A poyim for Kim, by Dom and Agatha
On Dom Mintoff’s birthday in August 1984, he and Agatha Barbara, who was president, wrote a ‘poyim’ to North Korean dictator Kim Il Sung.
No, I have not made this up.
No, it is not a joke.
The poem was broadcast last night on Bondi+, along with film footage of a North Korean dance troupe performing ‘Ma taghmlu xejn mal-perit Mintoff’ during his visit to that country.
I wonder if Yana Mintoff has ‘the facts on this’. But then I suppose she would approve.
TO THE GREATEST HERO AND PATRIOT OF KOREA H.E. KIM IL SUNG, GENERAL SECRETARY OF WPK CC AND PRESIDENT OF DPRK
To you who triumped over the ruling Japanese
And freed your country from
The imperialists powers united against the Korean people
To you who founded the immortal Juche idea
And from the ashes of the past
Built a strong new country
To you who achieved unity
And multiplied the wealth amongst the workers
Through your untiring effots
To you who with assistance and cooperation
Strengthened Malta’s will for freedom
So that in 1979 it rid its shores from the foreigner
To you the great leader of the East striving to unite your people on one Korean land
And who works for world peace
the Maltese people give honour
President Agatha Barbara
Prime Minister Dom Mintoff
Valletta, Malta
6 August, 1984
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It keeps getting worse, doesn’t it?
Count yourself lucky that you didn’t have to experience these things in real time. Some of us did.
Does my memory serve me right when I say that in return we used to get some “sulfat tal-ammonja” at cheap prices to, effectively, advance in Malta the Juche ideas?
defni, tkomplix tohrog velenu kontra s-salvatur!
You are bringing back bad memories. Pity the young generation (my sons included) cannot fathom the degree of misery and constant tension we lived in our teenage years.
Colin Camilleri
Today, 20:19
Funny! Various GonziPN apologists here want to raise the past about the chocolate Mars, Toothpastes, colour TVs etc! Well in the 80s the maltese were so rich they could afford to go abroad to buy chocolate. That is what I call good standard of living and luxury. Today! shelves are full or chocolate but only the chosen few can afford it!
Others try to “remind” us about TV bribes to get a colour TV.. May be they forgot the latest mega scandal circulating the VAT department! Well known businessmen who “happen” to be very close to the PN being found guilty of corrupt practises and defrauding the maltese citizens thousands of euros in due VAT! and with the help of insiders!!! get a life! If life is so good, call an election and leave the intelligent democratic people of this island decide once and for all!
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Unbelievable…
Spoken as one man to another.
Simply unbelievable. Thank you Lord for ridding us of that load of rubbish.
Don’t rush. A lot of that rubbish is still in Muscat’s skip.
Looks like 1984, Daphne.
But who the heck cares? I mean apart from the usual suspects, Angus Black, Baxter whattosit, Hurdie Purdie Wurlie, Troy….
Che noiosa che stai diventando!
[Daphne – Who the heck cares? People find this kind of thing fascinating.]
Who cares? I do. The double standards are incredible.
Claiming to rid us all of the foreigners – ‘mietna ghall-barrani’ and all that crap – and licking the North Korean arse and brown nosing Gaddafi. What a bunch of imbeciles.
I care, Mandangle. And I will ensure that my two Maltese/Canadian grandchildren care too.
mandango70 – I care because the rot lives on.
You care enough to post a comment here, Mandango70.
I care!
‘According to Juche, there is no god but kimilsung….’
‘…Juche’s sole export crop, opium, which annually earns $500 million to $1 billion….’
http://www.northkoreanchristians.com/juche-idea.html
What was it Joseph said about enhancing economic relations?
….”According to Juche, there is no god but Kim Ilsung, the country’s “Eternal President”, …”
So where are Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il today? Eternal my foot.
TO THE GREATEST HERO AND SAVIOUR OF THE MALTESE WORKER THE HON. PERIT DOMINIC MINTOFF, LEADER OF THE MALTA LABOUR PARTY AND PRIME MINISTER OF MALTA
To you who triumphed over the ruling British
And freed your country from
The imperialist powers united against the Maltese people
To you who founded the immortal Malta l-Ewwel u Qabel Kollox idea
And from the ashes of the past
Built a strong new country
To you who achieved hegemony
And multiplied the dependency amongst the workers
Through your untiring efforts
To you who with assistance and cooperation
Strengthened Libya’s and North Korea’s legitimacy
So that from the 1970s they could oppress their peoples
To you the great leader of the Mediterranean striving to unite your people on one Maltese land
And who works for world peace
the Maltese people give honour
To you who ruled over these people
And thought your rule would last forever
You are senile now, and finished
Citizen H.P. Baxxter
Valletta, Malta
18 April 2012
Well done, Baxxter.
We should campaign to have your poem,printed on all toilet rolls used by tourists.
As long as I get paid by your boss, silvio.
Pity you couldn’t include an emoticon in the shape of a birdie.
I will do my best to get you a small commission. After all it might prove to be a boost to our cultural tourism.
I expect that one of the conditions will be that only the two-ply product be used, as they will require a copy to verify the amount used.
Just get me the money. I’ll do the rest.
Burn, Billy Shakespeare, BURN!
An undercover video showing the extent of opium use.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zgNr5FIqILE
The images make evident the method employed to control the population, and what the so called self-reliance rests upon.
If this video is real, it’s an obscenity! And no one lifts a finger!
Because the country is off limits. No one is allowed in, except a for few representatives of the World Food Programme, and these are restricted to Pyongyang and its province.
Journalists aren’t allowed in except upon invitation. Most pose as ‘tourists’.
The famine was detected only via satellite photgraphy registering the drought’s effect on the morphology of the land.
Studies have led to the discovery of acres of poppy fields.
Human flesh being sold in the market
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rwakb8JeMww&feature=related
http://youtu.be/2RPUqopNniE
Thank you, Daphne, for accentuating what life was all about during the Malta Labour Party era.
I was much too young to realise what the stark reality was besides the Desserta (Chinese?), tinned tuna that stank like catfood, green toothpaste, and the jew b’xejn jew xejn war on the church schools.
How sweet.
Fortunately Kim Il Sung did not suffer from AIDS.
Otherwise both is-Salvatur and Agti would have contracted it through the oral route.
A couple of good comments on this one, but yours is absolutely the best.
No wonder the Americans hated us.
Considering North Koreas disposition to world peace, a few Japanese haikus would do the trick:
Who, of Violation of Human Rights,
are the Eternal Supreme Perpetrators?
The Kim Dynasty, the Dictators.
Condolences to a dictator,
Without colourful adjectives?
Joseph Muscat, leader of the progressives.
Shining achievements
Meetings with splendour,
Why was the Ambassador meeting kept secret?
http://www.maltatoday.com.mt/en/newsdetails/news/national/Pullicino-Orlando-Israelis-culturally-European-and-fit-for-membership-20120416#.T4wk0PjGzIU.facebook
How can Maltatoday allow such blatantly racist anti-Semitic remarks on its comments board? Isn’t that kind of thing against the law?
Nobel Prize quality…..
Mintoff and Agatha Barbara wrote the poyim?
It’s more likely the work of the other ‘one’, Toni Buttigieg.
Neither Dumink nor Agatina had the talent for writing poetry as proven by the absence of gutter phrases in the above.
The poetry is even more atrocious than the political sentiment.
Jaqaw Karl Stagno Navarra jaghmel xi part=time mal Al Arabija ukoll?
http://www.maltatoday.com.mt/en/newsdetails/news/world/Conflicting-reports-of-attempted-coup-in-Qatar-while-Emir-was-in-Malta-20120418
My God! This is really embarrassing. Is it possible this ‘Saviour of Malta’ stooped so low in ar*e-licking?
I see that North Korea gave Malta aid in the form of artificial manure. Now that’s what I call brotherly love.
Yana’s, at least, was natural and fresh.
Can you imagine the standards of Dom Mintoff in government – submitting the awful partisan song to be danced by a troupe at the gala dinner in honour of the Maltese prime minister on an official state visit.
I recall that dance was repeated ad nauseam on Xandir Malta in the run up to the election in 1981.
Yana, do us all a favour and go and hide under a stone.
Your family name is stomach-churning to a large majority of people who suffered so much. Yes, may that demented man rot in hell.
The fact that Joseph Muscat has been caught red-handed cavorting with these enemies of freedom and democracy should be more than enough of an eye-opener for those people seriously thinking of voting the Nationalists out.
Joseph is NOT safe to try, once in, it will be as hard as, if not harder, to get him out of Castile as it was to get Mintoff out.
Judging by the company he craves, and indeed seeks, I fear that not even the fact that we are now part of the European Union will be sufficient to stop him.
I would think long and hard before committing future generations to suffering like we did.
Vote Joseph Muscat. Get Dom Mintoff.
One day I might let Lou Bondi have a look at some of the poems written by past Maltese Nationalist politicians, praising Mussolini.
But only if he promises to have them read in one of his talk shows.
[Daphne – Silvio, for the 100th time and more: this is not the same Nationalist Party. At all. If it were, people like me would be running a mile, not voting for it. Labour and Kim Il Sung, on the other hand….As Lou said to Leo Brincat last night on television, ‘Why do you keep saying that the past is over and done with? You are a big part of that past and you are sitting before me right now, planning on being the future.’ Or words to that effect.]
The same words could fit perfectly on the other foot.
Geez, you really need things spelt out! Here goes:
Old NP = Glorify Mussolini
New NP = Denounce Mussolini (Doh! 70 years of hindsight)
Old LP = Glorify Mintoff
New LP = Glorify Mintoff (unsurprisingly, as many in ‘New LP’ were members in ‘Old LP’)
There… geddit now!?
It is not the same Nationalist Party, but it definitely is the same Labour Party … and one with even more bile brewing, seeing that they have been in opposition for so long.
@ Dust.
Just to remind you that a building is as strong as its foundation. We all know what those of the P.N were.
They should stop calling themselves Nationalists and at the same time renounce their past.
The present party is nothing but a socialst party.
All true Nationalists feel betrayed.
[Daphne – Which is, presumably, why they are migrating to Labour, the new right-wing, conservative and xenophobic party, which has long had an extreme tendency towards authoritarianism anyway.]
The context was that the whole world was praising Mussolini , the Pope, Churchill and Roosevelt amongst them. In 1929 the whole catholic world praised Mussolini for making peace with the pope through the Lateran treaties.
Now pray who was praising Kim Il Sung simultaneously with Mintoff?
‘North Korea is one of the Maltese Government’s closest friends. North Korea has given aid in various forms, mainly in artificial manure and agricultural equipment.’
All horse manure was taken up by that time…
X’ WAHX TA’ NIES