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Russia and China

10.April 2024 Aleksandar Novačić

Lenin, Stalin, Mao and successors

According to polls by the Levada Center, 25 percent of those polled spoke positively about Stalin 20 years ago, and in 2023 that percentage reached 67 percent. The XNUMXth anniversary of Lenin's death went unnoticed in Moscow - they say that the Moscow zoo has more visitors than the mausoleum of the founder of the USSR. And, in the words of Xi Jinping, Mao Zedong Thought represents "the precious spiritual wealth of the Party"

The culture of memory

26.October 2022. Nadja Ivanji Švab

We were in Mao's China before Tito

On the occasion of the death of our author Nadja Ivanja Švab, we are republishing one of her numerous texts.

Cult of personality

30.August 2017. Andrei Ivanji

Gods among us

Not everyone can be a leader. Monuments are not built for everyone during their lifetime, cities and streets are named after them. Not every head of state or government aspires to be worshiped by the masses, to have songs written for him, to have ministers obey him without question, to be sinless, to be a deity. These are people of a special kind. They have one thing in common regardless of their ideology: they are all covert or open dictators and build a cult of personality so that they can rule unhindered and for life.