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German communist leader who ruled East Germany under tight Soviet control, building the Berlin Wall in 1961, collectivizing the economy, and repressing dissent under Stasi surveillance and single-party rule.
Political topics
Walter Ulbricht leans further toward autocracy than 95% of the 569 personalities in the catalog.
Of all the topics, Representation is where Walter Ulbricht stands furthest from the rest.
On Morality, Walter Ulbricht sits practically at the catalog median.
Here they share common ground with most personalities.
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Current that combines a planned socialist economy with a strong national identity, prioritizing the sovereignty and interests of its own country over internationalism, often under personalist and centralized leadership.
North Korean doctrine formulated by Kim Il-sung that combines state socialism, national self-reliance, single-party rule, supreme leadership, militarization and rejection of external dependence, subordinating economy and society to the sovereignty of the regime.
Regime that fuses fascism's authoritarian aesthetics and hierarchy, with a strong leader, order and national discipline, to a socialist economy of collectivization, nationalized enterprise and central planning of the means of production.
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Progressive LibertarianismLibertarian33%
Leader of the Chinese Revolution and founder of the People's Republic, Mao adapted Marxism to the peasantry through people's war, collectivization, and the permanent mobilization of the masses in campaigns of radical transformation.
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China's largest directly administered municipality, Chongqing combines heavy industry, a car-making base and freight trains to Europe with Bo Xilai's "Chongqing model" (public housing, anti-crime campaign, "red songs"), ended in 2012.
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The German Democratic Republic was a socialist state aligned with the Soviet Union, with single-party rule, an extensive political police, a planned economy, rigid social control, state secularization, and military integration into the Eastern Bloc.
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