Khrushchev's Secret Speech

Thesis: In a secret speech to the Party Congress three years after Stalin's death, Khrushchev attacked Stalin, revealing some of the awful crimes that had been committed during his rule.

• Stalin was brutal toward everything that opposed him and contrary to his concepts


• Stalin did not use persuasion and co-operation with the people, but imposed his ideas and demanded absolute submission of the people to his way.


• Many prominent party members, honest and dedicated to Communism, fell victim to his despotism.


• His concept "enemy of the people" rendered it unneccessary that any kind of ideological errors of a man engaged in controversy be proven.


• "Confessions" were acquired through physical pressures on the accused.


• Glaring violations of revolutionary legality


• Large quantity of materials from the secret police revealed fabrication of cases, leading to deaths of innocent victims.


• Lenin used severe methods only in the most necessary cases, but Stalin used it when the Communist state was already strong.


• Stalin used repression and physical annihilation instead of mobilizing the masses.


• The False Accusations and slaughter of Comrade Eikhe, who refused to confess to any crime, is a great example of glaring violation of Soviet power and false condemnation.