1961 The XXII Congress of the CPSU opened

55 years ago, on October 17, 1961, the XXII Congress of the CPSU opened in Moscow, at which a new (third in a row) program of the party was adopted and the task of building a communist society by 1980 was proclaimed. The charter of the CPSU was supplemented by the "moral code of the builder of communism." The congress continued the fight against Stalin's personality cult by openly condemning Stalin's crimes. It began a campaign to rename cities and objects in the USSR named after Stalin, and to dismantle the monuments erected to him.