Kim Il-sung Mural

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This massive mural depicts the hypothetical scene of the joyful masses celebrating Kim Il-sung's arrival in Pyongyang, even though the event wasn't quite like this – it was actually the Soviet forces that liberated Pyongyang from the Japanese in 1945.

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