Manifestation of Stalin’s personality cult – exaltation of the role of one person
• Stalin is a faithful follower of the teachings of Marx, Engels, Lenin (the idea of building socialism in a single country)
• The victory of the Bolshevik Party in October and the Civil War became possible for Stalin’s “wise leadership”
• Any criticism of the Secretary General is a counter-revolutionary conspiracy
• Soviet propaganda created around Stalin a semi-divine halo of an infallible “great leader and teacher.” Cities, factories, collective farms, military equipment were named after Stalin and his closest associates
• Stalin is deeper than the ocean, higher than the Himalayas, brighter than the Sun. He is the teacher of the universe
• Great leader, Lenin’s first student, outstanding commander, leader of the world proletariat, wise, father of nations, brilliant
