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de-Stalinization: Facts & Related Content

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Facts

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

Key People

Nikita Khrushchev

Nikita Khrushchev

premier of Soviet Union

Grigory Ivanovich Tunkin

Russian scholar and diplomat