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Post by Tbilisi on Jan 11, 2004 16:45:26 GMT -5
I think it's really intresting studying the cults of personalty that has evolved among many leaders, such as Lenin, Stalin, Saddam Hussayn al-Tikriti, Turkmen president Sapumrad Nijazov for examples. They are by some way really intresting to study, for example the cult around the founder of the USSR Vladimir Illjitj Lenin. The Russians where a very religious people, and when the Bolsheviks aboloshied the Christian god they needed a new one = Lenin. There where extreme groups in the former USSR that even prayed to Lenin, as he was God. One "late" cult are the one around Turkmen president S. Nijazov. He has a gloden statue of himself high over Ashgbat, Turkmenistan. It automaticly turns where the sun is, so the sun allways will shine in the "Allmighty Turkmenbashi's" face. Than the cult around "late" Saddam. I don't know if that one was like the other, but I suppose so. Hughe statues, the leader's portrait everywhere. In Noth Korea, they are really extreme. They said that their late ledare Kim Il Sung invented the telegraph, the telephone and the nail....once a tourist accidently spit in a rubbish can where a paper with Kim Il Sung's picture was on, and the tourist in question was thrown out of the country. But these cult are intresting to study.. I tried to be so netral I could, I hope no one will get angry with me.. /"Tbilisi"
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Post by Silveira on Jan 11, 2004 17:57:55 GMT -5
Through the following link, you can listen to an interesting BBC3 radio programme about a man who went to North Korea and recorded some local people singing popular songs. The most popular tunes in North Korea have names like "The Eternal Happiness of the Fatherland is a Gift of the Great Leader" and "Long Live Generalissimo Kim Il Sung, the Ever Victorious Iron Willed Brilliant Commander", etc. www.bbc.co.uk/radio3/world/northkorea.shtml
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Post by Tbilisi on Jan 11, 2004 18:18:24 GMT -5
That picture is really extreme... Here's old Iosif Vissarionovitj:
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Post by AWAR on Jan 13, 2004 0:24:30 GMT -5
Great thread, I always wondered what exactly causes this phenomena.
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Praetor
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Post by Praetor on Jan 14, 2004 13:00:19 GMT -5
What is causing it? Two generations of extensive brainwash perhaps, in the case of N.Korea at least.I remember a girl from N.Korea winning a gold medal in athletics some 3 or 4 years ago.When she got interviewed she said that she owes everything to the great leader Kim Jong Il...
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Post by Tbilisi on Jan 14, 2004 16:12:19 GMT -5
What is causing it? Two generations of extensive brainwash perhaps, in the case of N.Korea at least.I remember a girl from N.Korea winning a gold medal in athletics some 3 or 4 years ago.When she got interviewed she said that she owes everything to the great leader Kim Jong Il... Na, in that case I think se would have been shot back home in N.Korea if she hadn't menched Kim Jong Il's name.. you know, the Soviets did the same: If you where a Russian and said something bad about Lenin or Stalin abroad, the KGB/NKVD would hunt you down and kill you.
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Post by Berter on Jan 14, 2004 17:28:14 GMT -5
Few foolish people...on a hill of billions of victims....! "What shall it profit a man, if he gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?"
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