Cult of Personality

Living Colour - Cult Of Personality (Official Video)
Living Colour (1988)

I was surprised to see that RT (formerly Russia Today) has story today denouncing Stalin. I've known for a long time that he was a vicious, cruel, authoritarian maniac. Idi Amin is my best comparison. They both rank right up there with Hitler in my personal Pantheon of Evil. Some people like to credit Stalin for defeating the Nazis in WW2 when what really happened is that Russia defeated Hitler in spite of Stalin.

Seems Khrushchev denounced Stalin way back in 1956 in his speech On the Cult of Personality and Its Consequences also known as the Secret Speech, as it was originally given only to the Politburo. Printed copies got passed around, some even made it to the West. It wasn't published in the Soviet Union until 1989, two years before the glorious revolution came crashing down around their pointed little communist heads.