15h 37min, feb 26, 1956 y - Khruschev's 'Secret Speech'
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Wanted to achieve long term political stability and redefine his relation with the satellite states, and improve the economic growth and living conditions of the USSR through de-Stalinisation.
This speech reported on Stalin's Crimes.
De-Stalinisation
Stalinist system was the removal of personality within the Eastern Bloc, centralised planning and a one party political state, secret police and the press censorship. De-Stalinisation involved the removal of some or most of these controls.
Led to uprisings in Poland and Hungary
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