Very soon after Stalin died in 1953, the notion of "Stalin's personality cult."The first who started the fight against this phenomenon, became Beria Lavrenty Pavlovich, Georgi Malenkov and Maksimilianovich.
In Soviet literature thirties and fifties of the twentieth century became one of the central image of Stalin.They wrote about the leader works well and foreign writers Communists, among them - Pablo Neruda, Henri Barbusse.In the USSR, their creations were duplicated and translated.
works that glorify Stalin appeared in publications and folklore of almost all the peoples of the USSR.
In Soviet sculpture and painting in this period also traced the cult of Stalin.
in shaping the image of the leader of propaganda played a special role publicized Soviet posters, which were devoted to a variety of topics.
lifetime called the name of Stalin was a very large number of objects, among them were and towns, streets, factories, cultural centers.Most likely, the first of which became Stalingrad.In the Civil War (in nineteen twenty-seventh year) he took part in the defense of Tsaritsyn Stalin.
In many countries of Eastern Europe after 1945 there were cities that were named in his honor.
Formation of Stalin's personality cult has become one of the fragments of the political regime of the USSR in the thirties.
Fifty years he was the twenty-first December 1921.Up to this point all the members of the Politburo called the "leader of the party" and listed in alphabetical order.But from that moment, "Institute of Leaders" liquidated and Stalin declared the only "first disciple of Lenin" and "leader of the party."
Stalin called a genius, a great, wise.The country has a "leader of the world proletariat."He was also named an outstanding military leader and creator of the Red Army, organized in October, a great strategist five years.Party officials, workers, artists, academics from each other contested championship praising Stalin.However, Jambul, Kazakh folk poet, has surpassed all in "Pravda", he wrote that "Stalin - deeper than the ocean, above the Himalayas, brighter than the sun.He - a teacher of the universe. "
Stalin's personality cult was exposed by Nikita Khrushchev during the Twentieth Party Congress in 1956, the twenty-fifth of February.It lasted from the fourteenth of February 25, 1956, it was attended with a vote one thousand three hundred forty-nine delegates with a consultative voice eighty one representing four hundred nineteen thousand six hundred and nine candidates for the party members and six million seven hundred ninety-five thousand eight hundred ninety-six membersParty.
exposure of Stalin's personality cult Nikita Khrushchev was set out in an enclosed report "On the Personality Cult and its consequences."
It Khrushchev voiced their views on the recent past of the country and listed numerous facts of history the second half of the thirties and early fifties, interprets them as a crime, where Stalin for them are indicted.The problem of military and party officials who were repressed with the governor, was also raised.The report, despite this conventional closing, distributed all over the country party, and some enterprises have attracted even non-party to its discussion.Even in the cells of the Komsomol it conducted its discussion.Around the world, a report exposing Stalin's personality cult, has attracted a lot of attention, it was translated into many languages and distributed even in the non-Communist circles.However, only nine hundred and eighty-ninth tysyacha year it was published in the Soviet Union in the journal titled "Proceedings of the CPSU."
