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Why do socialist countries usually have such a big cult of personality? (lemmygrad.ml)
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[–] porcupine@lemmygrad.ml 4 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Tell me with a straight face that any socialist country has a bigger cult of personality than the US “founding fathers”.

[–] PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

This shit have Washington as some kind of Zeus, presiding over the American-Roman pantheon and to disperse any doubts the entire fresco is even straight up called The Apotheosis of Washington

[–] porcupine@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Imagine mass exterminating indigenous people, stealing their land, carving your leaders heads into the side of a mountain to desecrate their sacred religious site, then turning around and accusing other countries of having an unhealthy fixation with their leaders.