With a caveat about making parallels across cultural lines, the situation will be comparable when a US politician dies and there is a stampede at the funeral to see the Dead God, killing hundreds.
As for Luke's point -- causally speaking, it's not so much that authoritarianism socialisms gave birth to Stalins as that Stalins gave birth to authoritarian socialisms.
--- Charles Brown <cbrown at michiganlegal.org> wrote:
>
> ^^^^
>
> CB: It wouldn't be weird times or strange guys if
> they were Americans.
> "Every" successful politician in U.S. history has
> built a personality cult.
> It's the American way. Personality cult =
> Celebrity.
>
> Here's a picture of George Bush kissing bavies and
> reading stories to
> children while Washington burns.
>
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