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The book you linked seemed to be a explicitly Communist reexamining. I wouldn't really go to that for unbiased history. But anyway.
Do you agree that Stalin and Mau created cults of personality?
There is no such thing as unbiased
Do you agree that Stalin and Mau created cults of personality?
Wikipedia has a capitalism supporting bias and says this
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Stalin%27s_cult_of_personality#:~:text=Stalin's%20opinion%20of%20his%20cult,-Like%20Lenin%2C%20Stalin&text=In%20the%201930s%20Stalin%20made,such%20as%20the%20working%20class.
Those are all Stalin's public statements. It looks good to downplay your cult. But he still undoubtedly had one.
Lennan for example seemed to pretty strongly oppose a cult of personality forming around him. But Stallin didn't, just some humble public statements.
Oh, do you have private statements or writings where he was secretly supportive of it? Or are you operating entirely divorced from historical research?
Also:
Ignoring this bit i see