Egypt - Army seizes power.

[Rahul]

The 3rd picture shows Korean shopping district, probably in south Korea, but could just as well be in Korea town in Los Angeles.

Yeah, it's a picture of South Korea, but it could also be in the capitalist country of the US. Show me a comparable picture in North Korea.

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If one wishes want to sterotype most people in communist countries as inevitably deprived and miserable, then one needs to explain why the sort of scene depicted in 3rd and 4th picture, presumable being used to represent abundance and happiness, is most certainly easy to find in china.

Because China has embraced private industry. Moving away from hardcore communism. Freaking duh.

Yet, what is communist and what is not, usually depends not on state propaganda or politics, but on facts that deal with the economic organization of society. In a truly communist state there are no private owners, the land is collectivized, and the state, which is supposedly an expression of collective will, regulates economic activity channelling capitals and investments were they are supposedly most needed.

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In 1999, in "communist" China, more than 20 million people were employed by private enterprises and the contribution of private sector to the industrial output was 73.5%. (2) The state run newspaper "China Daily" reported last summer (2010) that private sector provides 90% of the new jobs in China and quoted Vice Minister Zhong Youping who said that the country had 7.55 million private companies at the end of March 2010, up almost 14 percent year-on-year, with total registered capital exceeding 15 trillion yuan ($2.2 trillion), up 26.9 percent.