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from
the late 1920s on, stalin actively encouraged and drummed up
adulation of himself by official propaganda. slavish admiration of
the leader was obviously seen by him as an important prerequisite
for establishing a direct personal dictatorship. it served to
justify stalin抯 absolute prerogatives by extolling his allegedly
exceptional, outstanding, and even superhuman qualities as leader.
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the officially sponsored idolatry was inflated to ridiculous
extremes that defied all common sense. an extract taken from a
speech of one of the deputies to the congress of soviets in 1935
conveys the extent of the deification of the tyrant, for whom no
vulgar glorification of his person could be too extravagant:
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thank you, stalin. thank you because i am joyful. thank you because
i am well . . ..
thy
name is engraven on every factory, every machine, every place on
earth, and in the hearts of all men. . . .
every time i have found myself in his presence i have been
subjugated by his strength, his charm, his grandeur. . . .
i
write books. i am an author. all thanks to thee, o great educator,
stalin. i love a young woman with a renewed love and shall
perpetuate myself in my children梐ll thanks to thee, great educator,
stalin. i shall be eternally happy and joyous, all thanks to thee,
great educator, stalin. everything belongs to thee, chief of our
great country. and when the woman i love presents me with a child,
the first word it shall utter will be: stalin.
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the
immoderate fanning of the leader抯 cult went hand in hand with
massive ideological indoctrination of the populace. the regime
sought to turn marxism into a new socialist religion to serve as an
emotional and intellectual substitute of orthodox christianity. the
orthodox church itself was under constant attacks from the
officially enforced state atheism, and its role considerably
declined. stalin himself posed as 揾igh priest?of the new atheist
church. he shaped marxism-leninism into a rigidly dogmatic and
authoritarian ideology, designed to regulate all aspects of social
life and to serve and justify his policies.
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his
brand of marxism was characterized by sketchiness and
oversimplification, calculated to appeal to the broad masses of the
working people. his earlier theological background as a seminarist
may account for his ability to find a popular form to express ideas.
catchy and aphoristic slogans, clear and unambiguous ideological
definitions, and a knack to present arguments in the form of
clear-cut points were hallmarks of his public speeches and written
articles. in 1938 stalin抯
short course of the history of the communist party
was published, giving the masses the 揳uthorized?encyclopedia and
gospel of the socialist religion. its author himself was now almost
a living god and an object of ritual worship.
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