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Khrushchev coming to power opened the door to increasing liberalization that ended with a neoliberal coup and the dissolution of the soviet union. What followed was economic collapse, widespread poverty and communist organizing absolutely falling apart. It's very easy to make people turn to reactionary ideas when a revolutionary movement is absent and you need someone or something other than capitalism to blame for the failure of your society.