The North Korean Revolution Was Not a Sci-Fi Body Snatchers Operation

There was no revolutionary violence like that of say, the early days of the Soviet Union or in Vietnam. The Koreans certainly found an ally in the USSR, but for their own revolutionary project, they copied from the Soviet model on a selective basis. Bruce Cummings: By war's end, the Soviets had not only been a friend in the struggle in Manchuria, it, of course, had been the Red Army that liberated Korea militarily.