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At approximately 11:00 p.m. on 1 March, Stalin's housekeeper cautiously entered his room and found him lying on the floor, wearing his pajama trousers and a shirt. He was unconscious, breathing heavily, incontinent and unresponsive to attempts to rouse him. At 7:00 a.m. on 2 March, Beria and a group of medical experts were summoned to examine ...
After Stalin's death on 5 March 1953, Beria's ambitions sprang into full force. In the uneasy silence following the cessation of Stalin's last agonies, he was the first to dart forward to kiss his lifeless form (a move likened by Montefiore to "wrenching a dead King's ring off his finger"). [59]
When Stalin is discovered by his maid and a guard, the first to be alerted to Stalin's declining health is Lavrentiy Beria, the head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. He orders a soldier to take a girl he has raped home, and to then arrest her father. Beria goes to Stalin's dacha while making preparations for the "Glorious Future" of the state.
9 Aghasi Khanjian (murdered by Lavrentiy Beria or suicide) August. 22 Mikhail Tomsky (suicide) 25 Grigori Zinoviev, [1] Lev Kamenev, Grigori Yevdokimov, Ivan Bakayev, Sergei Mrachkovsky, Ivan Smirnov, Vagarshak Ter-Vaganyan. September. 25 (Genrikh Yagoda dismissed from his post as head of the NKVD, and replaced by Nikolai Yezhov) October
The Death of Stalin is a 2017 political satire black comedy film written and directed by Armando Iannucci and co-written by David Schneider and Ian Martin with Peter Fellows. . Based on the French graphic novel La Mort de Staline (2010–2012), the film depicts the internal social and political power struggle among the members of the Soviet Politburo following the death of leader Joseph Stalin ...
Tsanava was recalled to Moscow late in 1951, [2] after Abakumov had been arrested, and was dismissed from the MGB in 1952. After Stalin's death, in March 1953, Beria regained control of the police, opened an investigation into the death of Mikhoels, and in April had Ogoltsov and Tsanava arrested and charged with murder. [7]
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Mielke's belief in Stalin's official explanation for the defeat, that anti-Stalinists had stabbed the Spanish Republic in the back, continued to shape his attitudes for the rest of his life. In a 1982 speech before a group of senior Stasi officers, Mielke said, "We are not immune from villains among us.