It was impossible to ignore the pressure from the detainees themselves, which is gradually increased. There have been disturbances in Vorkuta. In Norilsk the mine “Capital” an uprising of prisoners, some of whom managed to arm themselves. The uprising was brutally suppressed. Hundreds of people died. Even larger waves began in the camps of Kazakhstan. Large-scale and lasted for over a month uprising broke out in Kengir. It was suppressed with the use of tank units. It became apparent that the problem of the camps should be solved as quickly as possible.
In discussing the draft of the Report of the Central Committee, Khrushchev proposed to include a special section on the personality cult and its consequences. This proposal of the Central Committee rejected the insistence of Molotov Koganovicha, Voroshilov. Khrushchev had intended to give the floor to debate two or three recently rehabilitated party workers. But this was rejected …
The Twentieth Party Congress opens on Feb. 14, 1956. Compared to the nineteenth congress of delegates significantly updated to reflect significant changes in the composition of the party and state leadership at all levels. No special procedures in the memory of the “great father and teacher” was conducted. On the proposal has opened the congress Khrushchev, delegates paid tribute to the memory of standing once the three “most prominent figures of the communist movement”: IV Stalin, Klement Gottwald and Kyuntsi Tokuda. Neither the report nor in the first speeches of the delegates did not contain any of praise addressed to Stalin.
Make it more specific, effective party leadership in industry and agriculture, useful thing. But the disconnect, razyat party and its apparatus meant to cut the branch on which you sit.
Khrushchev let down and traditional, absorbed in the Stalin years vozhdistskaya psychology, unwillingness to take seriously the collective leadership. The wrestler with the cult of personality he was a victim. Uncritical attitude toward himself, thanking the connivance of his address, narcissism undermine the credibility of Khrushchev, served as food for the bad jokes and anecdotes.
The greatness of Khrushchev that he decided to tell the truth about Stalin’s crimes and headed for the update, the incarnation of socialism. His weakness, inconsistency, vacillation, the belief in his own infallibility. He could not stand test of power and lost