Maybe Beria - Thus, the major facets of destalinization Repudiation of terror Attack on crimes of Stalinist era Rehabilitation of prisoners were policies that K and his colleagues did not set out to accomplish, but backed into as they took the reigns of govt. Hosking discusses the change in character of the prisoners.
People now request investigations into the charges against their relatives.
Camp prisoners become bolder in anticipation of release. July 1953 - prisoners hold out for a commission from Moscow to arrive to deal with their demands. At that moment some Ukrainian women, dressed in embroidered blouses, which back at home they probably used to wear to church, linked arms and, holding their heads high, walked towards the tanks. We all thought the tanks would halt before the serried ranks of the defenceless women. But no, they only accelerated.