On the Personality Cult and its Consequences
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On the Personality Cult and its Consequences, commonly known as the Secret Speech or the Khrushchev Report, was a report to the 20th Party Congress on February 25 1956 by Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev, in which he criticized actions taken by the regime of Joseph Stalin, particularly the purges of the military and the upper Party echelons, while maintaining support for the ideals of Communism by invoking Vladimir Lenin.
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