GLORIFY STALIN
(THELEADER)
Exaggeration
God-like
STALIN
to show his superiority
Super-being
Cult of
STALIN
Propaganda
What is
Propaganda?
- Used to manipulate public opinion (extremely persuasive)
Propaganda
and the Cult of Personality
- It aims to influence a group of people/country to think in a certain way
and the
Cult of Personality
- Provokes/pushes people into doing something (in result, changing their mindset)
- Can either be oral communication or through printing material (posters, books, etc)
=
Campaign for Stalin's popularity using propaganda
BRITTANY
CHARLIE
ALBERT
VERONICA
- Paintings
- Poetry
- Sculptures
- Posters
- Films
- History Books
Stalin was
EVERYWHERE
(workplace, streets, homes)
Cult of Stalin
A poem printed in
Pravda in 1935
- Continuous praise and applause
- Places were named after him (1925 - Tsaristsyn became known as Stalingrad)
- Censorship of anything that might reflect badly on Stalin
"O great Stalin, 0 leader of the peoples,
Thou who broughtest man to birth...
Thou who makest bloom the spring, Thou who makest virbrate the musical chords...
Thou, splendour of my spring, O
thou,Sun reflected by millions of hearts."
Examples of
Propaganda
"Stalin was like a god for us"
"Looking back on my life, I now see that period of genuine happiness"
People wanted to believe in something great
The Russians reactions
to the
Cult of Personality
"Perfect Individual"
Was it
sucessful?
Stalin gave them that sense of accomplishment
"Father of the nation, genius of all time"
"Somebody told me that Stalin was the best surgeon, I believed it"
"Stalin was the greatest man on earth"