Page "Communist Party of Canada" Paragraph 37

Nikita Khrushchev's 1956 Secret Speech exposing the crimes of Joseph Stalin and the 1956 Soviet invasion of Hungary shook the faith of many Communists around the world.

As well, the party was riven by a crisis following the return of prominent party member J. B. Salsberg from a trip to the Soviet Union where he found rampant party-sponsored antisemitism.

Salsberg reported his findings but they were rejected by the party, which initially suspended him from its leading bodies.

Ultimately, the crisis resulted in the departure of the United Jewish Peoples ' Order, Salsberg, Robert Laxer and most of the party's Jewish members in 1956.