Connection across Tumen River is further sign of closer ties between the two countries since start of war in Ukraine
  • Awoo [she/her]@hexbear.netEnglish
    28·
    15 天前

    They’ve named it after Yakov Novichenko, a soviet military officer who saved Kim Il Sung from an assassination attempt in 1946.

        • cfgaussian@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
          13·
          15 天前

          Correct. Trucks were used mostly for military purposes back then, while freight transport was done mostly by train. There was simply no practical reason for such a road link in those days when a perfectly serviceable rail link existed.

    • Renin [none/use name]@hexbear.netEnglish
      12·
      15 天前

      Too much French influence preventing closer international cooperation. landlord-sus

      I’m speaking in jest here, but once we’re able to talk about complex historical topics in earnest it’ll make sense. It’s just that it’s kind of impossible to critique anything in depth in this environment without resulting in a yelling contest about who is the real revisionist. I do think the Soviets were too Eurocentric trying to teach those people Marxism (lol) instead of focusing on the 3rd world development.

    • Infamousblt [any]@hexbear.netMEnglish
      11·
      15 天前

      I assume it’s because after the fall, Russia made a hard Euro/American pivot. It has basically never worked out for them and lately they’re pivoting back to regional powers that actually will work with them like China, Iran, and now clearly DPRK.

      • InexplicableLunchFiend [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
        12·
        15 天前

        I mean before the fall. There was 43 years of time to build a single road bridge between 1948 and 1991. It seems incredibly odd that they did not given how much military cooperation and technology transfers occurred.

          • InexplicableLunchFiend [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
            11·
            15 天前

            I guess any people or trade traveling from most of Russia/USSR would arrive via train since basically nobody lives in the far East of Russia relative to the West. I get why there wasn’t a huge need for it, but it seems like you would want to have one or two road bridge connections with your military ally.