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.
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.