After the 22nd Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union in October 1961 - at which the former dictator Joseph Stalin was denounced in public for crimes committed in the 1930s, Yevtushenko was allowed to join the editorial board of the journal "Yunost", and in October 1962 was sent to Cuba as a correspondent of "Pravda". In 1962, knowing that there was backlash against the anti-Stalin campaign, Yevtushenko wrote "Nasledniki Stalina" ("The Heirs of Stalin"), in which he stated that although Stalin was dead, Stalinism and its legacy still dominated the country; in the poem he also directly addressed the Soviet government, imploring them to make sure that Stalin would "never rise again". The poem also taunted neo-Stalinists for being out of touch with the times, saying "No wonder they suffer heart attacks." It was well known that Khrushchev's most dangerous rival, Frol Kozlov had recently had a heart attack. Yevtushenko wrote in his memoirs that he sent a copy of the poem to Khrushchev, who approved its publication. Published originally in "Pravda" on 21 October 1962, the poem was not republished until a quarter of a century later, in the times of the comparatively liberal Party leader Mikhail Gorbachev. In January 1963, he began a tour of West Germany and France, and while he was in Paris, arranged for his "Precocious Autobiography" to be serialised in "L'Express". This created a scandla in Moscow. In February, he was ordered to return to the USSR and at the end of March he was accused by a writer named G.A.Zhukov of an 'act of treason' and in April another writer, named Vladimir Fedorov, proposed that he be expelled from the Writers' Union. No official action was taken against him, but he was barred from travelling abroad for several years.