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However, Stalin's condition continued to deteriorate and he died at 9:50 p.m. on 5 March 1953. His death was announced the next day on Radio Moscow by Yuri Levitan. [6] Stalin's body was then taken to an unspecified location and an autopsy performed, after which it was embalmed for public viewing.
The Kuntsevo Dacha (Russian: Ку́нцевская да́ча, romanized: Kuntsevskaya dacha) was Joseph Stalin's personal residence between Moscow and Davydkovo (on the road leading to the former town of Kuntsevo) (then in Moscow Oblast, now part of Moscow's Fili district), where he lived for the last two decades of his life and died on 5 March 1953.
Joseph Stalin Иосиф Сталин იოსებ სტალინი Stalin at the Tehran Conference, 1943 General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union In office 3 April 1922 – 16 October 1952 [a] Preceded by Vyacheslav Molotov (as Responsible Secretary) Succeeded by Nikita Khrushchev (as First Secretary) Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Soviet Union [b] In ...
The reported number of kulaks and their relatives who had died in labour colonies from 1932 to 1940 was 389,521. [11] [53] Popular history author Simon Sebag Montefiore estimated that 15 million kulaks and their families were deported by 1937; during the deportation, many people died, but the full number is not known. [54]
After Stalin died in March 1953, he was succeeded by Nikita Khrushchev as First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU) and Georgy Malenkov as Premier of the Soviet Union. However the central figure in the immediate post-Stalin period was the former head of the state security apparatus, Lavrentiy Beria.
There were 5 Stalin's dachas in Abkhazia [2] New Athos dacha; Kholodnaya Rechka dacha; Lake Ritsa dacha; Sukhumi dacha, amid the Sukhumi arboretum (now part of the Sukhumi botanical garden) Miusera dacha; He also used to stay in other state residences, such as Livadia Palace, Crimea or Massandra Palace, Crimea. Alternatively, many of Stalin's ...
Peter Bergen writes on the death of Alexey Navalny in Putin’s Russia, and how historical figures have shaped the president’s rule – in particular, Stalin.
Stalin forged an alliance with fellow Old Bolsheviks to oppose Trotsky in the party apparatus. Defeating Trotsky was difficult as he had a prominent role in the October Revolution. Trotsky developed the Red Army and played an indispensable role during the Russian Civil War. Stalin feuded with Trotsky quietly, to appear as "The Golden Centre Man".