Nikita Sergeyevich Khruschev14 February 1956
Makes a speech in closed session demolishing Stalins supposed infallibility
Russia · Government / Government of Russia. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.
Makes a speech in closed session demolishing Stalins supposed infallibility
Denounces Stalin as a criminal & that unreconstructed Stalinists are no better
During the Twentieth Party Congress Krushcev attacks Stalins cult of the individual
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