>>212400091Just not the case. Stalin continued to be open to personal reverence, just not at the same, state-sponsored scale he had been in life. 30/70 is wrong. 50-50 at worst, though more realistically the same 70-30. As much as Khrushchev personally might have wanted to take more steps against him, millions continued to hold him up as the victor of the War and that could never be taken away from him. To this day Stalin still polls highly among Russians.
Just because some notable Stalinists like Molotov were demoted doesn't mean anything. That's a shallow observation. The CPSU remained filled with cadres who made their bones under Stalin, they were never purged to any serious degree, and the Union under Khrushchev continued most of Stalin's policies. There was little rollback outside of some relaxations on cultural censorship and mass executions/ imprisonment, but they never stopped persecutions, they just shifted to other means.
Suslov was a known Stalinist and he continued as the party's chief ideologist for decades as a counterpoint.
That Xiaoping never said "Mao was a cunt" in the same way Khrushchev did doesn't change anything. They both adopted reformist agendas that would have seen them executed by their predecessor.