"Without Stalin, there would be no strong Soviet Union", this is what the Soviets once said about Stalin. However, with the sudden death of Stalin in his later years, his death also left a huge mystery for posterity.
On March 5, 1953, the news of Stalin's death spread throughout the Soviet Union. As the leader of the Soviet Union, Stalin's death should have been a matter of national grief, but the debate about the cause of Stalin's death was incessant. One side believes that Stalin died of an ordinary disease, and there is nothing suspicious about it. But one side believes that Stalin was murdered by others. If we want to know the truth about the cause of Stalin's death, we must start from the days before Stalin's death.
Malenkov
February 28, 1953, was a Saturday, the day before Stalin's sudden cerebral hemorrhage. That night, Stalin invited Khrushchev, Malenkov, Beria and Bulganin to the Kremlin to see a movie. After watching the movie together, Stalin was still unsatisfied, so he took a few of his subordinates down to his villa on the outskirts of the country for dinner.
Stalin was very happy to be able to gather together for dinner, and it was inevitable that he would have a few drinks with the others. Finally, the dinner ended in a pleasant atmosphere, and Stalin personally sent away several guests. But Stalin himself did not expect that this would become his last supper.
Stalin's villa in Sochi
Because the next day was Sunday, Khrushchev thought that Stalin would call them to the villa as usual, but he did not wait for a long time to be informed. On that day, the guards on duty standing in front of Stalin's door were also very worried. Because Stalin usually slept until more than 10 o'clock, he would get up, but it was noon that day, and the people in the house still did not move. Although the guards were worried about what would happen to Stalin, they never dared to go into the villa to see Stalin, after all, Stalin had ordered that no one else should disturb his life.
When Beria arrived, it was already three o'clock in the morning. After seeing Stalin lying on the ground, Beria insisted that Stalin was just asleep and there was no need to call a doctor. It was not until nine o'clock the next morning that Beria, at the eager request of all, called for a doctor for Stalin. Unfortunately, by the time the doctor arrived, more than a dozen hours had passed since Stalin was unconscious.
Later, after the doctors' diagnosis, it was determined that Stalin had a sudden cerebral hemorrhage, resulting in general paralysis and aphasia. In order to save Stalin, the doctors also used various methods but they were unable to return to heaven. On March 5, 1953, at 9:50 p.m., Stalin died.
Soviet officials quickly gave the answer to the reason for Stalin's death, saying that Stalin was a cerebral hemorrhage caused by high blood pressure and atherosclerosis, and eventually did not rescue him. Many people have no objection to this statement, after all, Stalin was inseparable from smoking and drinking before his death, especially his extremely large amount of alcohol, which is extremely dangerous for a hypertensive patient.
But it wasn't long before medical experts, after analyzing Stalin's blood and urine samples, came to a completely different conclusion from the Soviet authorities, believing that Stalin had died of poisoning. Through the tests of doctors, it was found that the number of white blood cells in Stalin's blood surged to 17,000, and the number of white blood cells in normal people was only 7,000 to 8,000. In addition, toxic particles were also seen in his white blood cells, which was very suspicious.
Cartoons of Stalin's Death
Thus, a few months after Stalin's death, rumors of Stalin's murder spread rapidly in the Soviet Union. Some believe that Stalin died of poison or other methods of murder. Stalin's daughter Svetlana in particular and son Vasily also insisted that Stalin had died of murder. Therefore, Svetlana deliberately questioned the cause of Stalin's death in the Book to Grandchildren.
Svetlana mentions in the book that a month before the death of his father Stalin, he had received a letter from a stranger, mainly reflecting some things about Beria, and stalin did not tell anyone about the specifics. After receiving the letter, Stalin's company was arrested, including the captain of the guard, General Vlasik, the private secretary Posklebesev, and Stalin's personal doctor.
For this, the famous American writer Salisbury expressed the same doubt, he once said: many important people who followed Stalin disappeared before his death. Among them were Stalin's personal secretaries, personal bodyguards, and members of a team of doctors who had been nursing Stalin for many years, some of whom were arrested and some of whom died mysteriously.
Even more suspicious is that Stalin did not receive timely treatment after he fell into the house, and even the doctors arrived late more than a dozen hours later. It was hard to wait for the doctor to arrive, but the doctor had not found any cases about Stalin before, so there was no way to diagnose and treat Stalin at the first time. Apparently, these cases were deliberately destroyed or hidden.
These doubts have made Stalin's death even more confusing, and there has been a lot of debate over Stalin's death. It wasn't until 2003, 50 years after Stalin's death, that a report on Stalin's autopsy gave more evidence to the claim that Stalin was murdered.
In this report, the doctors wrote that Stalin found 200 milliliters of black liquid in his stomach, and a large number of small dark red dots could be seen on the gastric mucosa, which could be easily peeled off with a knife. In Stalin's body, the so-called "inflammatory lesions of the lungs" were not found, but abnormalities were found in the digestive tract. It is like countless iron sands hitting the gastrointestinal mucosa so that it can no longer be seen intact, which is only caused by severe poisoning.
So in previous examinations, Stalin's white blood cells surged wildly, vomited blood and found toxic particles, and now these are finally explained. As for why the report was not made public at the time, it was because the Soviet top brass said that these matters belonged to Stalin's personal secrets and were not suitable for public disclosure.
If stalin was poisoned, there is already ample evidence. Who, then, would have murdered Soviet leader Stalin? The four men Stalin had met before his death were obviously the most suspicious, and the most motivated of them was the Second In command of the Soviet Union: Beria.
Stalin's daughter Svetlana also mentions Beria in her book, and she recalls that a staff member who worked in the villa for more than 20 years told herself that the body was sent for autopsy shortly after Stalin's death that day. At this time, Beria also deliberately ordered all the people in the villa to move out and closed the villa. Beria also told everyone to declare that Stalin had died in his kremlin residence. The reason for this is that Beria also does not want the service staff in the villa to go out and complain about himself. In addition, after confirming the news of Stalin's death, Beria's performance was unusually excited, as if he was celebrating the victory in advance.
As for why Beria plotted to kill Stalin? This is inseparable from the internal political struggle in the Soviet Union. In 1933,
Stalin was shot by the Assassins while on vacation in the wilderness, and before the guards next to him could react, one of his subordinates used his body to block Stalin's body, and this person was Beria. Fortunately, Beria was safe and well, and was reused by Stalin, who later became the second in command of the Soviet Union.
But although he was once a big red man around Stalin, over time, Stalin inevitably got tired of him and even began to be suspicious of him. In fact, in Stalin's later years, he began to become moody, especially full of suspicion and wariness about the people around him. Fearing that the country he had single-handedly conquered would be robbed by those around him, Stalin began to brew a "Great Purge Movement."
In the villa where Stalin lived, he rarely let anyone else into his villa except his own guards, and even his son and daughter were strictly asked to see each other as little as possible. In the last years of Stalin's life, he even began to suspect that the guards who had been serving him for many years were questioning why Beria, who had been in charge of his own internal affairs, did not change his guards. Beria reluctantly explained that because these police officers have been with you for many years and are familiar with your living habits, they have not been replaced. This shows how suspicious Stalin was.
On January 13, 1953, the Soviet government issued a message saying that state security agencies had cracked down on a terrorist group of doctors who aimed to shorten the lives of active Soviet activists through destructive treatment. In fact, it was a political purge by Stalin against those who did not trust him. After this incident, Beria also realized that if Stalin was allowed to continue like this, he would also be the target of the cleansing. It is not difficult to understand why Beria would be so happy when Stalin died.
As for how Beria killed Stalin, historian AftorHanov claimed as early as 1975 that Stalin was poisoned by Beria in mineral water. However, although Beria was suspicious, the official explanation for the cause of Stalin's death is still that he died of cerebral hemorrhage. If we want to know the real cause of Stalin's death, we need more evidence.
Later generations have always evaluated Stalin as polarized, and those who admire him consider his contribution to the Soviet Union to be great. It was precisely because of the emergence of Stalin that the Soviet Union entered industrialization and became a real power. But some argue that Stalin's rule was too brutal precisely because of his absolute control of power that many innocent people died. Of course, it was also because of this that Stalin ultimately harmed himself.
Shortly after Stalin's death, his daughter, who had always had a bad relationship with him, defected from the Soviet Union to the United States, causing great controversy. In the end, even the cause of death became a mystery, and his sons and daughters were far away from him, and Stalin's final end was indeed lamentable.
Friends who think the article is good, may wish to click a free follow, your support is my greatest motivation!