"It was the first bit of the freedom of the society.You are now not openly to criticize the government, but you can criticize and you’ll not be arrested. It was the beginning of the publication of the different poems and novels that were wrote during the Stalin’s time, and it was a period of the new generation of the poets and writers and the filmmakers who felt themselves more freedom to say what they wanted and not be just a normal person today and tomorrow be arrested without any explanation."
~ Sergei Khrushchev "The explicit discrediting of Stalinism was an implicit call for reform throughout the communist world. To the extent that what was still said and done in that world that represented Stalin's illegitimate prescriptions could no longer be justified. The names of men he had condemned to disgrace or oblivion had to be restored to good fame. His self-serving falsifications of history had to be corrected. The elements of the personal dictatorship associated with the 'cult of personality' had been eliminated."
~ Louis J. Halle |
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