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The personality cult that he developed portrayed him as a wise, modest and just leader of the country. This strategy of creating a cult of personality was continued by Hafez's son, Bashar al-Assad, until his overthrow in 2024. [193] [194] After the fall of the Assad regime, various statues of the al-Assad family were destroyed.
The far-reaching personality cult of his father has been weaponized by Bashar al-Assad as a pillar of his regime's legitimacy and also as a supplement to enhance his own personality cult. Bashar's cult downplayed religious elements for technocratic Arab socialist themes, with a constant militaristic emphasis on conspiratorial threats from ...
"Cult of Personality" is a song by American rock band Living Colour, featured as the opening track and second single from their debut studio album Vivid (1988). The song was released in 1988, and reached No. 13 on the US Billboard Hot 100 and No. 9 on the Billboard Album Rock Tracks chart.
A primary class displaying Hua's portrait next to Mao's, 1978. Children dancing in a kindergarten, Shanghai, 1978.On the wall, posters of Mao Zedong and Hua Guofeng.. When the founder of the People's Republic of China and first Chairman of the Chinese Communist Party, Mao Zedong, died in 1976 his newly appointed successor, Hua Guofeng, was relatively unknown to the public at the start of his rule.
Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell (Ky.) condemned members of his own party for embracing a “cult of personality” around Hungary’s authoritarian leader Viktor Orbán Wednesday on the ...
Atatürk's cult of personality was started during the life of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk [1] and continued by his successors after his death in 1938, by members of both his Republican People's Party and opposition parties alike, [2] and in a limited amount by himself during his lifetime in order to popularize and cement his social and political reforms as a founder and the first President of ...
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"Heaven's Gate: The Cult of Cults" (Max) In 1997, 39 members of Heaven’s Gate , a celibate religious sect, died in a mass ritual suicide timed to the approach of the Hale-Bopp Comet.