On February 25, 1956 before assembled delegates to the Communist Party’s Twentieth Congress as well as observers from foreign Communist parties, Nikita Khrushchev delivered a speech denouncing Stalin for his transgressions. The speech was “secret” in the sense that it was read in a closed session without discussion and was neither published as part of the congress’ proceedings nor reported in the Soviet press. However, copies were sent to regional party secretaries who were instructed to brief rank-and-file members. Moreover, the US State Department received a copy of the speech from East European sources and soon released it.

This congress is regarded as the “Black Congress” in the history of International Communist Movement, as Khrushchev and his clique were successful in launching coup-d’état and overthrew Beria. Khrushchev distorted the Marxist-Leninist teachings and presented to the world number of “new theses”, i.e. “the peaceful co-existence between two systems”, “peaceful competitions between two system”, “peaceful transition identified with the parliamentary road”. After all in the “secret report “On the Cult of the Individual and its consequences”, that blackened the road pursued by the Bolshevik Party since the death of Lenin.

The speech sent shock waves throughout the Communist world and caused many western Communists to abandon the movement. In Tbilisi, students demonstrated against the removal of a monument to Stalin, Georgia’s native son. In Poland, demonstrations by workers in Poznan over declining wages and deep divisions between recalcitrant Stalinists and anti-Stalinists within the Polish Workers’ Party threatened to engulf the country in crisis, and in Hungary mass demonstrations led to a popular uprising in October 1956. The prime minister, Imre Nagy, sought to regain control through concessions that included abolishing the one-party system and freeing from prison the virulently anticommunist Cardinal Jozsef Mindszenty, but as the insurgency expanded, the Soviet Presidium decided to send in troops. The Hungarian uprising, which occurred simultaneously with the Anglo-French intervention against Egypt over its claims to the Suez Canal, was the most serious crisis in the Soviet bloc until the Prague Spring of 1968. It temporarily weakened Khrushchev in his struggle against the Stalinist stalwarts in the Presidium who conspired, but failed, to oust him in June 1957.

Soviet revisionism

Revisionist "Theories" of Restored Capitalism by Hekuran Mara :albania:

Reactionary anti-communist bourgeois theories that conceal the restoration of capitalism in the Soviet Union :khrushchev-fist:

Che Guevara’s Writings Against Soviet Revisionism :caught-in-4che:

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  • PaulSmackage [he/him, comrade/them]
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    2 years ago

    Seeing so-called "leftists" reflexively defend their time in the army is so funny to me. Just admit that you were willing to support child murder for free college, don't try and excuse yourself from it. And especially don't try to use your experiences then to try and support nati intervention in the ukraine lmao.

    • JamesConeZone [they/them]
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      2 years ago

      Modern culture simply has no way how to deal with material evils done by individuals regardless of intention. It's like you can't have done wrong because you didn't intend on it, so actually it was good not bad because you grew as a person (?). It's such a weird phenomenon

      • PaulSmackage [he/him, comrade/them]
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        2 years ago

        I saw one that said something along the lines of "there was a guy in my unit when i was in Iraq that was known to do horrible things to civilians, but what were we supposed to do? The brass kept it hush-hush, and we would be punished if we tried to stop him? Our hands were tied :powercry-2:" and my reply was just "should've rolled a grenade into his tent while he was sleeping."

        • PaulSmackage [he/him, comrade/them]
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          2 years ago

          Random people on twitter talking about the people they were on deployment like "The guys i was stationed with were pretty cool. There was Pete, fun guy who liked to joyride some of the trucks when he was offduty. There's Trevor, dude would eat anything, even the nastiest, coldest mre's. That's Dan, he ran a gambling den on base. Never lost a game. Great guy. And over there is a guy, i forgot his name, but the press over there calls him 'The Monster of Fallujah'. Kind of a weirdo, but harmless enough." get the fuck out of here.