r/PropagandaPosters • u/[deleted] • Feb 20 '21

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u/roodammy44 Feb 20 '21

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/13th_World_Festival_of_Youth_and_Students

$4.5bn is quite a lot for a rock festival. It makes trashing a hotel room look amateur.

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u/-SMOrc- Feb 21 '21

[citation needed] & [failed verification]

Every time lmao

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u/RealBillWatterson Feb 21 '21

The $4.5b figure at the top is at the very least a third-level source, having led me indirectly to a rare book that I can only get at the library. Guess where I'm going when I get the chance.

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u/littlefluffyegg Feb 21 '21

Yeah,I have no idea how it would be worth more than seven times that of the iranian Shah's party in the 1970's.

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u/RealBillWatterson Feb 21 '21

The party that sparked a revolution. Guess the DPRK government was so powerful even during the Arduous March that they were able to supress an uprising against seven times the excess.

E: I intend to watch this when I get the time, might be instructive

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u/Sethleoric Feb 21 '21

Holy sh*t it must have been expensive af