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Monday, February 27, 2006
The Speech that Shook the Kremlin
On Feb. 25, 1956, Nikita Khrushchev took the podium on the final day of the 20th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. The speech he gave was so surprising and unexpected that some members of the audience fainted. Officially, the speech was an attack on the cult of personality that had grown up around Stalin. But the full text went even further. Heard on BBC Radio 4.
