De-Stalinitation.
After Stalin’s death, the Central Committee began to implement a policy of explaining concisely and consistently that it is impermissible and foreign to the spirit of Marxism-Leninism to elevate one person, to transform him into a superman possessing supernatural characteristics, akin to those of a god. Such a man supposedly knows everything, sees everything, thinks for everyone, can do anything, is infallible in his behavior.
Khrushchev speech to 20th Congress of the C.P.S.U. 1956
1. Who was Nikita Khrushchev?
2. Why does he say that the cult of personality is foreign to the spirit of Marxism_Leninism?