There's actually a pretty good argument that North Korea is a lot closer [1] to early-20th-century fascism than to Communism. Soviet ideology tended not to glo

There's actually a pretty good argument that North Korea is a lot closer [1] to early-20th-century fascism than to Communism. Soviet ideology tended not to glorify the nation as such but rather a class; tended to glorify underdogs as long as they were fighting capitalists; and tended to be very ashamed of lies and very insistent on the internal consistency and intellectual credibility of its propaganda. "Promise of vengeance", I agree, is pretty generically associated with any revolutionary movement. [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jy1iudsIKa8; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jy1iudsIKa8; the book is quite good.