Abstract
826/5000 Despite the turmoil that sparked the revelation of the cult of Stalin's personality, the Communist Party has paradoxically succeeded in consolidating the stability of power ties and re-increasing the legitimacy of its position of power. The Utopian effort to achieve the Communist social ideal was gradually replaced by the party's promise of building a socialist society that had been at least proclaimed in 1960.
The gradual renewal of repressive practices in 1957 and 1958 that accompanied another wave of forced interventions into the structure of society, Was made possible by social acceptance of the image of the Communist Party as a guarantor of social stability. In the borderlands, the Communists were perceived very strongly as a guarantee of the immutability of the post-war relations, represented mainly by the forced displacement of the German population.