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The assertion that Stalin was poisoned by Beria's associates has been supported by Edvard Radzinsky and other authors. [57] From 1939 to 1953, the Soviet Poison Laboratory was under the direct supervision of Beria and his deputy Vsevolod Merkulov [citation needed]. [61] [page needed] According to Radzinsky, Stalin was poisoned by a senior ...
Stalin planned to dismiss and execute Molotov and other senior members of the Soviet regime in 1953. [16] According to Radzinsky, Stalin was poisoned by Khrustalev, a senior bodyguard briefly mentioned in the memoirs of Svetlana Alliluyeva, Stalin's daughter. [17]
Joseph Stalin, second leader of the Soviet Union, died on 5 March 1953 at his Kuntsevo Dacha after suffering a stroke, at age 74.He was given a state funeral in Moscow on 9 March, with four days of national mourning declared.
Joseph Stalin (d. 1953); officially cerebral hemorrhage, but according to Vyacheslav Molotov's memoirs and historians Radzinsky and Antonov-Ovseenko, Stalin was poisoned on Lavrenty Beria's orders; Vasili Blokhin (d. 1955), former executioner of NKVD; Lal Bahadur Shastri (d. 1966), second Prime Minister of India
Trotsky controversially suggested that Stalin had poisoned V.I. Lenin, seen here with Stalin recuperating from a stroke in the city of Gorky. Stalin begins with an unfinished introduction where Trotsky attempts to prove his objectivity in relation to the events in the rest of the book, however was never finished due to his assassination. [12]
Investigators looking into the mysterious illness of former Russian spy Sergei Skripal reportedly believe he may have been poisoned with a rare heavy metal.
According to the book, Stalin was poisoned by order of Lavrentiy Beria. His book includes an interview with a former bodyguard of Stalin, who stated that on the night of Stalin's death, the bodyguards were relieved of duty by an NKVD officer named Khrustalev.
The Russian politician and dissident has been poisoned on two occasions—once in 2015 and again in 2017. In April 2022, he was convicted of “high treason” for speeches he had delivered, two ...