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GR 3.81 The Secret Speech is a 2009 historical thriller by Tom Rob Smith, the sequel to Child 44, set in the post-Stalin Soviet Union (1956) during a period of political upheaval and de-Stalinization. The novel follows former state security officer Leo Demidov as he and his family face new dangers from the dark legacy of his past career, now that the truth about Stalin's tyranny is being revealed through Khrushchev's secret speech, leading to chaos in Moscow and the Hungarian uprising in Budapest.