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Why was De-Stalinization started by Nikita Khrushchev in the Soviet Union?

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To correct the negative image that Stalin’s extreme policies had given communism.

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Martin McCauley argues that Khrushchev's purpose was to "liberate Party officials from the fear of repression". Khrushchev argued that if the Party were to be an efficient mechanism, stripped from the brutal abuse of power by any individual, it could transform the Soviet Union as well as the entire world.

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