Today I shall be blogging on the cult of personality ^^

I shall be talking about Mao ZeDong, and not Stalin, because Ms Soh had already stated that he is not to be done!

Mao ZeDong was a LARGE symbolic figure in China. If the Chinese in 20th century China didn't know him, then they might as well have a black cloth tied around their eyes as a blindfold, it wouldn't make a difference.

Large quantities of politicized art were produced and circulated — with Mao at the centre! Numerous posters and musical compositions referred to Mao as "A red sun in the centre of our hearts" (我们心中的红太阳) and a "Saviour of the people" (人民的大救星).

Generally, I think that Mao ZeDong was all of this in the earlier period of time, when introducing Communism was actually effective in uniting peasants. However, when progressing into bringing China up after uniting it, Mao ZeDong was most ineffective. His Cultural Revolution and his Great Leap Forward proved to be not only ineffective, but also made the Chinese go backwards. He didn't want to industrialize so the Chinese didn't move forward but backwards in 20th century terms - especially since Russia was moving forward at such a fast pace with Stalin governing it.

Similarly to Stalin, Mao ZeDong had also launched two 5-year plans, namely the Cultural Revolution and the Great Leap Forward. The only thing that was different, however, was that he had made China move backwards and not forwards, unlike Stalin, who's two 5-year plans hd made Russia rise up to a superpower.