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What was the immediate impact of Khrushchev’s ""Secret Speech""?

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The speech (Stalinist rebuttal of Khrushchev's "Secret Speech) shock to the audience to the core and this set off a chain of reaction that led to calls for reform in Eastern Europe and a new policy in the Soviet Union for dealing with the West.

Some reports reported that some audience were so convulsed as they listened that they suffered heart attacks; while others committed su i cide afterwards.

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