desalinisation

• points of 'the cult of the individual and its consequences' speech:

  • stalin was never accepted by Lenin as a potential leader
  • stalin had created a state that was unprepared for military conflict in 1941
  • stalin had committed a range of unforgivable crimes against people
• political prisoners were released from labor camps soon after Stalin's death
• censorship was relaxed which related in the publication of articles, novels and plays that criticised stalin
• the legacy of the cult of personality was gotten rid of to remove anything that.worshipped stain
• after the initial shock of the secret speech de-stalainisation was liked which was had a resemblance to that occurred with Alex II's reforms
• there were strikes such as newly released prisoners form the gulags, riots and protests for even greater freedoms especially from the satellite states but Khrushchev resisted the temptation to use violence to deal with the unrest
• order was maintained through the MVD which was under the control of the party