Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Cult of Personality
- Propaganda
- Pictures+posters
labelling him a hero
everywhere
- 500,000 photos of
Lenin+Stalin as friends
chatting in 1932
- Lenin was popular
- Stalin statues,squares,
and avenues in every town
- Speeches
- Powerful
- Patriotic
- Communism
was "always
working well"
- Education
- Children studied him in history
- Taught he was a hero
- expected to join 'Young Pioneers'
(boy scout group that loved stalin)
- Religion
- Banned religion
- Encouraged to worship Stalin
- Churches closed, priests imprisoned
- Re-wrote history
- Said he played in a big
part of the communist
victory in the October
revolution of 1917
- Culture and arts
- Poets+musicians praised him
- WW2: featured in national anthem
- Everything monitored by NKVD
- Stalin prize and Stalin peace prizes were made
- Looked for pro-Stalin artists to make their mark