A lesson learnt in China.

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/03/24/international/asia/24orphans.html?pagewanted=print&position=

... each person interviewed said his or her illusions about North Korea had been shattered.... said one person who had been in China only a few weeks. "They spend all their time celebrating the leaders. There is one thing I have understood in China, and that is, as long as there is no freedom, we will never get richer."