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Khrushchev Thaw
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Khrushchev Thaw
The
Khrushchev Thaw
(or
Khrushchev's Thaw
; or simply
Ottepel
) refers to the period from the early 1950s to the early 1960s when
repression
and
censorship
in the
Soviet Union
were relaxed, and millions of Soviet political prisoners were released from
Gulag
labor camps
due to
Nikita Khrushchev
's policies of
de-Stalinization
and
peaceful coexistence
with other nations.
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