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de-Stalinization: Quick Facts

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Facts

Date 1956
Location Russia
Context history of Hungary • history of Poland

Key People

Nikita Khrushchev smiling and wearing a suit with medals on the lapel, shown from the chest up in a black and white photograph.
Nikita Khrushchev
premier of Soviet Union
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Grigory Ivanovich Tunkin
Russian scholar and diplomat