The real secret of Traitor Khrushchev’s speech
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The real secret of Khrushchev's speech
Fifty years ago a Soviet leader dared to criticise Stalin. But was this bravery or a cynical ploy?
Tom Parfitt in Moscow
24 February 2006
The following correction was printed in the Guardian's Corrections and clarifications column, Friday February 25 2006
English point: In the article below, the following description of the speech was used: "a coruscating indictment of Stalinism that would roll out across the world". This is the wrong use of "coruscating". As the Guardian stylebook says - supported by a great weight of dictionaries: coruscating means sparkling, emitting flashes of light; people seem to think, wrongly, that it means the same as excoriating, which means censuring severely.
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