25 févr. 1956 - "Secret Speech"

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A report by Khrushchev given to the 20th Congress of the Communist Party. The speech was sharply critical of Stalin, particularly in regards to the purges and the cult of personality.

He condemned Stalin for encouraging the cult of his own personality instead of allowing the Party to rule; revealed the details about Stalin’s purges and the wrongful executions of the 1930s, and criticized his conduct of the war; claimed that socialism could be achieved in ways other than those insisted on by Stalin; suggested that peaceful coexistence with the west was not only possible but essential if nuclear war was to be avoided.

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