Tag Grigory Frid

Remembering March 5, 1953

I should have posted this two days ago, on March 5. Better late than never: March 5 is the day Stalin died in 1953, the so-called Cheyne-Stokes Day. In 2016, I wrote two more posts about that day of deliverance:…

“What if it gets worse?”

Members of Project 03/05/53 have interviewed over a hundred people who remembered the days of Stalin’s death and funeral. The stories are not representative of the whole country because most of the respondents belong to the urban educated class, but…