Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - Maganar Sirrin, yayin da ba ta canza al'ummar Soviet ba, tana da tasiri mai yawa. Jawabin ya kasance wani abu ne a cikin tashin hankali a Poland da juyin juya hali a Hungary daga baya a shekara ta 1956, kuma masu kare Stalin sun jagoranci kwanaki hudu na tashin hankali
a kasarsa ta Georgia a watan Yuni, yana kira ga Khrushchev ya yi murabus kuma Molotov ya karɓi mulki. A cikin tarurruka inda aka karanta Jawabin Sirrin, 'yan gurguzu za su yi karin hukunci mai tsanani ga Stalin (da Khrushchev), har ma suna kira ga zaɓen jam'iyyun da yawa. Duk da haka, ba a bayyana Stalin a bainar jama'a ba, kuma hotonsa ya kasance a ko'ina cikin USSR, daga filayen jirgin sama zuwa ofishin Kremlin na Khrushchev. Mikhail Gorbachev, wani jami'in Komsomol a lokacin, ya tuna cewa ko da yake matasa da masu ilimi na Soviet a yankinsa sun yi farin ciki da jawabin, wasu da yawa sun yi tir da shi, ko dai suna kāre Stalin ko kuma ba sa ganin amfanin yin bincike a kan abin da ya faru a dā. Shekaru arba'in bayan haka, bayan faduwar Tarayyar Soviet, Gorbachev ya yaba wa Khrushchev saboda ƙarfin zuciyarsa na ɗaukar babban haɗarin siyasa da kuma nuna kansa a matsayin "mutum mai ɗabi'a bayan duk".