Khrushchev - Secret Speech

Khrushchev in his secret speech revealed some of the evils behind Stalin's power

• Stalin was intolerable to anyone who opposed his ideas and demanded for complete obedience of the people in accordance to his ideas
• Stalin veered away from passive methods such as persuasion
• Lots of corruption and many people fell to despotism
• "Stalin originated the conce't of "enemy of the people"
• "Stalin used extremem methods and mass repessions at a time when the revolution was already victorious"
• Lenin, unlike stalin, used severe methods only in the most necessary cases