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personality cult

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personality cult
n
(Government, Politics & Diplomacy) deliberately cultivated adulation of a person, esp a political leader
Translations
personality cult
n → Personenkult m
personality cult n → culto della personalità
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His successor Gurbanguly Berdymukhamedov has erased some of the more bizarre aspects of Niyazov's personality cult but has come under fire from critics who accuse him of simply replacing it with his own.
Turkmen 'Eiffel Tower' planned: official by AFP / AFP Global Edition
But the face is not that of late Turkmen dictator Saparmurat Niyazov, who declared himself "Leader of all Turkmens" (Turkmenbashi) and built up a personality cult that made the Central Asian state notorious worldwide.
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