Cold War · TURNING POINT ·
Khrushchev’s Secret Speech (1956)
On the Cold War map as “The Secret Speech”
25 Feb 1956 — Khrushchev denounces Stalin’s crimes to a closed party congress. Delegates faint; Eastern Europe hears “reform is possible” — Budapest tests how much.
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- Turning point
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- Hungary 1956 and the Berlin Wall (chapter 5 of Cold War)
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- The Cold War, 1945–1991
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- Stalin’s Soviet Union
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