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dated March 29, 1956: "Only criticism of Stalin"

Mr. Anastas Mikoyan, Soviet First Deputy Prime Minister, on March 27 gave correspondents in New Delhi to understand that Stalin was still held in respect in the Soviet Union but there would be no return to the "cult of personality" that marked the Stalin era. Answering questions by pressmen at a reception given in his honour, he said there were no attacks as such on Stalin at the recent 20th Communist Party Congress in Moscow, but only criticism. Most of the questions put to Mr. Mikoyan, who had led the attack on the "cult of personality" at the party Congress, related to Stalin. Asked about the significance of the "attacks," Mr. Mikoyan countered by saying: "There were no attacks on Stalin. It was only criticism. It is the tradition at each party Congress to decide about the future and to criticise something (that had been done wrongly in the past). Stalin has his place in history. So much had been said about Stalin in good terms (in the past) that there was no need to say more."

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