"During the reading of the paper On the cult of the individual and its consequences at the 20th Congress of the CPSU, one of the participants of the congress shouted to Khrushchev:
- Comrade Khrushchev, why were you silent then!
When asked, he jumped up and screamed:
“Who said that ?!” Silence answered him. Khrushchev waited a moment and said in a calmer tone:
"Now you know, comrades, why I was silent."

[Times are changing now men are afraid to be destroyed on Twitter by a dewloper. Well, nobody tortures them.

He's a bit of a joke, but in order to stand up to everyone, jeopardize your career, endure ostracism, as one Republican did, it's not easy, you need balls and a backbone."]