70 years ago, Joseph Stalin's associates, who lamented at his funeral yesterday, began dismantling Stalinism. Subsequently, this time will be called a thaw, but one important detail in this story does not seem to be fully realized.
The irony is that the customers and inspirers of de-Stalinization were not Stalin's opponents, but yesterday's loyal Stalinists. Rehabilitation was carried out by those who were directly related to the repression.
In our new issue Pavel Lobkov speaks with some participants and witnesses of those events and tells the detective story of Mulder and Scully of the Soviet thaw