Arius
@ariusderr
We published a good explanation of this back in 2019. The TLDR is that North Korea emulated Stalinist leader worship by building statues of founder Kim Il Sung. By the 1970s there were entire doctrines and procedures about building Kim statues everywhere, and it evolved into a symbolic method of distinguishing Kim from other communist world leaders (Stalin, Map, Lenin etc). https://www.nknews.org/2019/11/bow-to-the-leader-a-history-of-north-koreas-iconic-and-ubiquitous-kim-statues/
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Arius
@ariusderr
Mao*
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Daisy✨
@dazedaisy
Ohh, that’s interesting Glad I know now
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nomygod
@nomygod.eth
i love statues we should bring back art deco
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