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On the Cult of Personality and Its Consequences
1956 speech by Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev
On the Cult of Personality and Its Consequences
"On the Cult of Personality and Its Consequences" (Russian: «О культе личности и его последствиях», romanized: "O kul'te lichnosti i yego posledstviyakh") 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 Communist Party of the Soviet Union (a position held by Khrushchev) to the 20th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. It is popularly known as the Secret Speech (Russian: секретный доклад Хрущёва, romanized: sekretnyi doklad Khrushchyova) because the session was not open to journalists or non-party members, and the Central Committee classified it as "not for publication". Copies of the speech were read out at thousands of local meetings of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU) and Komsomol organizations across the USSR, so its general content was widely known. The full text circulated informally and was published in the West within weeks, but was not published in...
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