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Mao, Stalin, Hitler, Kim Jong Il and now Supreme Allied Commander of the World, George W. Bush, all proud propagators of personality cults.
Know the enemy.
Do you know what The Cult of Personality means?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cult_of_personality
That does not explain The Cult of Personality.
I am going to try:
When a significantly powerful percentage of a population embrace a belief in their own individual weakness the social order creates a demand for 'A Strong Man' of immense power (personality) to take absolute control of the social order of that society where the significantly powerful percentage of the population embraces a belief in their own individual weakness.
In other words; might makes right.
The mighty personality (amoral and criminal) dictates right from wrong for everyone including the segment of the population (less significant and less powerful) who do not embrace a belief in their own individual weakness.
When The Cult of Personality takes control of a society the result is torture and mass murder.
Read Solzhenitsyn of you cannot or will not see this to be true.
The Cult of Personality is very simply a term used to describe the absolute elimination of civil social order - complete barbarity.
I am inspired to re-open my copy of The Gulag Archipelago and re-search The Cult of Personality from one of its most resilient victims.
I may have loaned out my copy. How about a Google search?
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=The+Cult+of+Personality+Solzhenitsyn
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/alesol.htm
At the age of 42, Solzhenitsy had written a great deal secretly, but published nothing. After Nikita Khrushchev had publicly condemned the "cult of personality" - an attack on Stalin's heritage - the political censorship loosened its tight grip for a period. Solzhenitsyn's first book, One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, appeared next year in the leading Soviet literary journal Novyi Mir. It marked the beginning of Soviet prison-camp literature. Solzhenitsyn used third-person direct speech, examining the Soviet life through the eyes of a simple Everyman. Written in clear and honest style, it described the horrors of just one day in a labour camp. The book gained fame both in the USSR and the West, and was compared with Fedor Dostoyevsky's novel House of the Dead. With the royalties, Solzhenitsyn bought a green Moskvich car.
How about a new search for Nikita Khrushchev and "cult of personality"?
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1956khrushchev-secret1.html
Allow me first of all to remind you bow severely the classics of Marxism-Leninism denounced every manifestation of the cult of the individual. In a letter to the German political worker, Wilhelm Bloss, Marx stated: "From my antipathy to any cult of the individual, I never made public during the existence of the International the numerous addresses from various countries which recognized my merits and which annoyed me. I did not even reply to them, except sometimes to rebuke their authors. Engels and I first joined the secret society of Communists on the condition that everything making for superstitious worship of authority would be deleted from its statute. . . .
Above is a clue to how The Cult of Personality Falsehood became reality. Note the propagation step from "the cult of the individual' to the "superstitious worship of authority" i.e. "The Cult of Personality".
A. Associate "Cult" with "Individual" and create negative reinforcement by association against what is clearly factual i.e. individual power of will (individual power of determining right from wrong = individual authority).
Cult is bad individual authority is bad. Get it?
What is missing, so far, is the link between the "cult of the individual" and The Cult of Personality.
Did the replacement of 'the individual' with 'personality' occur by chance and/or is the 'cult of the individual' related to The Cult of Personality.
If you read Solzhenitsyn the question/answer may become easier to understand as a significant question seeking an accurate answer. A false answer to any significant question can drive future action in directions that cannot accomplish desired results.
A compounding of misdirection resulting from falsehood leads to barbarism and the destruction of civil society - on purpose. The orchestration of this type of organized crime creates a flow of wealth from the victims to the creators of this propagandized Cult of Personality. The creators and the people maintaining the fraud profit from the conflicts caused by the fraud and profit from the reconstruction after the conflict.
It does not take a genius to figure out the content of the information exchanged in the Secret Meetings conducted by the criminals.
Stalin originated the concept enemy of the people. This term automatically rendered it unnecessary that the ideological errors of a man or men engaged in a controversy be proven; this term made possible the usage of the most cruel repression, violating all norms of revolutionary legality, against anyone who in any way disagreed with Stalin, against those who were only suspected of hostile intent, against those who had bad reputations. This concept, enemy of the people, actually eliminated the possibility of any kind of ideological fight or the making of one's views known on this or that issue, even those of a practical character. In the main, and in actuality, the only proof of guilt used, against all norms of current legal science, was the confession of the accused himself, and, as subsequent probing proved, confessions were acquired through physical pressures against the accused. . . .
Torture, another lie, is not meant to extract information. The purpose of torture is to gain "confessions", another lie, as justifications or legitimizations for torture, which, in turn legitimizes or justifies the complete elimination of individual will.
The message is clear despite the contortions of the layers of lies. If you think for yourself you will be tortured.
If you are not with us, then, you are against us.
If you are not willing to torture, then, you will be tortured.
If you are not the most powerful and most evil personality, then, you will be tortured.
Confess!
The most powerful personality is the most evil personality!
Confess!
Might IS RIGHT!
If you do not yet believe, well, we have ways of making you believe.
"Ve have vays of making you talk (confess)."
Now when the cases of some of these so-called spies and saboteurs were examined it was found that all their cases were fabricated. Confessions of guilt of many- arrested and charged with enemy activity were gained with the help of cruel and inhuman tortures. . . .
We must state that after the war the situation became even more complicated. Stalin became even more capricious, irritable, and brutal; in particular his suspicion grew. His persecution mania reached unbelievable dimensions. Many workers were becoming enemies before his very eyes. After the war Stalin separated himself from the collective even more. Everything was decided by him alone without any consideration for anyone or anything.
The "Decider" decides. The decision is to torture and mass murder.
The July plenum of the Central Committee studied in detail the reasons for the development of conflict with Yugoslavia. It was a shameful role which Stalin played here. The "Yugoslav affair" contained no problems which could not have been solved through party discussions among comrades. There was no significant basis for the development of this "affair;" it was completely possible to have prevented the rupture of relations with that country.
I recall the first days when the conflict between the Soviet Union and Yugoslavia began artificially to be blown up. Once, when I carne from Kiev to Moscow, I was invited to visit Stalin who, pointing to the copy of a letter lately sent to Tito, asked me, "Have you read this?"
The decider is now fabricating an artificial blow up of Iran. If that new "affair" goes off on schedule, then, there will be more torture and mass murder - on purpose.
You see to what Stalin's mania for greatness led. He bad completely lost consciousness of reality; he demonstrated his suspicion and haughtiness not only in relation to individuals in the USSR, but in relation to whole parties and nations. . . .
Next is the subtle link between the cult of the individual and the cult of personality. I'm leaving this effort at this point. You either get it or you will get it. You may never 'get it'. What will you do to avoid being tortured? Will you give up your power to determine right from wrong?
Comrades, the cult of the individual acquired such monstrous size chiefly because Stalin himself, using all conceivable methods, supported the glorification of his own person. This is supported by numerous facts. One of the most characteristic examples of Stalin's self -glorification and of his lack of even elementary modesty is the edition of his Short Biography, which was published in 1948.
We should in all seriousness consider the question of the cult of the individual. We cannot let this matter get out of the party, especially not to the press. It is for this reason that we are considering it here at a closed congress session. We should know the limits; we should not give ammunition to the enemy; we should not wash our dirty linen before their eves. I think that the delegates to the congress will understand and assess properly all these proposals. [Tumultuous applause.]
Comrades, the 20tb Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union has manifested with a new strength the unshakable unity- of our party, its cohesiveness around the central committee, its resolute will to accomplish the great task of building communism. [Tumultuous applause.] And the fact that we present in all the ramifications the basic problems of overcoming the cult of the individual which is alien to Marxism-Leninism, as well as the problem of liquidating its burdensome consequences, is an evidence of the great moral and political strength of our party'. [Prolonged applause.]
Who is not for "The Unitary Executive"?
If you are not with us, then, you are against us.
You will be as tortured as our souls.
Confess!
Misery loves company.