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."
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