“Only North Korea could have done it better.”
Abe Greenwald finds proof of the origins of China’s cool, creepy, inhuman Opening Ceremony aesthetic. So they hired Albert Speer’s son to do the architecture (just a coincidence, I’m sure), and aspired to Kim Il-Sung’s parade drill. It’s amazing their mascots weren’t Himmler, Beria, Yezhov*, Che, and Kang Kek Iew.
*He’s so small, Japanese girls would love him!
Don’t ask impertinent questions like that jackass Adept Lu.