At the 20th congress of the Soviet Communist Party, Nikita Khrushchev attacked Stalin in unmistakable terms, the same Stalin whose name previously could not be mentioned without adulation anywhere in the Communist orbit.

She came upon a letter in which the former prosecutor said he had filed 17 lawsuits against newspapers for attacking Stalin, but courts refused to consider them because Stalin was dead.

Zinoviev began attacking Stalin within a matter of months, while Trotsky began attacking Stalin for this stance in 1926.

We do not blame Mandelstam for his own destruction; we do not blame him for attacking Stalin, but rather, and rightly, we blame Stalin for his Stalin-ness.

When the Soviet leader Nikita S. Khrushchev attacked Stalin in a secret speech in 1956, Mao was appalled that his putative heirs seemed to identify with the attack.

On June 22, 1941, Hitler attacked Stalin with the largest army the world has ever seen.

The narrator points out that despite his bold early poems attacking Stalin and anti-Semitism, the poet "has always managed to judge to a nicety the mood of the Kremlin."

And only weeks after Soviet Life seemed to spring from the grave to attack Stalin, the Leningrad magazine Neva has gone even further, berating Mikhail Gorbachev himself.

This goes in chain reaction and the rich boy employs some goons to attack Stalin.

Many articles in recent months have attacked Stalin for purging those he called "enemies of the people" and for the violent way in which he collectivized agriculture and forced the country to industrialize.