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Khrushchev resigns, with Mao, Nasser, shakes fist at UN, pounds desk, Brezhnev to take over, "the red in the gray flannel suit", Brezhnev speaks (partial newsreel) Date 15 October 1964
The Secret Speech did not fundamentally change Soviet society but had wide-ranging effects. The speech was a factor in unrest in Poland and revolution in Hungary later in 1956, and Stalin defenders led four days of rioting in his native Georgia in June, calling for Khrushchev to resign and Molotov to take over. [133]
De-Stalinization meant an end to the role of large-scale forced labour in the economy. The process of freeing Gulag prisoners was started by Lavrentiy Beria. He was soon removed from power, arrested on 26 June 1953, and executed on 24 December 1953. Khrushchev emerged as the most powerful Soviet politician. [3]
The same evening, the delegates of foreign communist parties were called to the Kremlin and given the opportunity to read the prepared text of the Khrushchev speech, which was treated as a top secret state document. [11] On 1 March, the text of the Khrushchev speech was distributed in printed form to senior Central Committee functionaries. [12]
The speech prompted the envoys from twelve NATO nations and Israel to leave the room. [4] [5] [6] During Khrushchev's visit to the United States in 1959, the Los Angeles mayor Norris Poulson in his address to Khrushchev stated We do not agree with your widely quoted phrase 'We shall bury you.' You shall not bury us and we shall not bury you.
Not everyone was ready to accept Khrushchev's new line. Communist Albanian leader Enver Hoxha, for instance, strongly condemned Khrushchev as "revisionist" and severed diplomatic relations. [3] The speech was also seen as a catalyst for the anti-Soviet uprisings in Poland and Hungary of 1956, and was seen as a "major stimulus" to the Sino ...
The speech that Russian President Vladimir Putin made on Wednesday ... which suffered for years after a posthumous denunciation in 1956 by Khrushcheva’s great-grandfather Nikita Khrushchev, ...
Khrushchev claimed that communist education intends to free consciousness from religious prejudices and superstitions. [8]One of the first manifestations of the campaign, as had occurred in the 1920s, was the removal of practicing believers from the teaching profession.