Cult of personality after 1945

Question 1

Status

Answer 1

God-like status by 1945

Question 2

Party leaders

Answer 2

Treatment of Party leaders was appalling

Question 3

Stalin

Answer 3

Rarely left his country house (dacha) and became out of touch with reality

Question 4

70th birthday

Answer 4

A gain portrait was suspended from the sky in Moscow

Question 5

October 1952

Answer 5

At the {arty congress, Malenkov and Khrushchev made the main speeches

• Stalin requested at the congress to be relieved of his position as Party Secretary but this was refused as many were unsure of his intentions

Question 6

March 1953

Answer 6

Stalin died.

behind the scenes a new power struggle was developing between Beria, Malenkov and Molotov