You are here: Homepage Tag dictatorship Articles Photo: Ole Witt for KULTURAUSTAUSCH Personal history | North Korea Fleeing North Korea Choi Song Hui served as a loyal soldier in North Korea’s army, but then fled across the border river. She now lives in Seoul where she continues to fight for human rights in her home country By Choi Song Hui 11/04/2024 The KMT ruled Taiwan with an iron fist from 1948 and declared martial law on the island to persecute and imprison alleged spies and communists. Among the victims was Xu Daidé, who was sentenced to ten years in prison for participating in a book club when he was only twenty years old. After his release, only a few of his friends were willing to friends were willing to keep in touch with him. Tu Guimei (pictured above) only met and married him after his imprisonment. After the KMT's autocracy ended in 1987 with the the end of martial law, people like Xu Daidé were financially compensated. However, the perpetrators were never brought to justice. This is another reason why the social stigmatisation of the victims continues. The KMT is still one of the two major popular parties in Taiwan. Photo: H. C. Kwok History | Taiwan In the shadow of the dictator Under the regime of dictator Chiang Kai-Shek, tens of thousands of people were arrested and killed in Taiwan between 1948 and 1987. However, the country has never come to terms with the “White Terror”. Photographer H. C. Kwok wants to change that with his pictures by giving the victims a voice. By Billy HC Kwok 06/01/2023 Illustration: Razvan Cornici Religion | Romania Faith is no longer fashionable Church congregation numbers in Romania beat those of all other European countries. And the popularity of the Romanian Orthodox Church is second to none. But since the advent of the pandemic, its image has started to show cracks. By Lavinia Braniște 07/01/2021 Moscow in the 1930s Photo: Getty Images Historical fiction | Soviet Union The Soviet lockdown At the end of the 1930s, a plague epidemic was averted in Russia. Lyudmila Ulitskaya's novel about the era reads as a parable of our time. By Michail Schischkin 04/01/2021
Photo: Ole Witt for KULTURAUSTAUSCH Personal history | North Korea Fleeing North Korea Choi Song Hui served as a loyal soldier in North Korea’s army, but then fled across the border river. She now lives in Seoul where she continues to fight for human rights in her home country By Choi Song Hui 11/04/2024
The KMT ruled Taiwan with an iron fist from 1948 and declared martial law on the island to persecute and imprison alleged spies and communists. Among the victims was Xu Daidé, who was sentenced to ten years in prison for participating in a book club when he was only twenty years old. After his release, only a few of his friends were willing to friends were willing to keep in touch with him. Tu Guimei (pictured above) only met and married him after his imprisonment. After the KMT's autocracy ended in 1987 with the the end of martial law, people like Xu Daidé were financially compensated. However, the perpetrators were never brought to justice. This is another reason why the social stigmatisation of the victims continues. The KMT is still one of the two major popular parties in Taiwan. Photo: H. C. Kwok History | Taiwan In the shadow of the dictator Under the regime of dictator Chiang Kai-Shek, tens of thousands of people were arrested and killed in Taiwan between 1948 and 1987. However, the country has never come to terms with the “White Terror”. Photographer H. C. Kwok wants to change that with his pictures by giving the victims a voice. By Billy HC Kwok 06/01/2023
Illustration: Razvan Cornici Religion | Romania Faith is no longer fashionable Church congregation numbers in Romania beat those of all other European countries. And the popularity of the Romanian Orthodox Church is second to none. But since the advent of the pandemic, its image has started to show cracks. By Lavinia Braniște 07/01/2021
Moscow in the 1930s Photo: Getty Images Historical fiction | Soviet Union The Soviet lockdown At the end of the 1930s, a plague epidemic was averted in Russia. Lyudmila Ulitskaya's novel about the era reads as a parable of our time. By Michail Schischkin 04/01/2021
