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"Cult of Personality" is a song by American rock band Living Colour, featured as the opening track and second single from their debut studio album Vivid (1988). The song was released in 1988, and reached No. 13 on the US Billboard Hot 100 and No. 9 on the Billboard Album Rock Tracks chart.
The far-reaching personality cult of his father has been weaponized by Bashar al-Assad as a pillar of his regime's legitimacy and also as a supplement to enhance his own personality cult. Bashar's cult downplayed religious elements for technocratic Arab socialist themes, with a constant militaristic emphasis on conspiratorial threats from ...
The official discography of Living Colour, ... "Cult of Personality" 13 9 — — 54 — 3 67 ... Stone Free: A Tribute to Jimi Hendrix:
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About Category:Cults of personality and related categories: This category's scope contains articles about Cults of personality, which may be a contentious label The main article for this category is Cults of personality .
The personality cult began soon after Kim Il Sung took power in 1948, and was greatly expanded after his death in 1994. While other countries have had cults of personality to various degrees, the pervasiveness and extreme nature of North Korea's personality cult surpasses that of both its original influences, Joseph Stalin and Mao Zedong. [6]
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. The non-awarding of the Lenin State Prize since 1935, which should be corrected at once by the Supreme Soviet and the Council of Ministers.
"Cult of personality" is shallow political analysis, but plenty of sources use and analyze this not-very-useful term such that the article will surely continue to exist. An attempt to address the issues you raise might be to add a "Criticism of terminology" heading (I suspect you would find more sources like this one ).