The most surprising thing about the Twenty-second Congress of the Soviet Communist Party is that it is surprising -- perhaps quite as much, in its own way, as the Twentieth Congress of 1956, which ended with that famous `` secret '' report on Stalin.

After Nikita Khrushchev's " secret speech " to the 20th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union in 1956, which revealed that the Soviet party leadership had long been aware of Stalin's crimes, Thompson ( with John Saville and others ) started a dissident publication inside the CP, called The Reasoner.

The " secret speech " in 1956 stunned the communist world.

In The Calculus Affair ( 1956 ), Borduria is depicted as a stereotypical half-Eastern Bloc and half-fascist country complete with its own secret police ( ZEP ) ( led by Colonel Sponsz ) and a fascist military dictator called Kûrvi-Tasch who promotes a Taschist ideology.

The State Protection Authority ( or ÁVH ) was the secret police force of Hungary from 1945 until 1956.

After Nikita Khrushchev delivered his famous secret speech against Stalin at the Communist Party of the Soviet Union 20th Congress, a BKP Central Committee plenary meeting was convened in April 1956 to agree to adopt a new Krushchevite line.

In 1956, the Soviet premier, Nikita Khrushchev, denounced Stalin in a secret speech before the Twentieth Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union ( CPSU ).

One of the Shabak's leading successes was obtaining a copy of the secret speech made by Nikita Khrushchev in 1956, in which he denounced Stalin.

Indeed, Laurent Casanova and Marcel Servin pleaded for a critique of Stalinism in the light of the 1956 secret speech by Khrushchev, and they considered the political positions of the Gaullists to be distinct from the atlantist line of the government of the French Fourth Republic.

In the latter role he was angered that secret negotiations between the British, French and Israelis in advance of the Suez invasion in 1956 took place at Sèvres without his knowledge, and, in certain respects, he was sidelined by Prime Minister Harold Macmillan at the Paris " big power " summit in 1960.

As that crisis escalated, previously secret British cabinet papers show that in September 1956, Mollet requested to merge France and the United Kingdom and again, two weeks later, for France to join the Commonwealth of Nations.

In a secret speech he gave in 1956, Khrushchev denounced Stalin and his domestic policies largely loosened the government's grip over the country.

Some time in late 1956 or early 1957 the Department of Defense released a requirement for a heavy-lift vehicle to orbit a new class of communications and " other " satellites ( the spy satellite program was top secret ).

In 1956, an NKVD agent, Mark Zborowski, who had posed as Sedov ’ s comrade and friend, testified in a United States court that he had reported to the NKVD as soon as Sedov had entered the hospital under a secret name.

Starting in 1956, Ystgaard and some of his students eventually came up with the recipe that is used today and is secret.

Fasseur was the first who was granted permission by the current Queen Beatrix to read files related to the affair, that had been kept in the royal archives along with the 1956 secret report of the Beel Commission.

As the Queen's art adviser, Blunt was knighted in 1956, but was stripped of his knighthood in 1979 after Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher publicly named him as a spy — his confession having been kept secret before then.

On October 25, 1956, he sent a telegram to the US embassy in Belgrade expressing his fears that the Imre Nagy-János Kádár government might take “ reprisals ” against the Hungarian “ freedom fighters .” By the next day, October 26, State Department officials in Washington assumed the worst about Nagy, asserting in a top secret memorandum: “ Nagy's appeal for Soviet troops indicates, at least superficially, that there are not any open differences between the Soviet and Hungarian governments .”

Shulman was dissatisfied by the Communist Party USA's turn away from Stalinism following Nikita Khrushchev's secret speech in 1956.

Rákosi, having managed to regain control, was then undermined by Nikita Khrushchev's secret speech in early 1956 denouncing Stalinism, and forced to leave office on 18 July 1956, although he was able to designate Gerő to succeed him as party leader.

By this time, there was little left of Cyrankiewicz the socialist, as evidenced during the 1956 upheaval following Nikita Khrushchev's " secret speech.

His assets included extensive secret dossiers concerning German statesmen that were not published until 1956.

In his famous " secret speech " of 1956, Nikita Khrushchev, when speaking on the subject of the purges, mentioned Rokossovsky, saying, " suffice it to say that those of them who managed to survive, despite severe tortures to which they were subjected in the prisons, have from the first war days shown themselves real patriots and heroically fought for the glory of the Fatherland.

He served as chairman of the Cartoonists ' Committee in President Dwight D. Eisenhower's People-to-People program in 1954 ( although Capp had actually supported Adlai Stevenson for president in 1952 and 1956 ), which was organized to promote Savings bonds for the U. S. Treasury.

The Bureau of the Central Committee of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic ( RSFSR ) was established in 1956 as an organ whose sole responsibility was handling the affairs of the RSFSR.

In the Soviet Union this position carried such titles as Chairman of the Central Executive Committee of the USSR ; Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet ; and in the case of the Soviet Russia Chairman of the Central Executive Committee of the All-Russian Congress of Soviets ( pre-1922 ), and Chairman of the Bureau of the Central Committee of the Russian SFSR ( 1956 – 1966 ).

It became a United Nations specialized agency in 1947, and the International Telegraph and Telephone Consultative Committee ( CCITT, from ) was created in 1956.

* Reached an agreement for his " nuclear ambitions " with a NATO Military Committee in December 1956 that stipulated West German forces to be " equipped for nuclear warfare ".

Chernenko followed Brezhnev in 1956 to fill a similar propaganda post in the CPSU Central Committee in Moscow.

According to the latter usage, in 1978 the CPC Central Committee denounced as " ultra-left " the line of Mao Zedong from 1956 until his death in 1976.

During 1955 and 1956 the Manchester College of Science and Technology achieved independent university status under its own Royal Charter and became separately funded from the University Grants Committee.

In 1956, the Court further ruled that the Committee had the power to grant hearings to petitioners from the mandated territory.

Meanwhile, tensions between the two nations rose as 1956 saw the suppression of Hungary by the soviets ; the U. S. and European nations drew certain conclusions from that event, while in the U. S., a powerful social backlash was afoot, prompted by Senator Joseph McCarthy, the House Un-American Activities Committee, and Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, two atomic spies.

Before his death in 1924, Lenin, while describing Trotsky as " distinguished not only by his exceptional abilities – personally he is, to be sure, the most able man in the present Central Committee ", and also maintaining that " his non-Bolshevik past should not be held against him ", criticized him for " showing excessive preoccupation with the purely administrative side of the work ", and also requested that Stalin be removed from his position of General Secretary, but his notes remained suppressed until 1956.

In 1956, Eastland was appointed as chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee.

In 1956, Gamow became one of the founding members of the Physical Science Study Committee ( PSSC ), which later reformed teaching of high school physics in the post-Sputnik years.

Two children were born of this marriage: his eldest child and daughter, Maria Teresa Samaranch Salisachs ( born 1956 ), has been president of the Spanish Federation of Sports on Ice since 2005, while his youngest child and son, Juan Antonio Samaranch Salisachs ( born 1959 ), has been a member of the International Olympic Committee since 2001.

The Spaak Report drawn up by the Spaak Committee provided the basis for further progress and was accepted at the Venice Conference ( 29 and 30 May 1956 ) where the decision was taken to organise an Intergovernmental Conference.

The thesis was accepted as a blueprint for action by the Vietnamese Central Committee at its 11th Plenum in 1956.

In 1952, the House Armed Services Committee authorized acquiring by eminent domain large tracts to create Pease Air Force Base, which opened on June 30, 1956.

Provisions of the 1933 Banking Act that were later repealed or replaced include ( 1 ) Sections 5 ( c ) and 19, which required an owner of more than 50 % of a Federal Reserve System member bank ’ s stock to receive a permit from ( and submit to inspection by ) the Federal Reserve Board to vote that stock ( replaced by the Bank Holding Company Act of 1956 ); ( 2 ) Section 8, which established the Federal Open Market Committee ( FOMC ) made up of representatives from each of the 12 Federal Reserve Banks ( replaced by the Federal Reserve Board-dominated FOMC established by the Banking Act of 1935 ); ( 3 ) Section 11 ( b ), which prohibited interest payments on demand deposits ( repealed by the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act of 2010 ) and authorized the Federal Reserve Board to limit interest rates on time deposits ( phased out by the Depository Institutions Deregulation and Monetary Control Act of 1980 ), both of which interest limitations were incorporated into Regulation Q, and ( 4 ) Section 12, which prohibited Federal Reserve System member bank loans to their executive officers and required the repayment of outstanding loans ( replaced by the 1935 Banking Act ’ s regulation of such loans and modified by later legislation ).

In 1956 Gauqelin invited the Belgian Para Committee ( Comité Para ) to review his findings but it was not until 1962 that Jean Dath corroborated the statistics Gauquelin had presented and suggested an attempt at duplication using Belgian athletes.

By 1955 he had become involved in politics as well as trade union activity ; he joined the Young Communist League, becoming its Yorkshire District Chair in 1956 and, later in the same year, a member of its National Executive Committee.

Brown was an early investigator of UFOs and in 1956 helped found the National Investigations Committee on Aerial Phenomena ( NICAP ).

He joined the Union of Communist Youth in 1944 and the Communist Party in 1953 and made a career in the Communist nomenklatura, becoming a secretary of the Central Committee of the Union of Communist Youth in 1956 and a member of the Central Committee of the Romanian Communist Party in 1965.