It starts early. In k-garden my favorite little book to look at was one that showed stores with shelves full of toys, streets full of nice cars, and manifestations/parades of military cars, trucks, mobile rocket launchers, tanks, and many other such things that the communists wanted us to think we had or were in the USSR and if we could just be more like the USSR we would have them too.
Reagan was bad and Lenin, Stalin, Krushchev, Brejnev, Gorbachov and their Bulgarian counterparts/asskissers were good. We had portraits of them in all of our classrooms and they were those with the eyes that looked down right at you no matter where you were in the room. We stood at attention at the beginning of every class and loudly and in one voice declared our allegance and well wishes to the National Republic of Bulgaria.
We were taught American's life consisted of exlpoitation at work, drugs, prostitution, and violent sports. They even gave us "statistics" of how many bones were being broken in an avarage game of american football.
They took us to bomb shelters from 4th grade on and even had a class on military weapons/bombs and how to protect ourselves when the evil Americans attacked. We watched videos of what happens to humans and human skin under a nuclear exposure, had to be able to put on a gas mask under a certain time limit.
We went on field trips to our border - deeply plowed fields with rowes of barbwire. We watched large german shepards chase down men in thick suits in order to know what would happen to us if we ever tried to run across.
AND
we only had access to BB guns at fair stands except for the time when they took all the boys to a range in 8th grade to see/record how well we shot to better direct us into the army in which we all had to suffer I mean serve.
My best friend in highschool, for two years, hid the fact that he was a secret church going Christian for fear of being found out and not allowed to go on to undergraduate and graduate education.
Yes, we had consentration/labor till you die camps too.
But when it was time to stand by the Party, we all went and marched against it with the opposition movement 'cause we (or the vast majority of us) wanted to get out of school and thought they could not punish us if we all went. The rest is history...
So, I am here now an American citizen to be, conservative, church going christian, several firearms in my closet, working hard and getting paid well, a house, two cars in the driveway, and when my son gets old enough he is getting a BB gun if he wants one and then a .22.
There is hope for North Korea! I hope the madness of Kim Jang Il comes to a final but peaceful end.
Nik