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A cult of personality is an excessive devotion to an idealized image of a person, often but not always a political leader. Cults of personality are often associated with far-right and nationalist leaders, such as Modi in India.[1]
Accusations against Stalin, Mao, and the Kim family[edit | edit source]
Many western sources claim that Stalin, Mao, and members of the Kim family (Kim Il Sung, Kim Jong Il, Kim Jong Un) fostered a cult of personality in order to maintain control over the population. While they are all highly respected politicians, and in some cases idolized to a worrying degree, it is untrue that this was a conscious effort. Stalin personally ordered a book about his childhood to not be printed in order to avoid idolization [2], and the Juche ideology places a precedence on the masses as the movers of history, not any great men [3].
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References[edit | edit source]
- ↑ Satya Mohapatra (2019-06-09). "Indian election: Victorious Modi masks attacks on workers with far-right bigotry" Liberation News. Archived from the original on 2021-03-16. Retrieved 2022-12-17.
- ↑ “The important thing resides in the fact that the book has a tendency to engrave on the minds of Soviet children (and people in general) the personality cult of leaders, of infallible heroes. This is dangerous and detrimental.”
Stalin, Josef (1938). Letter on Publications for Children Directed to the Central Committee of the All Union Communist Youth. - ↑ “Love and trust constitute the essence of politics in socialist society, where the
masses of the people have been transformed from objects of politics to the masters of politics.”
Kim, Jong Il (1994). Socialism is a Science. Rodong Sinmun.