5th March 1953 60 years since Stalin died. Just been reading this. BBC News - Georgia divided over Stalin 'local hero' status in Gori
I read a story once that someone put a puppy in the pocket of his robe as a surprise and he keeled over when he felt something squirming around in there. Anyone know if there is any truth to that one? I imagine whoever did it would probably keep pretty quiet about it.
I seem to recollect that there was a school of thought that Stalin was poisoned. Was it proved either way? Regards Tom
I have read several recent biographies of the man (Conquest, Sebag-Montefiore, Amis, Bullock) and none of them supported the idea that he was poisoned. He was nearly 80, sedentary, a heavy smoker and drinker, and his health had been in decline for some time. To make things worse, he had recently put his own doctors in jail.
TTH, Thanks for the inormation. Your last sentence; "To make things worse, he had recently put his own doctors in jail." sounds just about par for the course. Regards Tom
Agree with you, Minden, good riddance! I rate him right up there with Herr Schnicklgruber, The Great Helmsman and Pol Pot, just to name a few.
good day blutto.yesterday,11:48am.a great statement.i agree with you.and other like minded people;thank god for the spitfire.and the young men who flew them.may they rest in peace,all the best bernard85
hmmmm. seems like March 5th is a good day for freedom ! Hugo Chavez's death draws sympathy, anger - CNN.com See ya Hugo, tell Joe we said......... well, use your imagination.
One should only speak good of the dead. Stalin is dead. Good. One should only speak good of the dead. [Your favourite dictator] is dead. Good.
Floral production up by 500%... The thoroughness and intensity of propaganda photographs of such events is always interesting. Joseph Stalin's funeral: how it happened | Russia & India Report Josef Stalin’s Funeral | Image galleries | RIA Novosti Most peculiar coffin, with that glass 'Face-bubble': [ 1961 - Ultimate 'De-Stalinisation': Secretly Removing Stalin's Body My heart is always full of Lenin. Comrades, I could survive the most difficult moments only because I carried Lenin in my heart, and always consulted him on what to do. Yesterday I consulted him. He was standing there before me as if he were alive, and he said: "It is unpleasant to be next to Stalin, who did so much harm to the party." The further retention in the mausoleum of the sarcophagus with the bier of J. V. Stalin shall be recognized as inappropriate since the serious violations by Stalin of Lenin's precepts, abuse of power, mass repressions against honorable Soviet people, and other activities in the period of the personality cult make it impossible to leave the bier with his body in the mausoleum of V. I. Lenin.
