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The Speech that Shook the Kremlin
On 25 February, 1956, Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev denounced Joseph Stalin
On 25 February, 1956, Nikita Khrushchev made a speech to the 20th Communist Party Congress in the security of the Kremlin that split the country down the middle: he denounced Joseph Stalin, the brutal Soviet leader who had helped defeat Hitler, in a speech that "broke a god".
This is the story of how the contents of this speech reached the world.
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