 The admiration for Mao Zedong has remained widespread in China.In December 2013, a "Global Times" poll revealed that over 85% of Chinese viewed Mao's achievements as outweighing his mistakes.Jan Plamper argues while Napoleon III made some innovations it was Benito Mussolini in Italy in the 1920s who originated the model of dictator-as-cult-figure that was emulated by Hitler, Stalin and the others, using the propaganda powers of a totalitarian state.