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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  • ClassUpperMiddle [they/them]
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    2 years ago

    It's okay to find CWC's awkward adolescence funny especially as they moved on from their racism and bigotry. You're not demeaning their character or making a statement about people with autism or who are trans by finding that period of their life funny. Stop trying to pick a fight and seeing everything so black and white.

    • CatEars420 [they/them]
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      2 years ago

      stop seeing everything in black and white

      I will do a self crit and explore the nuances in a kiwi farms modern human zoo of a disabled person. Do you have any theory to suggest?

      • ClassUpperMiddle [they/them]
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        2 years ago

        Please stop talking to me, grow up. Not everything is so black and white, Christine was a huge racist and homophobe in their early days and her antics were gross and finding their absolutely unprompted acts funny doesn't make me a fascist grow the fuck up.

        • CatEars420 [they/them]
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          2 years ago

          let me laugh at this disabled person :angery:

          Why are you calling me fash for laughing at this disabled person with all these other fash?