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  2. Joseph Stalin's cult of personality - Wikipedia

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    The statue was a gift for Stalin's sixty-ninth birthday from Prague to commemorate "Mr. Stalin's personality, mostly from his ideological features". [23] After 5 years in the making, the massive 17,000-ton monument was finally revealed to the public which depicted Stalin, with one at the front of a group of proletarian workers. [24]

  3. On the Cult of Personality and Its Consequences - Wikipedia

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    Exaggerations of Stalin's role in the Great Patriotic War (World War II). Deportations of whole nationalities. Doctors' plot and Mingrelian affair. Manifestations of personality cult: songs, city names and so on. Lyrics of the State Anthem of the Soviet Union (first version, 1944–1953), which had references to Stalin.

  4. Cult of personality - Wikipedia

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    [104] [105] The personality cult began soon after Kim Il Sung took power in 1948, and was greatly expanded after his death in 1994. The pervasiveness and the extreme nature of North Korea's personality cult surpasses those of Joseph Stalin and Mao Zedong. [106]

  5. Joseph Stalin - Wikipedia

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    To bolster his image as a devoted Leninist amid his growing personality cult, Stalin gave nine lectures at Sverdlov University on the Foundations of Leninism, later published in book form. [194] At the 13th Party Congress in May 1924, Lenin's Testament was read only to the leaders of the provincial delegations. [195]

  6. Stalinism - Wikipedia

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    The cult of personality served to legitimate Stalin's authority, establish continuity with Lenin as his "discipline, student and mentee" in the view of his wider followers. [75] [80] His successor, Nikita Khrushchev, would later denounce the cult of personality around Stalin as contradictory to Leninist principles and party discourse. [81]

  7. Opinion: What the West gets wrong on Stalin and Putin - AOL

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    The question of Putin’s position on Stalinism suggests he is far from the all-powerful instigator of a Stalin cult and rather a manipulative manager of divergent, pro- and anti-Stalin societal ...

  8. List of cults of personality - Wikipedia

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    Hungarian Communist leader Mátyás Rákosi was surrounded by a cult of personality similar to that of Stalin. [53] This peaked on his 60th birthday in 1952, which was commemorated with a series of nationwide celebrations. [54] [55] Many things were named after him, including: the Manfréd Weiss Steel and Metal Works; the University of Miskolc

  9. De-Stalinization - Wikipedia

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    De-Stalinization (Russian: десталинизация, romanized: destalinizatsiya) comprised a series of political reforms in the Soviet Union after the death of long-time leader Joseph Stalin in 1953, and the thaw brought about by ascension of Nikita Khrushchev to power, [1] and his 1956 secret speech "On the Cult of Personality and Its ...