"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. He said that Stalin quickly gave up and stopped overseeing military operations and that he planned military operations on a globe.[3]
Reactions
In Georgia, Stalin's homeland, students protested against Khrushchev for five days until the military arrived.[3]
See also
References
- ↑ 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]
- ↑ 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
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Domenico Losurdo (2019). Stalin: The History and Critique of a Black Legend: 'How to Cast a God into Hell: The Khrushchev Report' (pp. 13–4). [PDF] [LG]