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We houm, Welcome to the Russian rulers history podcast, episode 92, the Hungarian Revolution.

Well, I'm happy to say that I'm able to do today's podcast.

This past week I had a surgery done on my Achilles tendon for a tear and some bone spurs.

The only problem was they put me under general anesthetics and they had to put a trachea tube down on my throat which really made

it awfully scratchy for quite a while until today where I woke up and for the first time I actually

had my full voice back.

Hopefully it doesn't break during this podcast,

but I think we're good to go.

So let's get at it.

Last time, we recounted Nikita Sergeiovich Krustjov's rise to Stalin's inner circle,

presaging his eventual ascension to the position of sole ruler of the Soviet Union.

Now let's leap forward to the year in 1955 and the speech that would shake the communist

world, the so-called secret speech given at the 20th party Congress in Moscow, condemning Joseph Stalin's 30 years of rule

over the USSR.

Now, many historians look back at the speech and view it as the bravest moment in Khrushchev's life.

While this is certainly true, the ramifications of it would cause major crises to occur throughout the communist world that were definitely not foreseen

by those who put the speech together and certainly not by the man who gave the speech. It would also show the vulnerability and weakness of the men

that Stalin had left to run the country. Many historians also point to the speech as the beginning

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