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Death and state funeral of Joseph Stalin - Wikipedia. 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.
Mar 5, 2013 · Soviet leader Joseph Stalin died 60 years ago, on March 5, 1953. Stalin died of a stroke at his dacha in Kuntsevo, just outside Moscow. Yury Levitan, a Soviet radio announcer famous...
Mar 10, 2017 · From a balcony with a view to the Kremlin, U.S. Army Major Martin Manhoff shot the only known independent footage of Stalin’s funeral. Part of the Manhoff Archives, a four-part project where...
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Stalin died of a stroke on March 5, 1953 in his country residence. Next day the Soviet Union heard the official announcement on the radio.
May 2, 2022 · Written By Douglas Smith. In the early hours of 4 March 1953, Radio Moscow announced that on the night of Sunday, 1 March, Joseph Stalin had suffered a massive stroke. The report stated that the leader’s condition was grave: he was partially paralyzed, had lost consciousness, and his heart was not beating properly.
Stalin is the only man who was buried at the Kremlin wall without a memorial service, an orchestra or fireworks. Why did it happen on Halloween? A coincidence, no more than that. However, a day...
Mar 11, 2017 · Rare footage of Joseph Stalin's funeral recorded by U.S Army Major Martin Manhoff who served in the US embassy in Moscow from February 1952 until June 1954, when he was expelled from the USSR...
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- In Defense of Communism