Who killed Joseph Stalin?

*Watching the History Channel* Man has anyone else seen this Hitler guy? Somebody should do something about him!
 
Allen773 said:
My opinion:

The list of suspects is endless. Including old age.
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Opinion. Hmm...... How about backing that up with some evidence.

How about this for a thought. He was a lifelong smoker, and lived to be 74 years old, well past what might have been expected in the USSR at the time. Maybe, just maybe, he died of natural causes (such as old age). Wouldn't that just be incredible?
 
MikeG said:
How about this for a thought. He was a lifelong smoker, and lived to be 74 years old, well past what might have been expected in the USSR at the time. Maybe, just maybe, he died of natural causes (such as old age). Wouldn't that just be incredible?
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About to say.

All joking aside late 1800s to mid 1900s Russia/Soviet Union health care and medicine, smallpox survivor, wounded in a carriage accident as a child, multiple battles and revolutions, again Russia the country for whom "And then things got worst" is practically it's national motto... given all that isn't 74 a pretty good run considering?
 
There is little doubt that Stalin dying was a great idea: very classy of him to have finally done so. But, as the article itself notes, "The authors state that a cerebral hemorrhage is still the most straightforward explanation for Stalin's death, and that poisoning remains for now a matter of speculation."

To me it is not at all suspicious that his death benefited many people. Of course it did: he was a dangerous and powerful dictator. Similarly his symptoms are very common under natural circumstances; the fact some poisons produce similar symptoms doesn't mean much. And the secrecy surrounding his death is exactly what I would expect even for a nature demise: all of Stalin's underlings and rivals would seek to keep immediate news of the event from the public eye until it could be correctly spun to benefit themselves and to prevent undesired reactions of fear, uncertainty, or rebellion by the population.

Speculation might be interesting in the same way as are crossword puzzles, but at least the latter allow one to confirm one's conclusions by peeking at the key published in the next day's newspaper.

The movie, "The Death of Stalin," was funnier than I had expected and probably at least as accurate as the speculation in the article.
 
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Old age.

Stalin was not young when he died.

I can't for the life of me find that one anecdote where shortly after the war, Stalin repeatedly sends assassins to try to knock this one guy over, a big boss figure himself. And this guy eventually writes Stalin a letter where he tells him to back off cause he has wolves too, "and they won't miss."
 
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Stalin died just after the Great Patriotic War ended. But the Politburo, scared that the proles might discover him dead and stage a second revolution to overthrow them, kept him reanimated in a sort of primitive Soviet "Weekend At Bernies" scheme. It was not until 1953, with Kruschev passed-out drunk on the floor of Stalin's dacha one night and threatening to blow the whole scamski, that they had to admit to the public that the stinking corpse really was dead and not just a long time out of the banya.
 
Incidentally, The Death of Stalin is a pretty good movie - dark, dark comedy.

Judging from the complete clown-show that erupted, it's hard to imagine that anyone on the committee felt sure enough of the fallout of Stalin's death to enact any sort of plot.
 
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