According to the document supported at a party convention held this week, the criticism of Stalin's era and his policies leveled by his successor, Nikita Khrushchev, was “misdirected” and “politically motivated.” In its resolution, the CPRF distanced itself from Khrushchev’s assessment of what he called Stalin’s “personality cult.” In 1956, Khrushchev, who himself played a significant role in the political oppression of the Great Terror – a period of mass repressions in the USSR in the 1930s – denounced during a famous Communist Party congress the crimes of his former boss and the cult of personality he cultivated during his reign. “Stalin is a symbol of victory, the commonwealth of fraternal nations, the power and greatness of the Power that ensured peace in the world and kept it from World War III,” the head of the local party branch, Vladislav Yegorov, said at the time.
Author: RT
Published at: 2025-07-05 21:37:42
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