De-Stalinization
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De-Stalinization comprised a series of political reforms in the Soviet Union after the death of long-time leader Joseph Stalin in 1953, and the thaw brought about by the ascension of Nikita Khrushchev
A badly-damaged head of the Stalin Monument in Budapest during the Hungarian Revolution of 1956
O kulcie jednostki i jego następstwach, Warsaw, March 1956, first edition of the Secret Speech, published for the inner use in the Polish United Workers' Party
The Statue of Stalin in Yerevan was removed in 1962 and replaced by Mother Armenia in 1967.
"On the Cult of Personality and Its Consequences" was a speech given by Nikita Khrushchev, the leader of the Soviet Union, on February 25, 1956. It was formally a report by the First Secretary of the
De-Stalinization
…the death of long-time leader Joseph Stalin in 1953, and the thaw brought about by the ascension of Nikita Khrushchev to power, and his 1956 speech "On the Cult of Personality and Its Consequences", which denounced Stalin's cult of personality and the Stalinist political system. Monuments to Stalin were removed, his name was removed from places…
Nikita Khrushchev 1962