Nikita Khrushchev's Secret Speech, 1956



Nikita Khrushchev's Secret Speech, 1956

Source Analysis

The speech of 1956 seems to be liberating and so shocking in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe for considering seriously and analyzing appropriately the crimes of Stalin's era so that there could be taken some preventions to repeat any form of those things who happened during the Stalin's life. This purpose of this speech was to oppose the practices of brutal violence.

Khrushchev suggested the changes in Soviet politics that Stalin showed so many cases regarding his intolerance, his abusive power, and his brutality. As he chosen the way of oppression and physical obliteration not just against enemies but against those individuals as well who did not commit any type of crimes against the Soviet Government and party. She recommended in that regard to communist that they would have to made condemnations of Stalin more severely and even called for an election of multi-party (Schwartz, 1971).

Khrushchev contrasted communism with Stalinism by describing the damages which were done by the personality Cult of Joseph Stalin, and the oppressions, as that killed and traumatized millions of individual in Soviet Union. Khrushchev initiated remedies to restore the reputation of millions of naive victims who were imprisoned or killed under the Stalin's Great Purge.

From the author's point of view, this topic of 'secret' speech featured the discussion in order to take initiatives against the Nazi's military strategies. All the strategies of Stalin depicted his statement that he was amongst the crowd of officials as being British, Soviet, and American. This source tells us about the suspicion and feeling that derived by forging the idea about Stalin that he won the war by himself lonely. It shows his confidence and calmness, even in the hard times of Nazi's invasion. Another theme, which is generated from this speech, was the dedication of Soviet Union's triumph such as preventing prisoners from the camps, and the prevalence of Soviet Air force in the skies and then eventually rising of Soviet flag.

Answers of the Questions

After the World War II, there were some obvious affects of fighting a major warfare. In fact, some of those affects were on temporarily basis, while others influenced the political conditions and later cultural trends such as gas and other kinds of rationing, and the suspension of several constitutional rights etc. According to a point of view, there could be three main ...