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On the Cult of Personality and Its Consequences (Russian: «О культе личности и его последствиях», «O kul'te lichnosti i yego posledstviyakh»), popularly known as the Secret Speech (Russian: секретный доклад Хрущёва, sekretnïy doklad Khrushcheva), was a report by Soviet leader Nikita ...
Khrushchev’s secret speech (February 25, 1956), in Russian history, denunciation of the deceased Soviet leader Joseph Stalin made by Nikita Khrushchev to a closed session of the 20th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
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By Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev, First Secretary, Communist Party of the Soviet Union. Western intelligence agencies had no difficulties obtaining the "Secret Speech" shortly after it was delivered. Translated into English, possibly by Russian speakers working in West Germany for the CIA, it was disseminated widely outside the Soviet bloc.
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In 1956 Khrushchev delivered his famous 'Secret Speech', condemning Stalin's use of brutality, condemning his personality cult and accusing him of errors.
Dec 3, 2020 · How the U.S. reacted to and exploited the denunciation of Stalin by Nikita Khrushchev at the Twentieth Party Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. See documents, background, and analysis from the National Archives.
The Secret Speech is the second novel in a trilogy by British author Tom Rob Smith; it was released in April 2009. The book features a repeat appearance of Leo Stepanovich Demidov, the protagonist of Smith's first book, Child 44 (2008).
On February 24, 1956 before assembled delegates to the Communist Party’s Twentieth Congress as well as observers from foreign Communist parties, Nikita Khrushchev delivered a speech denouncing Stalin for his transgressions.
