February 25, 1956. Khrushchev read a report "On the Personality Cult and Its Consequences", which marked the beginning of the discrediting of J.V. Stalin.

On February 14, 1956, the XX Congress of the CPSU began its work. The key event of the congress was Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev's report "On the Personality Cult and Its Consequences", which was read at the morning session on February 25, 1956. The report was prepared on the orders of Nikita Khrushchev by a special commission led by Pyotr Pospelov with the aim of discrediting the leader of the Soviet people, Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin.

At a closed session on the last day of the congress, Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev accused Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin of establishing a "personality cult", conducting a political struggle against Trotskyism and the opposition, "large-scale repressions", criticized the actions of the Supreme Commander-in-Chief during the Great Patriotic War, and also accused him of "violation of the rules of collective leadership". Without discussion, the report was approved by a resolution of the congress.

The report "On the Personality Cult and Its Consequences" marked the beginning of the discrediting of Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin and the revision of Marxism-Leninism. Nikita Khrushchev's actions led to the decline of the international prestige of the Soviet Union and a split in the international communist movement.

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