Ferdinand Marcos's cult of personality

Ferdinand Marcos developed a cult of personality in order to stay in power for 20 years as president of the Philippines, a dictatorship marked by political corruption and human rights violations. His administration’s personalist ideology and policies, combining veneration and idolization of Marcos himself with extreme populism and ultranationalism, have been compared to those of other totalitarian and authoritarian leaders such as Joseph Stalin and Adolf Hitler, as well as to those of more recent dictators and autocrats such as Suharto in Indonesia, Saddam Hussein in Iraq, and North Korea’s Kim dynasty.

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