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Tag: Cult of Personality

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28th December 1972: Kim Il-sung becomes President of North Korea

28th December 2018
Tagged as: Communism, Cult of Personality, Dictatorship, North Korea, Politics, USSR

On the 28^th December 1972, Kim Il-sung became the first President of North Korea.

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25th February 1956: Khruschev criticises Stalin in his ‘secret speech’ to the 20th Party Congress

25th February 2018
Tagged as: Cold War, Communism, Cult of Personality, Khrushchev, Soviet Union, Stalin, USSR

Shortly after midnight on the 25^th February 1956, Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev delivered his ‘secret speech’, officially called “On the Cult of Personality and Its Consequences”, in a four hour “closed session” at the end of the 20th Party Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.