Central Asian Leaders Cultivate Personality Cults, Often Erasing Past Figures

In Central Asia, leaders are often lauded with songs and poems, portrayed as the wisest and most deserving. However, upon a change in power, former leaders are quickly forgotten. State media in Uzbekistan, for instance, attributed nearly all post-Soviet achievements to former President Islam Karimov, who was hailed as the 'great son of the Uzbek people'.

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