political reform launched at the 20th Party Congress (February 1956) by Soviet Communist Party First Secretary Nikita Khrushchev that condemned the crimes committed by his predecessor, Joseph Stalin, destroyed Stalin's image as an infallible leader, and promised a return to so-called socialist
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to get rid of the "cult of personality" of Stalin and the Stalinist system.
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to purge the country of Stalin's Memory (:
The leader of the Soviet Union who initiated destalinization was Nikita Khrushchev. He came to power after Joseph Stalin's death in 1953 and denounced Stalin's repressive policies during his famous "Secret Speech" in 1956. Khrushchev's efforts aimed to reform the Communist Party and reduce the intensity of the oppressive practices associated with Stalin's regime. This period marked significant changes in Soviet domestic and foreign policies.
Destalinization refers to the political and social process of eliminating the influence and policies associated with Joseph Stalin from the Soviet Union and its satellite states after his death in 1953. It involved denouncing Stalin's repressive practices, promoting a more liberal governance approach, and rehabilitating those who had been persecuted under his regime. This process was notably marked by Nikita Khrushchev's "Secret Speech" in 1956, which criticized Stalin's cult of personality and the excesses of his rule. Destalinization aimed to reform the Communist Party and encourage a more open society, though it faced significant resistance and complexities.
They were trained to hate him through the process of destalinization, in which his name was removed from every place of honor, his likeness was erased from the public eye and his crimes were made public. And that took a while; Stalin was easily as bad as Hitler.
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After Stalin's death, Nikita Khrushchev was the dominant next Soviet leader. He and more moderate Soviet leader allowed satellite countries more independence, as long as they remained allied powers with the Soviet Union. This changed the perspectives in many of the eastern European countries as they slowly started active protests. Hungary and Czechoslovakia were from the first countries that started revolutions. Generally, the satellite countries, which included Georgia and other eastern European countries, were able to form their own government after their encounter with the rampage of Russian Communism.
On the 20th of August 1968, troops and tanks from the Soviet Union and other members of the Warsaw pact invaded Czechoslovakia. This brought an immediate change in relations between the Soviet Union and Czechoslovakia and was due to increasing opposition to communism within Czechoslovakia, leading to reforms under Dubcek, and the reactions of Moscow to these reforms. The first reason for a change in relations was the growth of opposition in Czechoslovakia to Soviet control. This was due to what the Soviet Union had done in 1948, they murdered Jan Masaryk. Once Jan was killed the elections were rigged and they put Antonin Novotny in power from 1957. Antonin was very unpopular amongst the Czechs as he was a hard-line communist who followed closely in the Soviet Union's footsteps and wouldn't introduce reform no matter what the Czechs wanted. He was very slow to flow Khrushchev's destalinization policy but he took much longer to release political prisoners who were jailed because of Stalin. This all caused more people to oppose the Soviet Union. Furthermore the Soviets were concerned because: they didn't want the new ideas from Czechoslovakia to spread, Czechoslovakia was becoming closer to West Germany and industrial relations between West Germany and Czechoslovakia were improving. In 1968 on the 20-21 of August hundreds of thousands of Soviet troops along with troops from Bulgaria, East Germany, Poland and Hungary and were greeted with petrol bombs being thrown at them, as well as, buildings being set on fire, protestors assembling in Wenceslas Square, barricades being set up in streets, students tearing down street names to confuse invaders, students climbing into the tanks to try and argue with the Soviet soldiers as they were so desperate and the anti-Soviet broadcasters kept on broadcasting by moving from hiding place to hiding place but there wasn't any resistance by the Czechoslovakian army as they were ordered not to fight back and so around 100 people died, another thing that happened in 1968 was Dubcek and the other leaders being arrested and escorted to Moscow. These had consequences like the demonstrations, which continued going until April 1969, the Czech communist party being purged and the Brezhnev document - this doctrine redefined communism as a one-party system and declared that all member countries had to remain part of the Warsaw Pact