Delivering+the+message+Mao+and+Stalin

=Delivering the Message =
 *  Why is the delivery of the message is important for a single party state leader?
 * While the message the single party state leader has and his platform may be important, how it is delivered is arguably more important.
 * If the population does not know of the message, how can they support it and how can they support the leader?
 * The message or ideology under the message may be disguised by how it is delivered.
 * If people like the way they are being treated or feel good when something is proposed to them, they are more inclined to support the topic and less inclined to question it.
 * Mao
 * He reformed education and promoted himself through the brainwashing of the youth.
 *  He took control of all the media in the country and promoted propaganda like posters of himself throughout the country.

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 * He spread his message by giving speeches and through word of mouth between citizens.
 * He distributed his Little Red Book that contained all his revolutionary ideals for everyone to read.
 * By eliminating his opposition, he ensured that no other ideas or revolutionary thoughts besides his own reached the public.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">"The reactionaries must be deprived of the right to voice their opinion." -Mao
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">"Execution means fundamental physical elimination of counterrevolutionaries, and is of course the most thorough measure for depriving counter-revolutionaries of the conditions for counterrevolutionary activity." - a lieutenant of Mao


 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Stalin
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">He reformed education and ensured that teachers would teach of his greatness and support him so that the youth would grow up supporting him.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">He eliminated his opposition originally with Trotsky, but also with the purges so that the oppositions message of dissent did not reach the public.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Stalin also used the NKVD and MVD police forces to carry out terror and oppression to ensure everyone understood their place and role.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">He associated himself with Lenin and his cult of personality through speeches and propaganda.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Since Lenin's message was already known and supported, association with Lenin helped Stalin's cause.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Stalin rewrote history to give himself a greater role in the revolution and a more favorable image of himself.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Comparison
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Both Mao and Stalin used terror and oppression to eliminate opposition, but Mao was more open about his tactics.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">They used the education system, media and propaganda in similar ways to get their message to the public.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Mao didn't associated himself with a prior ruler's cult of personality.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">In a lot of ways Mao followed in Stalin's footsteps and borrowed his techniques.