My 89 year old father-in-law has been an unrepentant Stalinist since his teens. Lots of comrades were pretty bummed out by the "secret" speech that, in their view, undermined the very real achievements of the Soviet Union, and marked its long slide backwards to where it lies in ruins today, looted by oligarchs, encircled by NATO, economically reduced to its former "third world" status.
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