2007-06-23 08:38:32 · 7 answers · asked by Louie O 7 in Arts & Humanities ➔ History
Nobody knows for sure, and it's not likely that the mystery will ever be solved.
Here's a link to a BBC article with some information.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/2793501.stm
2007-06-23 08:48:09 · answer #1 · answered by Tom Barrister 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Biscuits & Gravy knows best. Award him full points. I was a teenager in 1953. Also, I have always been a lover of the music of Sergei Prokofiev. In Febrary and March of 1953, newspaper Chicago Daily News headlines screamed, "Stalin Near Death!" and "Kremlin Chiefs Rule Russia!" On March 9, 1953, there was a postage-stamp obituary of Sergei Prokofiev. On a later day, there were headlines that Stalin had died. But I think he died on Mar. 9.
I had a friend, Joe Singer, with the International News Service, which could not afford a bureau in Moscow, but Joe worked in Paris. Joe used to telephone someone at Tass every day to ask how Stalin was doing. Joe had a friend who would say, "Oh, no, Joe. There is nothing new." But on March 9, Joe telephoned, and the person was beginning, "Oh, no, Joe...," but then he continued, "Someone has just handed me this: 'Marshall Stalin died today.'"
Joe Singer later told me that the International News Service had two obituaries of Stalin written and recorded on punched tape. The moment Joe heard the word, he called to the people in the newsroom, "Roll A!" That meant to them that they should play the A-version tape, rather than the B-version tape to their newspaper and radio subscribers.
Joe Singer later boasted to me that the INS beat AP and UPS by 18 minutes.
2007-06-23 18:03:03 · answer #2 · answered by steve_geo1 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
This is what I heard:
On March 1, 1953, after an all-night dinner with interior minister Lavrenty Beria and future premiers Georgi Malenkov, Nikolai Bulganin and Nikita Khrushchev, Stalin did not emerge from his room the next day, having probably suffered a stroke that paralyzed the right side of his body.
Although his guards thought that it was odd for him not to rise at his usual time, they were under orders not to disturb him. He was not discovered until that evening. He died four days later, on March 5, 1953, at the age of 74, and was buried on March 9.
SOURCE
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Stalin#Death
2007-06-23 15:47:34 · answer #3 · answered by . 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
The guard was dispersed the night of his death and such order could be made only by Beria. This is the established fact, same as that he was denied medical aid for several crucial hours. The rest are versions and interpretations. Mine is that this was a planned murder.
2007-06-23 15:53:17 · answer #4 · answered by Victor S 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Well I have no idea who that is but I can make up a story if you like. It has to do with a watermelon, a large piece of duck tape and a duck and of course a few other things.
2007-06-25 11:53:38 · answer #5 · answered by ARIALA 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
According to this video, many thought he was poisoned with the poison to kill rats. Just take a look at the video and you'll get the true answer.
2007-06-23 20:12:46 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The butler did it.
2007-06-23 17:01:53 · answer #7 · answered by marko2529 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋