Tomas van Houtryve - Oslo Freedom Forum 2012

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Photojournalist Tomas Van Houtryve takes us behind the curtains of 21st century communism with seven years of photographs from China, Cuba, Laos, Moldova, Nepal, North Korea, and Vietnam.

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[DavidTheCatMedia]

China isn't really Communist anymore (still a totalitarian hellhole,) but North Korea definitely is.

[sev9899]

They're using Communism as a guise to make the totalitarianism not so obvious.

[CommieKid]

North Korea and China are Communist? I'd really like to know what this guy is smoking.

[ijiwarusensei]

I'm not sure why anyone would want to minimize or ignore the suffering and injustice communism has brought upon the world, yet as Van Houtryve notes, communism maintains a popularity among many of the intellectual elite. Some people's hatred of capitalism leads them to defend the indefensible. Communism consistently and inevitably leads to oppressive totalitarianism and is flawed at its core, yet those who point out this obvious truth are too often criticized, mocked, or ignored.

[arad7613]

I'd say he is exaggerating the "vast" spread of Communism. Most of these 1.47 billion people live in the same part of the world: China, North Korea, Vietnam & Laos. Nepal is also adjacent to China, and it's not yet certain it will become a dictatorship. In Moldova the communists are out of power, in Cuba they are on the way out.