Joseph Stalin died on March 5, 1953, after apparently suffering a stroke — but some suspect that he was actually poisoned. Joseph Stalin’s death in March 1953 ended his long and brutal reign as leader of the Soviet Union. Since the 1920s, he’d ruled with an iron fist.
Two days after Stalin’s stroke, the public is informed that their leader is gravely ill. Doctors can do nothing for him. Lavrenti Beria, the secret police chief, positions himself to become Stalin’s successor, but he is not the only pretender to the throne. Stalin's security chief Lavrenti Beria was executed on December 23rd, 1953. Lavrenti Pavlovich Beria was a Georgian, like Stalin, who called him ‘my Himmler’. . 401 184 491 709 570 117 32 861