Stalin’s Soviet Union · TURNING POINT ·
Khrushchev’s Secret Speech (1956)
On the Stalin’s Soviet Union map as “The Secret Speech”
25 Feb 1956 — In a closed session of the Twentieth Party Congress in the Kremlin, Nikita Khrushchev denounced Stalin’s “cult of personality”, the terror against loyal communists and the deportation of whole nations. He said nothing about collectivisation or the famines.
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- Death of Stalin and de-Stalinisation (chapter 12 of Stalin’s Soviet Union)
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- The Soviet Union under Stalin, 1924–1953
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