Communists are really dumb

The link in the title will take you to an article in the World Tribune, "North Korean propaganda film backfires with hungry audiences." Just the latest example of how communists are really really dumb. It would be funny if it weren't so murderous.

North Korea made a movie about the repatriated Korean War spy Lee In-Mo who was released by the South after 42 years in prison. The dummies thought that a story of "faith in the socialist system, dedication for a cause (national unification), and four decades in prison and unflinching loyalty" was so good that everybody just had to see it. It backfired.

The reactions quoted in the article are priceless. The parts about Lee's hunger strikes must have been especially mysterious to his countrymen. "Refusing to eat was a form of resistance in the South? Boy, South Korea must be a paradise. That's what we said among ourselves." I'll bet a lot of viewers had to have the concept of "hunger strike" explained to them, and even then they just couldn't believe it.

That Lee even still lives was an indictment of the North Korean system. "Many North Korean defectors said their first reaction upon seeing the film was to ask how people could stay in prison for more than 10 years and remain alive? They say few people survive even three years in North Korean political prisons."

Wow, South Korea must truly be a paradise. You can survive more than three years in prison. Communists are so dumb.

Unless their plan all along was to incite millions of North Koreans to destroy the South's economy by moving over there and committing crimes so they can live in their prison paradise at the South's expense. That would at least be clever. But still dumb.