Word: pyongyang
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first time, the free world could make an on-the-spot study of the results of years of Communist rule, and discover what must be done and what undone if liberation is to win the lasting approval of the liberated. Last week in the former Communist capital of Pyongyang, TIME Correspondent Dwight Martin looked for the lessons which U.N. liberators might learn from the pattern of Russian rule in North Korea. His report...
WITHIN hours after the first Russian troops had entered Pyongyang in September 1945, nearly every billboard and wall space in the city was plastered with effective, brightly colored posters extolling the military and civil virtues of the Soviet Union. In every section of the city (pop. 300,000), Russian-trained Korean agitators hammered home the same ideas from soapboxes and sound trucks. Within a few days Pyongyang's Peony Point Park had been named Molotov Park, the Taedong River had become the Lenin River, and Bell Road, the city's main thoroughfare, had been renamed Stalin Street...
...first the people of Pyongyang had little reason for resentment. Besides posters, sound trucks and propaganda squads, the Russians also brought with them carefully trained cadres of civilian political officers. These functionaries, most of them Russian-indoctrinated Koreans, had their offices set up only 48 hours after their arrival, and the offices really worked. There was little hunger in Pyongyang, because the Russians got rice into the city promptly and distributed it as fairly as possible. The Russians also insisted that their military government would last only so long as it took to set up an independent "people...
...Houses & Long Hair. La Sung Duk is 59 years old and an elder in Pyongyang's West Gate Presbyterian Church. Elder La met his first Russian in September 1945. The Russian was a cheerful, blond young soldier, and he asked Elder La's help in haggling for an apple with a fruit vendor. Elder La tried to ask the soldier the meaning of the green hatbands worn by some of the Russian officers, but he couldn't seem to make the soldier understand his question...
...chief of the green hatbands was Park II Woo, a tall man who wore his hair long in the fashion that Koreans call a "high collar cut." Kim II Sung and Park II Woo lived in downtown Pyongyang for a while, but soon they moved up into Ocean Village, the old Presbyterian missionary compound. Here their American-style red brick houses were next door to the residence of General Terenty Shtykov, who called himself the Soviet ambassador but was, in fact, Russian governor of North Korea. This move did not escape the attention of Pyongyang's 50,000 Christians...