12-15-2020, 01:01 AM
I have found a better video treatment of a cult of personality, again that of Miklos Horthy, military dictator and regent of basically a kingdom without a king. (Have a reigning monarch who does not really rule, or call the system a republic... don't try to be in between).
Horthy was a reactionary dictator, much less nasty than the likes of the Kim dynasty, Pinochet, Amin, or Saddam... but still, the elements of a cult of personality are there. Given a choice between Hitler's Germany, Stalin's Soviet Union, or Franco's Spain, I would have rather been in Hungary when Horthy called the shots (after he had suppressed a Commie revolution soon after World War I in Hungary) than any any of those other places.
Horthy was obviously too old to lead any army in battle, yet he is called "Hungary's best and most gallant soldier".
Can you imagine the elderly Sir Winston Churchill getting such treatment, let alone the crippled FDR?
This is a better video and one more illustrative of the personality cult than I showed of the same dictator. The depiction of Hungary is of Hungary after dismembering Czechoslovakia, taking a bite out of Romania with the connivance of Hitler, and making a cheap annexation of a piece of Yugoslavia.
This goes further than anything that Trump did. Again, at least the music is good.
Horthy was a reactionary dictator, much less nasty than the likes of the Kim dynasty, Pinochet, Amin, or Saddam... but still, the elements of a cult of personality are there. Given a choice between Hitler's Germany, Stalin's Soviet Union, or Franco's Spain, I would have rather been in Hungary when Horthy called the shots (after he had suppressed a Commie revolution soon after World War I in Hungary) than any any of those other places.
Horthy was obviously too old to lead any army in battle, yet he is called "Hungary's best and most gallant soldier".
Can you imagine the elderly Sir Winston Churchill getting such treatment, let alone the crippled FDR?
This is a better video and one more illustrative of the personality cult than I showed of the same dictator. The depiction of Hungary is of Hungary after dismembering Czechoslovakia, taking a bite out of Romania with the connivance of Hitler, and making a cheap annexation of a piece of Yugoslavia.
This goes further than anything that Trump did. Again, at least the music is good.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.
