The Secret Speech – On the Cult of Personality

The Secret Speech – On the Cult of Personality, 1956

Secret Speech Delivered by First Party Secretary at the Twentieth Party Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, February 25, 1956[]Comrades, in the report of the Central Committee of the party at the 20th Congress, in a number of speeches by delegates to the Congress, as also formerly during the plenary CC/CPSU sessions, quite a lot has been said about the cult of the individual and about its harmful consequences. . . .Allow me first of all to remind you bow severely the classics of Marxism-Leninism denounced every manifestation of the cult of the individual. In a letter to the German political worker, Wilhelm Bloss, Marx stated: “From my antipathy to any cult of the individual, I never made public during the existence of the International the numerous addresses from various countries which recognized my merits and which annoyed me.

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The secret speech, although subsequently read to groups of party activists and closed local party meetings, was never officially made public. Not until 1989 was the speech printed in full in the Soviet Union. Nonetheless, it caused shock and disillusionment throughout the Soviet Union and the Soviet bloc……………………………..

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