The Twentieth Congress shattered the world Communist movement, and it turned out to be impossible to cement the cracks. The Soviet Union and other socialist countries faced a crisis of faith, as the main threat to communism was not imperialism, or ideological dissidents, but the movement’s own intellectual poverty and disillusion.
苏共20大粉碎了世界共产主义运动，并且这些碎片再也无法粘合。苏联和其它社会主义国家都面临着一场信仰危机，因为共产主义的主要威胁不是帝国主义或意识形态上的持不同政见者，而是这场运动本身智识贫乏以及理想破灭。