dithering

I can't find it, but there's a gut-wrenching excerpt from a Red Army soldier's memoir about them trying to speak different languages to the prisoners upon discovering the camp. They weren't understanding the soldiers until one spoke Yiddish, and then the prisoners' eyes lit up because they realized they were safe.

Empty skyscraper in country with world's largest GDP: *crickets*

Ryugyong Hotel unfinished in a country embargoed to hell and back: COMMUNISM IS EVIL