The Eyes of the Pineapple

Seen on this blog before, but you can download the full-size image here. A cover of Swedish magazine Folket i Bild/Kulturfront, this particular issue including coverage of an unofficial friendship delegation that went to Democratic Kampuchea on a fourteen day trip in August 1978. The visitors were even honoured by a dinner hosted by Comrade General Secretary Pol Pot himself. Part of the attempt to gather what limited foreign support (aside from cynical high politics) there was for the regime, given that a war with Vietnam was looming. The magazine was partly founded by Jan Myrdal, seen to the far left of the four delegates gathered in front of Angkor Wat. Gunnar Bergström, who has been seen in the media over the past eighteen months or so, seeking forgiveness for his past naive support for the Khmer Communists, is seen wearing the Chinese military cap.