The personality of I. V. Stalin, who for many years virtually single-handedly ruled the Land of Soviets, is contradictory and in many respects mysterious. Many facts from his biography have not yet been confirmed. The death of the leader, who died in March 1953, also grew into legends.
How Joseph Stalin died
On March 1, 1953, a security officer found Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin lying on the floor in the dining room. This took place in one of the Stalinist residences, called Blizhnyaya Dacha. The next day, doctors arrived at the residence, who diagnosed Stalin: the leader's right side of the body was paralyzed. But Stalin's illness was announced only on March 4th. Bulletins on the health of the Generalissimo were broadcast by radio and published in newspapers.
The medical reports indicated signs of Stalin's serious condition - loss of consciousness, paralysis and stroke.
Joseph Stalin died long and painfully. He was speechless, although there were some signs of conscious activity. How did this elderly man, who had previously terrified the country, felt? It is possible that he was in pain and helplessness, but, alas, he could not say about it.
Stalin's heart stopped on March 5, 1953, shortly before ten o'clock in the evening. The medical report stated that the death of the leader came from a cerebral hemorrhage. The funeral of Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin, the leader of the Soviet Union, took place on March 9.
The secret of the death of the leader
Some researchers suggest that Joseph Stalin became a victim of a conspiracy of his associates, who deliberately delayed the arrival of doctors, and possibly even provoked the fatal stroke by injecting poison into the food of the leader (The Riddle of Stalin's Death, A. G. Avtorkhanov, 2007).
Other authors categorically reject the hypothesis of Stalin's poisoning, based on the available information about the state of health of the country's leader.
One of the former employees of the Security Directorate, retired Major General N. Novik, noted in his memoirs that the employees who first saw the "owner" lying on the floor immediately called their management. On the night of March 2, several prominent statesmen came to Blizhnyaya Dacha: Bulganin, Khrushchev, Malenkov and Beria. How they actually assessed the leader's condition is not entirely clear, but the guards were ordered not to disturb the sleeping Stalin.
Thus, Stalin, who was in critical condition, remained without medical assistance for several hours. Doctors arrived at the residence only in the morning. The staff who served the dacha were perplexed, wondering what the reason for such a delay was. There was a rumor that Beria was the man who deliberately delayed the arrival of the doctors. Unfortunately, today it is impossible to establish the reliability of this fact, but the staff of the dacha after the death of Stalin was immediately dismissed.
