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On the Cult of Personality and Its Consequences

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"On the Cult of Personality and Its Consequences", commonly known as the Secret Speech, was a speech by Nikita Khrushchev at the 20th Congress of the CPSU. It slandered Joseph Stalin and called him a dictator.[1] Molotov, Malenkov, Kaganovich, and Voroshilov said it gave an unbalanced account of Stalin. In 1957, the Presidium voted 7 to 3 (with one abstention) to remove Khrushchev from power, but Khrushchev said only the Central Committee could remove him. The Central Committee then expelled Molotov, Malenkov, and Kaganovich from positions of power.[2]

Claims

Khrushchov claimed that Stalin assassinated Kirov as a false flag attack and that he did not prepare well for the Second World War.[3]

See also

References

  1. Domenico Losurdo (2019). Stalin: The History and Critique of a Black Legend: 'The Turning Point in the Historical Depiction of Stalin' (p. 8). [PDF] [LG]
  2. Roger Keeran, Thomas Kenny (2010). Socialism Betrayed: Behind the Collapse of the Soviet Union: 'Two Trends in Soviet Politics' (pp. 27–32). [PDF] iUniverse.com. ISBN 9781450241717
  3. Domenico Losurdo (2019). Stalin: The History and Critique of a Black Legend: 'How to Cast a God into Hell: The Khrushchev Report' (p. 13). [PDF] [LG]