24 January 2013

Leaving Brezhnev in the dust

Some of you may remember having fun with the penchant of good old Leonid Ilyich to award various Soviet medals to himself:


Of course, he was accepting the honors because it was the Soviet people's will that he do. Apparently the North Korean people's will is even stronger:


I wonder: do they carry medals on their undies and, possibly... nah... it couldn't be...

5 comments:

SnoopyTheGoon said...

He had enough medals to cover his back AND pants, he just wore them smarter - in the form of planks. I still remember his funeral when every medal was separately carried by an officer in the procession.

SnoopyTheGoon said...

Love the Nork photo. But our paper-pushing American generals have awarded themselves almost as many. Petraeus's "chest candy" rose up to and almost over his shoulder.

SnoopyTheGoon said...

I knew there must be something... thanks.

SnoopyTheGoon said...

I wonder who shines all that crap for the American generals? There are no orderlies anymore or are there in US army?

SnoopyTheGoon said...

Brezhnev's seem to be mostly represented by those ribbon thingies. That would be a good technological leap forward for North Korea--they wouldn't run out of coat-space then.