How Western Intelligence Misread Khrushchev
Автор: Cold War Files
Загружено: 2026-02-04
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After Stalin’s death, Western intelligence services faced one of the most consequential analytical failures of the Cold War: the misinterpretation of Nikita Khrushchev’s signals during de-Stalinization. This documentary reconstructs how intelligence agencies collected abundant information on Soviet reforms, leadership rhetoric, and policy shifts, yet consistently misread their meaning by relying on analytical frameworks built for the Stalin era. Moving chronologically from 1953 through the early 1960s, it examines how reformist rhetoric, partial liberalization, and dramatic public signaling were alternately interpreted as weakness, deception, or imminent collapse, distorting assessments of Soviet intent during crises in Eastern Europe, Berlin, and beyond. By tracing how outdated assumptions shaped intelligence estimates, this film reveals why Western analysts struggled to understand an adaptive authoritarian system that combined reform, coercion, and strategic risk-taking, and how this failure produced repeated surprise despite clear warning signs.
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