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North Koreans built this statue.

Mansudae Overseas Projects is a construction company based in Jongphyong-dong, Phyongchon District, Pyongyang, North Korea. It is the international commercial division of the Mansudae Art Studio. As of August 2011, it had earned an estimated US$160 million overseas building monuments and memorials. As of 2015, Mansudae projects have been built in 17 countries: Angola, Algeria, Benin, Botswana, Cambodia, Chad, Democratic Republic of Congo, Egypt, Equatorial Guinea, Ethiopia, Germany, Malaysia, Mali, Mozambique, Namibia, Senegal, Togo and Zimbabwe.

The company uses North Korean artists, engineers, and construction workers rather than those of the local artists and workers. Sculptures, monuments, and buildings are in the style of North Korean socialist realism.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

what a cool fucking statue :kim-salute:

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Libs will say that everything about Mansudae is a bad thing.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Dudes (literally) rock. :kelly:

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

I think about it regularly 🫡

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

We could have had statues of giant gorgeous people as far as the eye can see, but instead we got funko pops. That's cool too I guess

:trans-sad: