Alleged Neo-Stalinist Countries
Some socialist groups describe modern China as "neo-Stalinist."
21st-century North Korea has been described by Western sources as a "neo-Stalinist state", although it has completely replaced Marxism-Leninism with Juche since first adopting it as the official ideology in the 1970s, with references to Marxism-Leninism altogether scrapped from the revised state constitution in 1992.
By the end of the 20th and the beginning of the 21st century, Turkmenistan’s Saparmurat Niyazov regime was sometimes considered a neo-Stalinist one (especially regarding his cult of personality). Islam Karimov's non-communist authoritarian regime in Uzbekistan has also been widely described as "neo-Stalinist."
Read more about this topic: Neo-Stalinism
Famous quotes containing the words alleged and/or countries:
“About the alleged condition of the property. Does it have to be intact?”
—Margaret Forster, British screenwriter, Peter Nichols, and Silvio Narizzano. Georgy (Lynn Redgrave)
“Do not require a description of the countries towards which you sail. The description does not describe them to you, and to- morrow you arrive there, and know them by inhabiting them.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)