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Yankees will build shit like this and cry about "personality cults" without a hint of irony.
for how much of a personality cult stalin supposedly had, they didn't carve him into any mountains
no, but they did name steel after him.
Changsha has a stone monument to Mao Zedong who was born nearby, but stone was mined elsewhere and then assembled here. Zhengzhou has an actual stone carving of two mythical emperors that traditionally represent the "founding fathers" of Chinese civilisation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yan_Huang_Zisun
Maybe it is just because it isn't as weathered, but that Mao statue looks way better than Mt. Rushmore.
Especially later on, he certainly had a personality cult and, while it's not carved into a mountain, they did have big stone monuments to him:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stalin_Monument_%28Prague%29
While I think the cult was a case of severe personal and strategic wrongheadedness on the part of Stalin and many others, I certainly would not equivocate between him or his admirers and those of especially the worse three heads on Rushmore.