Khrushchev Denounces Stalin

Date: February 25, 1956 • Location: Moscow, Russia

In a speech to the 20th Congress of the Communist Party, Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev denounced the personality cult and dictatorship of his predecessor Joseph Stalin.

"On the Cult of Personality and Its Consequences" was a speech given by Nikita Khrushchev, the leader of the Soviet Union, on February 25, 1956. It was formally a report by the First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union to the 20th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.