In his memoirs, Mlynář wrote that when they were read Khrushchev’s address to the Twentieth Party Congress at a closed Party meeting at the university, they were so shocked, they spent the whole night wandering Moscow. In the morning, on Lenin Hills, like Herzen and Ogarev before them, they swore to devote their lives to fighting Stalinism.*13 [A pause.] Those are the roots of perestroika…It came out of Khrushchev’s thaw…
