Editing Cult of personality

[[File:1_56lAB2JneDtvid2JmLyQ_w.jpg|thumb|300px|Propaganda posters depicting various dictators that had a cult of personality. ]]{{Quote|I sell the things you need to be<br>I'm the smiling face on your T.V.<br>I'm the cult of personality<br>I exploit you still you love me<br>I tell you one and one makes three<br>I'm the cult of personality|Living Colour, "Cult of Personality"}}
A '''cult of personality''', '''personality cult''', or '''cult of the leader''', arises when a country's regime – or, more rarely, an individual – uses the techniques of mass media, [[propaganda]], the [[big lie]], spectacle, the arts, patriotism, and government-organized demonstrations and rallies to create an idealized, heroic, and worshipful image of a leader, often through unquestioning flattery and praise. 
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A cult of personality is similar to apotheosis, except that it is established by modern social engineering techniques, usually by the state or the party in one-party states and dominant-party states. It is often seen in [[Authoritarianism|authoritarian]] countries and [[dictatorship]]s. 

== Leaders who had (or currently have) a cult of personality ==
* [[Abdel Fattah el-Sisi]]
* [[Adolf Hitler]]
* [[Alfredo Stroessner]]
* [[Ali Khamenei]]
* [[Augusto Pinochet]]
* [[Bashar al-Assad]]
* [[Benito Mussolini]]
* [[Benjamin Netanyahu]]
* [[Che Guevara]]
* [[Daniel Ortega]]
* [[Donald Trump]] (unofficially)
* [[Emperor Hirohito]]
* [[Enver Hoxha]]
* [[Ferdinand Marcos]]
* [[Fidel Castro]]
* [[Francisco Franco]]
* [[Francisco Macías Nguema]]
* [[François Duvalier]]
* [[Fulgencio Batista]]
* [[Gamal Abdel Nasser]]
* [[Giorgia Meloni]] (unofficially)
* [[Gnassingbé Eyadéma]]
* [[Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedow]]
* [[Hafez al-Assad]]
* [[Hastings Banda]]
* [[Heydar Aliyev]]
* [[Hissène Habré]]
* [[Hồ Chí Minh]]
* [[Hugo Banzer]]
* [[Hugo Chávez]]
* [[Idi Amin Dada]]
* [[Imelda Marcos]]
* [[Jair Bolsonaro]]
* [[Jorge Rafael Videla]]
* [[Joseph Stalin]]
* [[Josip Broz Tito]]
* [[Juan Perón]]
* [[Juvénal Habyarimana]]
* [[Kim Il-sung]]
* [[Kim Jong-il]]
* [[Kim Jong-un]]
* [[Kwame Nkrumah]]
* [[Leonid Brezhnev]]
* [[Mahmoud Ahmadinejad]]
* [[Manuel Noriega]]
* [[Mao Zedong]]
* [[Mátyás Rákosi]]
* [[Maurice Yaméogo]]
* [[Mobutu Sese Seko]]
* [[Muammar Gaddafi]]
* [[Narendra Modi]]
* [[Nicolae Ceaușescu]]
* [[Nicolás Maduro]]
* [[Nur Muhammad Taraki]]
* [[Nursultan Nazarbayev]]
* [[Philippe Pétain]]
* [[Park Chung-hee]]
* [[Pol Pot]]
* [[Rafael Trujillo]]
* [[Recep Tayyip Erdoğan]]
* [[Robert Mugabe]]
* [[Rodrigo Duterte]]
* [[Ruhollah Khomeini]]
* [[Saddam Hussein]]
* [[Samuel Doe]]
* [[Saparmurat Niyazov]]
* [[Slobodan Milošević]]
* [[Suharto]]
* [[Sukarno]]
* [[Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani]]
* [[Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo]]
* [[Viktor Orbán]] (unofficially)
* [[Vladimir Lenin]]
* [[Vladimir Putin]]
* [[Xi Jinping]]

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