Criminal code banned nighttime interrogations and arrests which the NKVD had favored as psychological warfare

Socialist Legality meant the law must be followed by the secret police, so no more mass executions

Gulag prisoners were freed and the system scaled down

National Popular Front in Lithuania demanded for greater recognition of their national languages and cultures

there had been restrictions on religious practices like worship and pilgrimages

artists, writers, scientists etc. work for the government with their work restricted

after hearing secret speech, reformers in Hungary attempted to break away from soviet control

in protest to a cut in wages, workers at a factory in the city of Novocherkassk went on strike, 10,000 marched to Lenin's square

KGB snipers opened fire and 23 were dead including 2 women and one schoolboy

tried to hide the massacre, repaved the whole square to get rid of the blood