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| The '''Secret Speech''' ("On the Cult of Personality and Its Consequences") was delivered by Nikita Khrushchev in closed session at the XX Party Congress, February 25, 1956 — denouncing Stalin's cult of personality, the Great Terror's excesses, and wartime deportations.
| | #REDIRECT [[Khrushchev: On the Cult of Personality]] |
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| == Content and context ==
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| * Attributed all blame personally to Stalin while exonerating the party system itself — a limited, self-serving critique.
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| * Delivered secretly to Soviet delegates; read to communist parties worldwide within weeks; leaked via Israeli/Polish channels to the West, published by the CIA June 1956.
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| == Consequences ==
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| * Destabilized world communism overnight: the Polish October, the Hungarian Uprising (crushed November 1956), mass resignations from Western parties, the Sino-Soviet split deepening as Mao rejected de-Stalinization as revisionism.
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| * Established the template of "destalinization": reform communism from above, which culminated in Gorbachev — Khrushchev's critique of Stalin was, as the Maoists said, the first step toward the restoration of capitalism (see [[Socialism With a Human Face]]).
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| == Infrared treatment ==
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| Haz Al-Din treats the Secret Speech as the hinge of Soviet degeneration: the moment the party replaced class analysis with bureaucratic self-exculpation, opening the door to both liberal capitulation and hollow dogmatism.
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| == See also ==
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| * [[Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev]]
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| * [[Yezhovshchina]]
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| * [[Socialism With a Human Face]]
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| == References ==
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| [[Category:Soviet Union]][[Category:History]]
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