the negotiations were led by foreign minister andrei vyshinsky prime minister of the people's republic they put their signatures pogovo. on february 14, 1966 , letter 25 was sent to leonid brezhnev protesting against the rehabilitation of stalin. wrote by major figures of science, literature and art, including academicians leonid artsemovich and pyotr kapitsa, writers valentin kotaev and korny chyukovsky, actors and directors, mikhail roma and oleg efremov, ballerina maya plesetskaya. after the dismissal of nikita khrushchev , anti-stalinist statements were no longer allowed in the media. the topic of repression was closed, books and films about repressions. the letter's authors called this quote "a partial or indirect exoneration." and we emphasized, we will quote, until now we have not become aware of a single fact, not a single argument that allows us to think that the condemnation of the cult of personality was in any way wrong. on the contrary, it is difficult to doubt that a significant part of the striking, truly terrible facts about stalin’s crimes, confirming the absolute corr