Apart from anything else, the secret speech was an act of repentance.
What were you doing, practicing a secret speech on the side?
It had been laid out in a secret speech by Stalin to top military officers barely one week earlier.
The secret speech was in part motivated by a sense of guilt at his own complicity.
Khrushchev gave the secret speech to put an end to the terror.
The "secret speech" in 1956 stunned the communist world.
Krushchev's 1956 secret speech further solidified this thought within him, but he kept these thoughts to himself at that time.
Keep those reports coming, but tip everybody to switch to Secret Speech if they have to talk to me.
Subsequent to the 1956 Secret Speech, it was banned and placed in the archives.
Shall we teach you the secret speech of dragonkind?
