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An inseparable element of the Stalinist system was the transference of the cult of Joseph Stalin, binding in the USSR. The cult in question was deprived of all sources of inner and social acceptance, and thus remained superficial and alien. The authorities maintained it despite Stalin's death in March 1953. One of the symptoms of their policy was renaming Katowice as Stalinogród (similar changes of...