Khrushchev's Secret Speech
February 25, 1956 · Kremlin, Moscow
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Speech to a closed session of the 20th Party Congress in which Khrushchev denounced Stalin's personality cult and crimes. It began de-Stalinisation and shook communist parties worldwide.
