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Nikita Khrushchev's secret speech - 1956
Posted on Thursday, October 30 @ 19:07:18 CST by spno |
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 Speech to the 20th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union by Khrushchev.
The slave labour camps in the USSR and the bureacractic mismanagement of the economy were leading to a backsliding of society and potential opposition from below. Khrushchev, who himself had been in the top leadership during the purges of the 1930s, had to act to distance himself from Stalin as a means of survival.
Khrushchev's earthshattering speech had a huge impact on stattering the remaining illusions in Stalinism amongst workers and peasants worldwide.
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