I wonder if "5-3-11" is a date? Could be May 3, 1911; March 5, 1911; March 11, 2005...don't know what any of those could be. I wonder if it had anything to do with the North? The Russians are the ones who made the North communist in the first place. They took away a lot of North Koreans to train them before the war, then sent them back as veteran fighters. (That's why the North almost won.)I thought that the date was something else(don't remember now).Bo
What we are seeing here is a propaganda piece created either by the North Korean government or the Soviet Union for internal consumption. By the looks of it,it appears to have been made at the height of Stalinism in the 50s. I could be wrong--it could have been made after Stalin's death in the 60s.
This is a mass rally;these typically took place celebrating the end of WWII (The great Patriotic War the Russians call it), May Day, or the "founding" of the Communist government in the particular host country.
Again, I could be incorrect, but it appears that the footage was shot in North Korea. The Communist "music" as the soundtrack, complete with Russian lyrics printed in Cyrillic tells me that this was created for television, or if before television, to be shown in the movie theaters, much like the West's "Movie-Tone" news reels, shown to movie goers during WWII.
Russians and those of the captive nations of the Eastern Bloc did not need the subtitles as Russian was shoved down their throats after the communist coups in those countries was completed. Russian was a compulsory language in school and a must for any up and coming young weasel fresh from the gymnasium and/or university. I think that the subtitles were placed on the copies of this footage destined to the "other" Communist lands--North Korea, China, Cuba, Vietnam, Libya, etc. The Commies there needed practise with their Russian and the words were there to help them.
The lyrics are typical of all the drek that was shoveled into people's brains--ever on-ward and upward to socialist victory, defeating the enemy, the PEOPLE will not be defeated, blah, blah, blah. . .
My husband jumped up from his chair the first time he heard the ad--for him and millions of others it's a hated sound--like for Jews to hear Nazi military songs.
I think that this is an ad for a documentary about Communism but since I don't know Korean I can't be sure. The dates you gave hold no significance to the Communist movement and in fact pre-date it.
It brought back memories of the hated May Day parades which looked exactly like that. Scores of people in the parade--military, weaponry,materiel, all being paraded past some stand where some mummified creature stood in review.
Did you ever wonder why the crowds watching the parade seem so feverishly animated? Everyone is given the day off to attend these things (except those in the gulags,doing forced labor) and if you didn't show up you could end up in the gulag yourself. The masses sing, wave, shout, and cry as on cue because they knew that the secret police,party apparatchiks, informers, and other assorted scum were milling in the crowd--looking, listening, and waiting to catch the malingerer. With the Black Maria sedans around every corner, one could be arrested in the crowd and taken away quickly and efficiently.
Refusing to attend the May Day "celebration" was a crime of hooliganism at best and anti-socialist agitation at worst.
Now that I've ranted---the purpose of making these films was to aid in the "radicalization" of the indigenous population and to act as a teaching tool to those nations of Central and Eastern Europe who were already under the Commie boot. Whenever there were shortages in anything, anywhere, the standard excuse was that the "riches" of the nation were going to "build socialism" in (fill in the blank with the country du jour) Viet Nam, North Korea, China, Cuba, Libya, etc. etc. It was a way of saying, Hey, Comrade, Look! Although you can't buy shoes (or bread for that matter)your sacrifice isn't in vain!! You are helping these brothers build Communism!
And Amnesty Intl. comparing Abu Grab to the Gulag! As one with family members who survived the gulag, and some who did not--it was the most outrageous thing to be said in ages. If the word "Holocaust" had been substituted for "Gulag" the aftershocks would still be circling the globe. 27 MILLION dead and still--no justice!! Where are our "Nuremberg Trials"??? NOT ONE murderer has been brought to justice!! Not ONE!
Didn't mean to get off topic. . .