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People seem to need Hero figures. That's probably how and why these Personality Cults are developed - George Washington, etc. In the Communist world of course, there were those of Stalin and Mao. In the Maoist Anti-Soviet campaign they claimed to be making a principled defense of Stalin against Khrushchev's critique of Stalin. There's irony in that - Stalin once referred to Mao and his associates as "radish communists" - Nationalists with a red coloration. And he was absolutely correct. The proof of the pudding was the ease with which the Mao-dominated CCP lined up with US/NATO in the 70's - delivering a mortal blow which eventually brought down the entire Socialist Camp.

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