A DIFFICULT AND PAINFUL DEATH: On 1 March 1953, Stalin’s staff found him semi-conscious on the bedroom floor of his Volynskoe dacha. He had suffered a cerebral haemorrhage. He was moved onto a couch and remained there for three days. He was hand-fed using a spoon, given various medicines and injections, and leeches were applied to him.

Svetlana and Vasily (Stalin) were called to the dacha on 2 March; the latter was drunk and angrily shouted at the doctors, resulting in him being sent home. Stalin died on 5 March 1953. According to Svetlana, it had been ‘a difficult and terrible death’. 

An autopsy revealed that he had died of a cerebral haemorrhage and that he also suffered from severe damage to his cerebral arteries due to atherosclerosis.It is possible that Stalin was murdered. Stalin’s Jewish cohort Lavrentiy Beria was identified as being one of the conspirators involved in the dictator’s horrific death.

FORMER NKVD BOSS LAVRENTIY BERIA, who was Jewish, was slaughtered on December 23, 1953. He allegedly pleaded on his knees before collapsing to the floor wailing.  He was shot through the forehead by General Pavel Batitsky. His final moments bore great similarity to those of his own predecessor, NKVD Chief Nikolai Yezhov, who also begged for his life before his execution in 1940. Lavrentiy Beria’s bullet-riddled corpse was cremated and the remains buried in Communal Grave No. 3 at Donskoi Monastery Cemetery in Moscow.