3: Create a personality cult
How to become a dictator
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Mao's Loyalty to Mao Zedong
Mao Zedong came to power in 1949 after a bloody civil war carried out with massive support from the Soviet Union. Mao collectivized the economy and imposed all pervasive control over the lives of ordinary people. Loyalty to the Chairman became paramount and remained the leading motive of a series of relentless political campaigns until his death in 1976.
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