valuable documentation and procedures, particularly in the
field of engineering production. It trained specialists in Czechoslovak
races and institutes. There was also extensive cultural exchange. At
the Philosophical faculty of the Charles University, the Center of
Korean Studies was established and an extensive library of Korean
literature was founded in the Oriental Institute of the Czechoslovak
Academy of Sciences. Since 1972, mass tourist tours from Czechoslovakia
to DPRK were organized.
I
am proud of the great revolutionary tradition of the progressive
movement in Czechoslovakia and its share in the struggle for the victory
of the world socialist revolution. However, I cannot be proud of the
growing opportunism and revisionism in our country, especially from the
1960s, which led to surrender to the bourgeois counter-revolution and
the renewal of capitalism between 1989 and 1990. Class education was
neglected, many revolutionary traditions and revolutionary leaders of
the past trampled. Individualism, careerism and selfishness prevailed in
society. In the economy, market components have grown.
After
the collapse of socialism, the relations between Czechoslovakia and the
successor states, Czech and Slovak Republic, and the DPRK were
seriously disturbed. But the Democratic People's Republic of Korea still
has many supporters, and progressive people admire it for defending the
red banner of socialism and its national independence even in the
toughest time of an arduous march, betrayed by former allies and relying
only on itself.
In
all the states following the Soviet revisionist line, capitalism was
later restored. The youth were not brought up in collectivism but
individualism and consumption. For the DPRK, it was a great joy to
consistently apply the Juche idea and Songun politics and not succumb to
pressure from abroad. Under the wise leadership of the Workers' Party
of Korea led by the Great Leader Comrade Kim Il Sung and the Great Leader Comrade Kim Jong Il ,
the younger generation was brought up to the decisive support of the
socialist revolution. Capitalism was not restored, nor was society
dominated by corrupted bourgeois culture and consumerism, as in some
contemporary formally socialist states.
People
live happily in DPRK in spite of tough and utterly unfair economic
sanctions and threats from abroad. They have social security and real
human rights that are inaccessible to most people in most countries.
From the following, we can clearly see what national tragedy will happen when surrendering to imperialism:
Today
there are 281 thousand of unemployed in the Czech Republic and 175
thousand in the Slovak Republic. About 69 thousand of homeless people in
the Czech Republic and 15 thousand in Slovakia.
The
sharp rise in housing prices is aggravating the availability of own
housing. The Czechs therefore need more than six times the annual
average net household income to acquire an average apartment. Providing
housing for people, who don’t have their homes from the socialist era,
is very difficult.
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thousands of people in the Czech Republic are „in execution“, this
means that most of their income is confiscated for the payment of debts.
About 400 thousand of Czechs and about 0,5 million of Slovaks work
abroad due to higher wages. The average wage in neighboring Germany is
double that in the Czech Republic, but prices are similar.
Many
industrial enterprises and agricultural cooperatives were destroyed
after the fall of socialism. Many workers have to travel far to work
opportunities. A large part of the enterprises is foreign owned and the
income is paid abroad. The new bourgeoisie was created by the robbery of
national property after 1989. The second richest citizen is the prime
minister.
The
country was flooded with a decadent Western culture full of violence,
pornography, mysticism, and the invocation of death. Many young people
are damaged by tattoos, piercings, and unsightly hairstyles and fashion.
People have been brought up in the spirit of individualism, selfishness
and anti-communism since childhood. Most of them are brainwashed by
bourgeois propaganda and have no class consciousness.
Approximately
640 thousand Czechs drink high-risk alcohol and may have a problem with
addiction. Problem users of pervitin, heroin and other drugs are nearly
50 thousand. More than 100 people per year die due to drug overdoses.
Almost
half of the marriage ends with divorce. People in capitalism are not
able to lead valuable partnerships as a result of selfishness and
careerism. Birth rates are low (1,5 child per woman) and women have
children at a later age, which is detrimental to their health. Four
Czechs commit suicide a day. Nearly 200 people a year are murdered or
attempted murder. Hundreds of women are raped.
Critics
of „human rights in the DPRK“ should look at the state of human rights
in their own countries. The DPRK's socialist society is the most just
and most advanced in today's world, and I firmly believe that under the
brilliant leadership of the Respected Supreme Leader Comrade Kim Jong Un it will continue to achieve constant successes and will not be weakened by any intrigues of imperialists and class enemies.
Lukáš Vrobel,
first vice-chairman of the Paektusan Czech-Korean Friendship Association,
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