feb 1, 1956 - Khrushchev's "Secret Speech"

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Attacks many of Stalin’s crimes against the CPSU; proclaims that international war is “not fatalistically inevitable;” that countries may take “separate roads” to socialism; that the breakup of European colonialism is a world-historical event and that there now exists a “zone of peace” that includes former European colonies.

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