Speech at the Twentieth Party Congress, 1956

• This Party Congress took place in 1956
• Khrushchev attacked Stalin for his persecution, purge and dictorial rules
• Khrushchev attacks against Stalin led to a process of "De-Stalinization" that began in the USSR and Eastern Europe
• Khrushchev attacks against Stalin led to violent protest against Soviet rules in Poland and Hungary
• Khrushchev attacks against Stalin led to the Western states beeing encourage that Soviet leaders acknowledged teh evil of Stalin's regime
• Khrushchev attacks against Stalin led to Albania and China objecting to the speech and to Khrushchev suggestions that there could be "different roads to Socialism "
• From 1956 , the Communist bloc appeared less united