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De stroyed the cult of Stalin and the perception that he was a legend starting with the secret speech of 25 February 1956 S talin’s statues and portraits were removed from public places T he secret police were given less power A bolition of the death penalty L aws of censorship were relaxed so there was more freedom in the media and the arts I ncreased freedom was given to writers and artists N o elimination of his rivals, as Stalin had done, they were just given unimportant jobs instead I ndication of a less brutal control of the party S talingrad was renamed to Volvograd A lso erased Stalin from history by taking his body from the Red Square where it was buried and buried it in a grave alongside the walls of the Kremlin with other Soviet leaders. T housands of political prisoners were released from Gulags which were closed. I mproved Khrushchev’s image – portraying him as good and Stalin as bad and disassociated himself from Stalin’s crimes even though he had been responsible for thousands of deaths himself O ther places and buildings named after Stalin were renamed N evertheless, the basic elements of the Soviet system, including the dominance of the Communist Party, remained intact
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