The expression worship of the personality indicates the excessive adulation of a chief (alive), it applies particularly to a chief of State. It can extend to any person in sight profiting from a fort " beating " media.
The expression itself comes from a speech of Nikita Khrouchtchev with the XX {{E}} congress of the Communist party of the Soviet Union, in 1956.
Used in the beginning to describe the dignitaries of the the Stalinist USSR and some comparable Mode S (Romania of Ceauşescu, China of Mao), the idea of worship of the Personnalité for summer has extended to many other situations. However its use relating to of the Heads of State of modes of Western Europe or of the the Middle East or the chiefs of political movements or religious poses problem.
The worship of the personality can be maintained by various means Propagande, and supposes in particular a broad use of the Médias and collective events (spontaneous gatherings and demonstrations or not)
Forms taken in various dictatorships
North Korea
As of more the young age, the citizens prosternent in front of giant statues of Kim It-sung, called the president eternal , or of his dynastic successor, Kim Jong-il, her son, called him it dear leader by propaganda.
Iraq of Saddam Hussein
After having physically carried out any possible opposition within the Left Baath which it had carried to the capacity, Saddam Hussein founded a capacity centered around its personality; it modified for that the teaching contents in the elementary schools, showed Népotisme while placing at the head of the emanating capacity of the people of its clan or of its native village to assist it, and, sign of the worship related to its setting in scene, was represented in various forms like imperial continuator of the times mésopotamiennes and Assyrian that the country had assimilated like its History. The dictatorial capacity of Saddam Hussein placed the minority sunnite in situation of dominant community on the other demographic components of the country (Shiite and Kurdish were severely repressed).
Turkménistan
The mode of late the Saparmyrat Nyýazow known as " Türkmenbaşy " to the Turkménistan showed characteristics surprisingly similar to the worship of the personality in North Korea. Kim Il Sung had set up the doctrines of the Juche in religion of State, her Kim Jong Il son associated her elements with the corpus to form the Politique songun; small Chinese under Mao held up the red Little book, with Nyýazow Turknènes had the Book of the Heart, Ruhnama , wrote of the leader according to him inspired by Coran.
See too
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Figure of Napoleon: to see Napoleonean Legend
- Portraits of Napoleon i
- Monument in Stalin (Prague)
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