In my comparative politics courses I teach young college students about the phenomena of cults-of-personality. It comes up in my unit on communism, when I get to Krushchev’s Secret Speech of 1956. This was a private condemnation of the atrocities masterminded by Stalin, “who absolutely did not tolerate collegiality in leadership and in work, and […]
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I Love the Way You Lie to Me
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