Tag #142657 - Interview #95027 (Yuri Fiedelgolts)

I still lived in Karaganda, when Nikita Khrushchev [43] exposed Stalin’s crimes on ХХ party congress [44]. I took Khrushchev’s speech like a sip of spring water making me clean. I read his report, published in the papers, over and over again and almost knew it by heart. Some of the teachers suggested that I should make the report to the students using the materials of the congress, and I willingly undertook the task. No matter how hard they blame Khrushchev for the coming events during his reign, I think that he could be forgiven merely because of the Twentieth Party Congress. It was a great step.