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"In the West, I get memed on so much I have lost all my credibility."
A thread 🧵 on Yeonmi Park, the famous-turned-infamous North Korean "defector"
A story of lies, greed and crime.
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I will never forgive Netflix for making up a female chess champion for their series when there were real ones to choose from, the most prominent being a Soviet champion. If you haven't noticed the resurgence of anti-communist narratives in fiction, you're not paying attention
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Liberals want to revive the Otto Warmbier story. Let's revive it, then. The DPRK is blameless in this story. The US gov? Not so much. A short thread 🧵
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We thought the "Uyghur genocide" allegations had died down, but apparently they're making a comeback. Okay then, let's get into it.
A thread 🧵 on regime change, terrorism, and manufacturing consent. And China's model of a response to it all 🇨🇳
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On this day 73 years ago, the invasion of Korea began when State Dept. aide John Foster Dulles gave orders to Rhee Syngman (dictator of "South Korea") to breach the 38th parallel and advance into the People's Republic.
A thread 🧵on brainwashing.
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Yeonmi Park first became famous in 2014, with a harrowing tale of daring escapes and hardships endured to flee the authoritarian dictatorship of North Korea in her quest for freedom.
The kicker? Most of her story was completely debunked. By other defectors.
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In the DPRK, bus stops do not promote any advertisements. They simply show pictures of beautiful scenery.
(More pictures inside thread 🧵)
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This is all documented by those who went through this process but didn't come out of it singing praises for capitalism, but this isn't the topic of this thread, it's only the necessary context to understand Yeonmi Park's stories.
Watch this later:
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We are not even going into the institution that is South Korea "deprogramming" DPRK "defectors". Essentially, if SK catches a citizen from the North, they force them to undergo classes exhalting the virtues of capitalism in what amounts to a prison facility...
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In South Korea, where most of them end up, there is an entire media industry living on their stories. There are TV shows, podcasts, Youtube channels where "defectors" drive clicks and revenue with their terrible tales of escaping torture camps.
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But first, we have to explain the context of "defectors" from North Korea (or its official name as we'll call it from now on, the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, or DPRK).
The "defectors" with their sad stories are motivated by greed.
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Here is a picture of such a show, Now on my way to meet you. People who have gone on this show said the producers encouraged them to make stuff up, and they could get removed from the lineup if they didn't produce strong enough reactions with their stories.
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...You can only leave this prison camp if the National Intelligence Service (their equivalent of the FBI) deems you ready to leave. Then they decide if they give you help or let you live on the streets of Seoul depending how well you sing the praises of South Korea and capitalism
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@MaIickDoucoure
I wouldn't trust that they didn't edit the contents of the manifesto if this is their foreword.
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In 2012, he wrote Escape from Camp 14, wich became a bestseller.
In 2015, he admitted his story was bullshit after his father called him out on television (Shin claimed his dad had been executed).
At the same time, the DPRK revealed Shin was wanted for raping a child.
Whoops.
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In 2021, Park appeared on the Joe Rogan Experience podcast, where she said, among other things, that people in the DPRK have to push trains to get them to their destination. She was widely ridiculed for this. Ignoring the absurd logistics, here's a train station in the DPRK:
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Other things she said:
- the word "love" does not exist in the DPRK (it does)
- the colour red is forbidden (it's literally on the flag)
- that they eat mud because there's no food (she was stifling laughter as she said it: )
Yeonmi the standup comedian.
Parents cannot give food to children and parents feed them mud. And when you eat mud, you die in 10 days because they cannot go to the bathroom. WTF?
Look at the people who believed her.
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Our video on the 1931-1933 Soviet Famine ("Hol*domor") was killed by the algorithm on TikTok, how well can it do on Twitter? You will probably learn a thing or two
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Today is Xi Jinping's 70th birthday.
Xi's tenure as General Secretary has seen the CPC lift 800 million people out of poverty, terrorism eradicated in Xinjiang, and leading a successful war on corruption in the PRC.
We extend our well wishes to Xi on this day.
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So what we have is "defectors" (people who irregularly left the DPRK, motivated by greed) finding themselves without a penny, without any prospects or friends, with only one ressource they can trade: stories of the evil North Korean regime.
And that's how we get to Yeonmi Park.
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How do we get to this stage? Because of money. People have heard it all about North Korea: it's an evil dictatorship, you only get a good life if you're friends with the party, there's no food...
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"Defectors" from the DPRK are motivated by greed or simply to escape their crimes.
What's less known is that there are many people who flee from South Korea to enter the DPRK too, but these are almost never talked about. But that's a story for another thread.
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In 2014, the Diplomat went through her story back then (which has changed a lot in recent years), to keep this thread readable we encourage you to read their coverage directly:
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Much like what the producers did on the set of Now on my way to meet you, "defectors" need to come up with more atrocity propaganda stories if they want to keep making money doing tour shows to talk about their "life" in the DPRK. Otherwise, it gets stale.
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Basically, she's become indistinguishable from neocons to capitalise on her only ressource: peddling stories from North Korea. A grifter, much like most of the right.
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But Yeonmi Park's story begins in 2014, not in 2022. Even back then, her recollection of events was questioned even by other defectors.
For example, she said that in 2002, she saw her friend's mother being publicly executed in a stadium in Hyesan.
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Parenti suffers from dementia and can't defend himself from this sort of characterization anymore.
Unable to create their own movement, patsocs sap the life out of unrelated figures to whom they can attach themselves. It's pretty ghoulish to use an ill man for their purposes.
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Except that, according to other "defectors", executions took place in the city outskirts, and none were held after 2000.
Now comes the question: if Yeonmi Park is untrustworthy about this, are other "defectors" untrustworthy too?
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A kid unfortunately fell ill while travelling abroad, received top medical care, was eventually repatriated (health permitting), died while in his home country, and the US gov paid the parents to shut up and say the DPRK tortured their son.
That's the story of Otto Warmbier.
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In that time, she's slammed "woke" ideology, said she was attacked by "three Black women" in NYC (and that white passerbys called her racist when she wanted to call the police), and criticised Black athlete Gwen Berry for turning away when the anthem was played at the Olympics.
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She reemerged against all odds post-covid as a hardline conservative, after she was picked up by the Atlas Network, a libertarian lobby group.
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We hoped you enjoy this (very long) expose, learn more on ProleWiki !
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Park led a quiet life in the USA after her appearance in the One Young World Summit in Dublin. It seems her stories were too egregious to be believed even back then, and she was mostly forgotten -- because she was not marketable.
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We're glad to see that she's being called out by literally everyone in the world after her appearance on Joe Rogan, it finally makes people realise that Park is a fraud.
But wait, we mentioned crime in the first tweet. Well, read on!
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@aginnt
Wow China sounds so bleak. Anyway my car was repoed because I was homeless for a whole and unable to pay my food debt, now I can't get to work and I lost my job.
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We're starting to see the Cyberpunk communist figures AI-art going around. Here they are in HD. They were prompted by our founder and you can find more in the second tweet below.
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You might remember this man: Shin Dong-Hyuk. (CW: SA in next tweet)
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There's lots of things we had to leave out to keep this thread short, but if you learned something, please leave a like! We will certainly go into the interference of the US gov in Korea (both North and South) in another thread.
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His doctors in the US did not find any evidence of torture or mistreatment (such as healed fractures). However, Otto's parents, who had been in contact with the Obama (then Trump) administration suddenly did not want any more analyses, and soon decided to remove his feeding tube.
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Barack Obama pioneered double-tapping. This practice is when a military drone strikes an area, and then waits around for first responders to show up, striking the area again.
Targetting and attacking medical personnel is a war crime.
Obama is a war criminal.
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Possibly, because the physicians that examined Warmbier noted that he did not present bedsores, a condition common with comatose or bed-ridden patients: this means that his Korean physicians took care to reposition his body every few hours and massage his muscles.
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We live in a time where fiction blends in with "recountings", i.e. what we recall. What matters is not the truth, but how it makes you feel. This is why HBO got away with a completely fictional telling of the Chernobyl incident that many people took as the real thing.
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Yet, this still is from a video CNN made for their own website, with footage from the trial. Warmbier is clearly visible, yet this frame was not deemed important enough to make articles on in western media. (As for the grainy quality, that's what happens when you film a monitor)
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His parents also refused an autopsy after his death, and the coroner could only perform a quick non-invasive scan, to which he said he had found no obvious signs of torture.
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BREAKING NEWS: Juan Guaidó has immediately declared himself the new CEO of Twitter, with the United States and Israel recognizing him
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Why would the parents suddenly refuse to know what happened to their son, and let him die with this question still hanging? Well, for that we have to turn to the US Congress.
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If you were a kid in the 80s, the bad guys on TV were Russians. Then in the 90s, after the USSR and with the first invasion of Iraq, bad guys were loosely Arabic. Now they are communists. Soon I imagine they will outright be Chinese.
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Shortly after his sentence, Warmbier fell ill and eventually became comatose. He was then brought back to the US in 2017, where he died shortly after. An indictment of the quality of medical care in the US?
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We're proud to announce our all new library, available now!
We're hoping to break away from the curse of 90s web design that befalls most communist sites.
What do you think? (Link in reply)
(+ short thread 🧵 for the nerds among us)
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In 2018, Warmbier's parents sued the government of the DPRK. This normally is not allowed, as the trial took place Washington D.C, but the US Congress had set up a fund which can pay out successful plaintiffs. And suddenly, the story takes a much different turn:
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Warmbier also received IRMs in the DPRK showing brain damage. This was a great argument for the US to say that Warmbier had been tortured into this state. Except...
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The evidence presented at the trial showed video evidence of Warmbier stealing the poster. You probably know this photo very well, which was often presented in the western media as a set-up, because you can't see Otto's face.
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The charge brought against Warmbier was that he had stolen posters from a closed-off area in the hotel he was staying at, the Yanggakdo International Hotel. In other words, he was trespassing.
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Warmbier was part of a tour group that visited the DPRK in 2015. Shortly before his departure from the country, he was held from leaving by security officials. A trial opened soon after.
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When that show came out, I had many friends tell me I should watch it so I could understand Chernobyl. A quick look online debunked basically every little thing the show promoted. They "remember" Chernobyl being a certain way and then fiction reinforces this memory.
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If you are an absolute beginner in marxism, if you're interested but don't know where to start, or if you find the reading daunting, we now have a reading list (6 books) to start you from 0 in a month tops. Link in reply 👇
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It's nothing new, we know the US Military for example has long had its fingers in Hollywood to make sure they're represented in a positive light. But we are now seeing that weapon of Hollywood presented against communism due to US-China relations being what they are.
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If you want to learn about Korea-USA relations, read this thread:
First, a primer on the separation of Korea. For all of history, Korea was one. Japan, who occupied and later annexed Korea in 1910, was beaten back from the peninsula by the Red Army in August 1945. It's important to understand that to this day, Koreans form one nation.
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@somebtsfan
@QudsNen
@Africa4Pal
Good news then! It never happened. Blinken lied to you to justify war against China in the future and sanction them as much as they could.
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@RealCalebMaupin
I don't think communists outside the USA care much for Larouchite cults bro
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Read Mao he laid it all out
Japan after 1942 was unstoppable, how did they fumble so hard
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@RnaudBertrand
Machine-translating it to English, it seems as though the clinic has walked back on its original position. Not sure how sincere they are in doing so, but it's something.
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Xi worked in the countryside as a teen, enduring difficult conditions (so much so that he once tried to flee). Eventually, he realised that he had the choice to be there: the people didn't.
In the other picture: Hillary Clinton, a trust fund kid, upon seeing the average kitchen
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'The CIA's Shining Path' is now released! You can read the book yourself in the link below, and keep reading to learn more about our translation in a short 🧵
Please share!! It is a very important work, made available in English for the first time ever!
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@zei_squirrel
Fun fact: the foundation was started by three people each in various neo-nazi organisations.
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@Palestine616
We have a Palestine reading list exactly because of this problem (with all books available freely on the encyclopedia):
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Seeing a lot of tweets on Cuba's "gay marriage" law. But it's not that specifically; the new law essentially abolishes the nuclear family and recognizes that families can take various shapes and forms. This goes _beyond_ gay marriage! The first of its kind in the world.
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@YeeEhren
It's possible they themselves didn't even know what the autopsy would find. It's more likely the US government urged them not to push an autopsy so that they could get the congress fund money (easier to win the "case"). Thus it keeps the torture narrative alive.
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@LassPeaches
@LeninBol
“Xi Jinping is one of the strongest and most capable revolutionary leaders I have met in my life” —Fidel Castro
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It's important to understand Xinjiang rests on the historic Silk Road and connected China's to the rest of the world by land; it's a region that saw a lot of people moving through it.
Uyghurs are one of 56 recognized and protected ethnicities in China, a plurinational country.
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Eddie Liger from Midwestern Marx doesn't like what our page on him says and he made no less than 3 tweets about it.
He seemed to like us when he was talking to our patsoc ex-admin though.
We'll make our response in a thread 🧵as we don't pay for Twitter. Please excuse us.
Lol
@prolewiki
what “open fascists” do I hang out with?
Last time I checked I don’t have any friends who are fascists, but I guess you would know better than me.
Wasn’t the point of this website to have a version of Wikipedia that DOESN’T lie about socialists & anti
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It's incredible that one single human being can just one day decide to buy one of the world's biggest and most used platform and proceed use it as his personal playground with no regards for its users.
I'm starting to think this capitalism thing isn't so great after all
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First, as always, you need some historical context. Xinjiang, called the Western Regions in Ancient times, were in close contact with the central regions of China since the pre-Qin period (2100-221 BC).
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If that sounds awfully familiar, that's because this is exactly what groups are saying today, like the World Uyghur Congress, the NED's regime change apparatus in Xinjiang.
If you don't know about the WUC, please read this thread, it's eye-opening:
Liberals and the media quickly moved on from Xinjiang to Ukraine. But one part of the Xinjiang "saga" that wasn't mentioned much is the World Uyghur Congress: a thread 🧵 on terrorism, their origins, and their separatist movement.
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@yeongno3
The video starts just a bit late and in the incorrect place, implying the North side crossed the border first. Military aide John Foster Dulles was the one who gave orders to Rhee to begin an incursion past the 38th parallel, starting the war.
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In 60 BC, the government of the Western Han Dynasty established the Western Regions Frontier Command in Xinjiang, officially making Xinjiang a part of Chinese territory as part of a deal for helping the Ouigour people against their foes in the province.
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Combate is a patsoc. This is not the first time Pamphlets is now boosting them, even indirectly.
When the ball drops, don't say we didn't warn you. Hoping these are just mistakes but looking increasingly unlikely.
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The birth and spread of groups such as Al-Qaeda and ISIS (all created by the US btw) coincides with the shift from rioting to terrorist acts in Xinjiang.
Today, these groups generally operate under the East Turkestan Party name or also East Turkestan Islamist Movement (ETIM).
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expect a CIA coup attempt
Uganda has discovered 31 million tonnes of gold deposits worth $12.8 trillion according to the Government.
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The Uyghur ethnic group came about from a long process of migration and ethnic integration (they f*cked). While their language is Turkic in origin, they are not descendants of the Turks -- a common argument to distance them from their Chinese nationality.
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Prolewiki forcibly removed administrator jucheguevara from his functions. Please read our statement below as well as attached evidence. Prolewiki is otherwise carrying on as normal.
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If there was a genocide, where are the refugees like we saw from Syria and now Ukraine? Why do Uyghurs, when interviewed by vloggers, all report that the province is much safer and richer now? Why are these Uyghurs telling Mike Pompeo to stop lying?
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At the turn of the 20th century, separatist and extremist groups in China started spreading the word that Uyghurs were the sole "masters" of Xinjiang. They subscribed to "Pan-Turkism", an ahistorical ideology promoted, today, by fascists. Like we said, Uyghurs are not Turkic.
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So now that we understand the history of Xinjiang, let's look more closely at the accusations: alledgedly, China is stamping out the Uyghurs' religious expression of Islam in Xinjiang because the communist Chinese are godless atheists. (Pic: Id Kah mosque, Xinjiang)
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The CPC did this by providing the most destitute populations with free housing (creating entire, more accessible, cities for them), job training, and building infrastructure. Now these populations can support themselves and participate in the economy: all carefully planned.
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While the pro-regime change crowd goes on about Uyghurs being the "rightful owners" of the Xinjiang province, historically the Ouigour people (the ancestors to the Uyghur group) shared the region with many other groups, among which the Kazak, Mongolian, Hui, Kirgiz. Map from 2018
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@depofdutchie
He was sentenced for subversion and collusion with a foreign government against the DPRK, additionnally trespassing into an area he was not allowed in, not for stealing. Nobody gets 15 years in the DPRK for taking down a poster.
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Total visits: 94,000+
And this is only for the English instance!
ProleWiki is an international encyclopedia.
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The history of religion in Xinjiang shows an expected wide array of different dominating beliefs at different times: again, the province sat right in the middle of the Silk Road. At times, Buddhism, Zoroastrianism, Taoism, Nestorianism dominated, up to Islam today.
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