‘On the Cult of Personality’ was a report by Nikita Khrushchev, made to the 20th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union on 25 February 1956.
Surprisingly, neither Wikipedia nor the Encyclopedia of Brittanica mention the part of that Speech where Khrushchev condemned Stalin’s deportations of whole nations.
Time Magazine mentioned it, as can be seen in the title image of the article.
Although the deportation of the whole Ukrainian nation to Siberia did not go through, it would be revealed later that the process started anyway. The Wikipedia article ‘Population Transfer in the Soviet Union’ states that
“According to a secret Soviet Ministry of Interior report dated December 1965, for the period 1940–1953, 46,000 people were deported from Moldova, 61,000 from Belarus, 571,000 from Ukraine, 119,000 from Lithuania, 53,000 from Latvia, and 33,000 from Estonia.”
Ukraine is so passionate in its current war against Moscow because
It defends the present and the future of the nation from the evil that Moscow has always shown towards smaller nations.
This war is a chance for reckoning with Muscovy for the evil Moscow committed towards Ukraine in the past several centuries.
Moscow’s theft of Kyiv’s legacy is the major reason for the current war. Ukraine’s Total Recall >
