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The image of Stalin as a father was one way in which Soviet propagandists aimed to incorporate traditional religious symbols and language into the cult of personality; the title of "father" now first and foremost belonged to Stalin, as opposed to the Russian Orthodox priests. The cult of personality also adopted the Christian traditions of ...
Even under the communist regime, the Stalin cult of personality portrayed Stalin's leadership as patriarchy under the features laid out during Khrushchev's speech. [15] After 1936, the Soviet press described Stalin as the "Father of Nations". [135] One key element of Soviet propaganda was interactions between Stalin and the children of the ...
The production of The Vow was delayed by the Second World War, [1] during which the personality cult of Stalin was set aside in favour of patriotic motifs, to encourage the populace to resist the enemy. Even before the German surrender, as victory seemed secure, the cult gradually began its return to the screen; after 1945, it reached new ...
Exaggerations of Stalin's role in the Great Patriotic War (World War II). Deportations of whole nationalities. Doctors' plot and Mingrelian affair. Manifestations of personality cult: songs, city names and so on. Lyrics of the State Anthem of the Soviet Union (first version, 1944–1953), which had references to Stalin.
Cinema scholar Nikolas Hülbusch regarded The Great Dawn as "the first contribution of the Tbilisi Studio to Stalin's cult of personality", [8] noting that the premier's character began to exhibit the traits that would define it in later propaganda films, like the ability to mellow out the romantic relationships of his followers. [9]
The trailer gives a hint at the way the film ties together these different strands, showing scenes of a Nazi rally and intercutting them with images of India and modern day America (a Trump ...
The cult of personality served to legitimate Stalin's authority, establish continuity with Lenin as his "discipline, student and mentee" in the view of his wider followers. [76] [81] His successor, Nikita Khrushchev, would later denounce the cult of personality around Stalin as contradictory to Leninist principles and party discourse. [82]
Hungarian Communist leader Mátyás Rákosi was surrounded by a cult of personality similar to that of Stalin. [51] This peaked on his 60th birthday in 1952, which was commemorated with a series of nationwide celebrations. [52] [53] Many things were named after him, including: the Manfréd Weiss Steel and Metal Works; the University of Miskolc