The advent of Nikita Khrushchev presented CPGB with problems. CPGB had followed the Moscow line to attack Tito's neutralist government in Yugoslavia, however when Krushchev visited Belgrade in 1955 CPGB was forced to recant these attacks. Pollitt faced another crisis when Khrushchev, in his 1956 Secret Speech, attacked the legacy of Stalin. Pollitt's embarrassment was heightened by the fact that he had been present in Moscow for the party congress at which the speech took place, but along with the other foreign delegates had been excluded form the session at which it had been given.