Stalin’s last victims
Robert Service on Stalin’s funeral in Stalin: a Biography: The funeral took place on 9 March. It was a cold, dry, grey day of late winter. The sun did not appear. Frost was heavy. The crowds were dense… The Imperial regime had…
Winterings in Trans-Scythia
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Winterings in Trans-Scythia
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Happy Cheyne-Stokes day, everybody
Stalin died on March 5, 1953. This billboard, “He died: you, too, will die” – clearly addressed to the current master of the Kremlin – appeared this morning near the Paveletsky station in Moscow. For Kamil Ikramov, the announcement of Stalin’s…