Secret Speech, Khrushchev

• Nikita Khrushchev was the fisrt secretary of the Communist party, and the premier of the Soviet Union


• He delivered a famous speech to an unofficial, closed session of the 20th Party Congress on February 25, 1956


• The speech was considered confidential, but it was soon leaked to soldiers


• In the speech Khrushchev safeguarded the moral authority of Lenin


• However, he attacked Stalin, who had died three years earlier


• Khrushchev revealed some of the crimes committed by him and his closest associates in the 1930s