The secret speech…On the Cult of Personality February 25, 2013
Posted by WorldbyStorm in The Left.trackback
…delivered this day, 25th February 1956 by Nikita Kruschev. The text is here.
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http://www.erythrospress.com/store/furr.html
Grover Furr, Stalinism’s answer to David Irving.
Isn’t the Internet great, dr x ! You can hide behind your monicker and throw insults around without feeling the need to base them on anything approaching a fact. What did you practice before the Internet? Primal Scream?
“What did you practice before the Internet?”
My wife and I use a large vibrating egg.
Wasn’t expecting that! Sounds great.
Sit down man, you’re a bloody tragedy.
Huh? Back to the ussr, are we? Anyway, Eggs is better than ad hominems.
So Khruschev wasn’t a Stalinist nor the USSR from 1956.
So all those years of insults to fellow-socialists were wasted?
It’s getting harder to know which dead Russian to follow nowadays.
Interesting questions, I haven’t a definitive answer but I’d hesitantly suggest it was decreasingly Stalinist from 1956 onwards at least in terms of political practice.
But I think the speech itself is important because of what it represented in terms of a genuinely (albeit flawed) self-critical moment in the history of the USSR.
http://soundcloud.com/oireachtasretort/big-other
Everything you ever needed to know about the USSR, but were afraid to ask: http://itsrainingmensheviks.tumblr.com
Hmmm… strangely brilliant.