`` On the Cult of Personality and Its Consequences '' ( Russian : `` О культе личности и его последствиях '' ) was a report by Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev made to the Twentieth Party Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union on 25 February 1956 .
The speech was a spoken report to the Twentieth Party Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union on 25 February 1956 .