Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - Bayan mutuwar shugaban Soviet Joseph Stalin a 1953 an fara shirin sauya manufofi, wanda daga baya aka sani da de-Stalinization. Nikita Khrushchev, wanda ya bi Stalin a matsayin shugaban Soviet, ya gabatar da gyare-gyare na sassaucin ra'ayi a lokacin da aka sani da Khrushchev Thaw. Duk da haka Manege Affair
na 1962, lokacin da Khrushchev ya soki baje kolin zane-zanen Soviet, ya haifar da sake tabbatar da ikon Jam'iyyar Kwaminis kan zane-zane kuma ya nuna farkon ƙarshen Thaw na Al'adu.