Stepping Behind The Iron Curtain Of The East
Filed Under Curtain Rods | Posted on November 12, 2008
The countries of Indochina love themselves some communism. Laos and Vietnam are openly People’s Republics, with red hammer-and-sickle flags lining the streets, while Cambodia fronts like a democracy. (Mao Zedong Boulevard and Josip Broz Tito Street in Phnom Penh hint at the country’s political ideology.)
In Laos and Vietnam, it seems every central square, statue and museum pays homage to the worker’s struggle in some form.
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