He commands the sun of the enemies to set.

He spoke, and the East for friends became a great glow.

Should he say that coal turns white,

It will be as Stalin wills… .

The master of the entire world – remember – is now Stalin.

A much later composition by a leading Soviet poet shows development in style but hardly in subject matter:

I would have compared him to a white mountain – but

the mountain has a summit.

I would have compared him to the depths of the sea – but

the sea has a bottom.

I would have compared him to the shining moon – but

the moon shines at midnight, not at noon.

I would have compared him to the brilliant sun – but

the sun radiates at noon, not at midnight.

Mao Tse-Tung has been hailed as the one “whose mind created the world.” Kim Il- Sung, dictator of North Korea, is also deified, as was Nicolae Ceausescu, Communist dictator of Romania.

Ceausescu was another Stalinist figure. He was the object of a personality cult and was likened to Julius Caesar, Alexander the Great, Pericles, Cromwell, Napoleon, Peter the Great, and Abraham. This distinguished roster, it seems, is not enough. So he was also called “our lay God.”

(By the way, post-Communist  Romania,  which  did not  allow  international  religious conventions,  permitted  a  witches’   convention  in  the  spring  of  1979   in  Curtea- deArgesh.)

In Bucharest there was a museum containing gifts brought by the people to Ceausescu. In it was a watercolor painted by a blind man who regained his sight through a miracle. He attributed it to the fact that “he concentrated all his thoughts on the President, who not only can make the blind to see but can move the Carpathian mountains.”

Another portrayal showed Ceausescu with King Vlad Tsepesh, who was known as “the vampire Dracula” because he used to impale his adversaries. In similar fashion, Stalin magnified the personality of Czar Ivan the Terrible.

The administrators of Romania today were Communist party members. The Leopard has not changed its spots.

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