Chruschtschows Selbstbeweihräucherung stand in völligem Widerspruch zu seiner vorherigen Destalinisierungskampagne, deren Kernaussage war, Stalin habe den Kommunismus verraten, indem er völlig in die Fußstapfen der Monarchen der Vergangenheit getreten sei.
Khrushchev’s self-eulogizing flatly contradicted his earlier de-Stalinization campaign, the point of which was that Stalin betrayed communism by doing all that he could to resemble the royals of the past.