Khrushchev's Secret speech obliterated Stalin's Cult of Personality and began the widespread movement to dismantle Stalinist influences in the Soviet government. This process was referred to as de-Stalinization. After the speech, Khrushchev worked tirelessly to expose the many crimes of Stalin.
"At present, we are concerned with a question which has immense importance for the Party now and for the future – with how the cult of the person of Stalin has been gradually growing, the cult which became at a certain specific stage the source of a whole series of exceedingly serious and grave perversions of Party principles, of Party democracy, of revolutionary legality." ~Nikita Khrushchev
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