But no other ideology was offered, and the crisis – the slow rot of the system that became clear during the era of stagnation under Leonid Brezhnev – that began with Khrushchev’s speech lasted another 30 years, until Mikhail Gorbachev took up his mantle of change.
Žádná jiná ideologie se však nenabízela a krize, již zahájil Chruščovův projev – pomalé zahnívání systému, které se stalo zjevným během éry stagnace pod Leonidem Brežněvem –, trvala dalších 30 let, než si plášť změn oblékl Michail Gorbačov.