You must have been doing something right as you'd won a Grammy for
Cult of Personality and won another one for the follow-up album Time's Up.
The soil for authoritarianism and a
cult of personality has been plowed under by three decades of increasing openness and economic growth.
Following Khrushchev's ouster, the Brezhnev regime, which was initially tentative regarding the Stalin issue, finally promoted a "heroic narrative" focused on the "construction of socialism" and triumph over Nazism that "required a certain revival of tribute toward Stalin," which subsequently led to the suppression of criticism of the
cult of personality and the rise of the dissident movement (239).
But North Korea is also known to be historically thin-skinned, especially when it comes to the Kims, who have cultivated a
cult of personality that analysts say has helped the family pass the torch from father to son twice despite the country's Communist underpinnings.
But England bought into the
cult of personality and completely forgot that Italy had a few more other talented players on the pitch and allowed Matteo Darmian and Antonio Candreva to pose the real threat on the right and assist in producing the winning goal for that huge fan of bonfire night Mario Balotelli.
The first episode of Youssef's third season on CBC created controversy when the satirist took jabs at the
cult of personality surrounding former Defence Minister Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi.
Recently elected as the site of World Expo 2020 and firmly on the road to recovery after the 2008 recession, Dubai is ascendant again and its status as a global city, an exemplar of neoliberalism and urban branding, is commonly attributed to the singular vision of its own "dear leader." Read as an allegory of the city, Hora's show was a timely reminder to look through this carefully crafted
cult of personality, which masks the everyday contributions of those faceless individuals whose labor built and continues to sustain Dubai.
Cult of personality About 1,000 appearances and radio
While the RSS has yet to spare someone for the post of the organising secretary -- the link between the BJP and the RSS, just last week, former party spokesperson Sunil Bhargava wrote to party president Rajnath Singh complaining about " the
cult of personality overshadowing the organisation".
The
cult of personality that he has created for himself was evident during the week when the first thing we priced up following his appointment wasn't Sunderland's odds of survival, but for him to push over another ref and for him to be sent to the stands during the season (100/1 and 4/1 for those of you asking!).
They are used to build a
cult of personality for the dynastic family.
This timely volume on the history of North Korea provides an insider's look, as far as one exists, into this paradoxical political system and explores the effects of the recent transition of power to Kim Jong Un on the
cult of personality that has been the backbone of this isolated nation.