Talk:20th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union

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An anon replaced "an Israeli Mossad agent" by "Jonathan Glasman". Since the contributor did nothing else useful, I reverted, until clarification. ("Jonathan Glasman" + Mossad and "Jonathan Glassman" + Mossad give 0 google hits. Needs further research. May be it was not mossad, or other type of typo in the name). Mikkalai 17:33, 6 Oct 2004 (UTC)

In fact, my brief search failed to find any other references to a mossad agent at the congress. If I fail to find an evidence, I think I'll remove this tidbit as well. Mikkalai 17:50, 6 Oct 2004 (UTC)

A piece removed until documented confirmation: However, an Israeli Mossad agent was secretly in attendance of the meeting, and obtained a copy of Khrushchev's speech. Within days the speech was circulated all over the western media, causing a massive embarrassment to the Soviet Union, and many conflicts in global communist movements. On the contrary, the speech was soon released first to regional party leadera, and then to the whole country. A week later you didn't have to be a mossad agent. Besides, there were no portable tape recorders. Did this mossad agent stenograph the speech? Mikkalai 00:05, 9 Oct 2004 (UTC)

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After the speech by Khrushchev someone in the audience shouted out and asked what he had been doing at the time. Khrushchev asked for the heckler to identify himself, the audience remained silent. Khrushchev responded "That is what I did, too".

I don't know if that is an urban myth, but if someone can confirm that did happen then I think it should be included in the article.--EchetusXe (talk) 15:56, 1 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Article expansion

I think this article, as it currently exists, is grossly insufficient to explain what events actually took place. Besides the so-called Secret Speech which has its own page, that must surely not have been the only thing said in here, so other speeches that were no doubt also important should be mentioned too. Additionally, there should be a full list of all delegates from the respective participant countries and USSR constituent republics, as well as what exactly the implications of this congress were for the future of such summits in the Eastern Bloc and the reactions and statements by the so-called anti-revisionists, among others. In light of this, would it be correct to attach the label of a stub to this page, or should I create additional headers and stub those, in the way that the Free Navigation of Waterways section in the Egypt–Israel peace treaty article was a mere title and stub template until I filled it in some time ago? --Dynamo128 (talk) 11:16, 16 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]