"Tumultuous, prolonged applause ending in ovation. All rise." Khrushchev's "Secret Report" and Poland
by Robert Looby
In 1956 Nikita Khrushchev, addressing a closed session of the Twentieth Congress of the Communist Party, did the unthinkable and denounced his predecessor Stalin. The report on the "cult of the individual", which inevitably and quickly leaked out across the Eastern Bloc, was shocking - people were reported to have fainted upon hearing it. Robert Looby takes a look at the report, and the Polish reaction to it at the time...
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