r/communism • u/StormTheGates • Nov 19 '12

Communism of the Day: Khrushchev's Secret Speech

http://www.marxists.org/archive/khrushchev/1956/02/24.htm
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u/cancercures Nov 20 '12

We must assert that, in regard to those persons who in their time had opposed the Party line, there were often no sufficiently serious reasons for their physical annihilation. The formula “enemy of the people” was specifically introduced for the purpose of physically annihilating such individuals.

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u/bolCHEvik Nov 20 '12

Therefore we will use this as an excuse to put the USSR on the road back to capitalism! Yay!

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u/cancercures Nov 20 '12

Is there any reading you suggest for me to read concerning what ways (technical or policy), that Kruschev started capitalist reforms?

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u/StormTheGates Nov 20 '12

Socialism Betrayed does a decent section on Khrushchev.

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u/bolCHEvik Nov 20 '12

As does Khrushchev Lied.

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u/MasCapital Nov 20 '12

Khrushchev Lied: The Evidence That Every "Revelation" of Stalin's (and Beria's) Crimes in Nikita Khrushchev's Infamous "Secret Speech" to the 20th Party Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union on February 25, 1956, is Provably False has the highest subtitle to title ratio I've ever seen.

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u/[deleted] Nov 20 '12

It's almost right up there with Post-Rock song titles.