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feb 25, 1956 - Secret Speech

Description:

-Khrushchev: "On the Cult of Personality and Its Consequences"

-meant to be secret (to Communist Party Congress) but spread to Europe by USA

-tensions in Sino-Soviet relations: Khrushchev criticised "cult of personality" in relation to Stalin but attacked Mao by extension, & Mao accused Khrushchev of weakness, revisionism, "giving in" to capitalism etc.

Added to timeline:

Date:

feb 25, 1956
Now
~ 69 years ago