Death and state funeral of Joseph Stalin
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Death and state funeral of Joseph Stalin
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Joseph Stalin, second leader of the Soviet Union, died on 5 March 1953 at his Kuntsevo Dacha after suffering a stroke, at age 74. He was given a state funeral in Moscow on 9 March, with four days of national mourning declared. On the day of the funeral, of the hundreds of thousands of Soviet citizens visiting the capital to pay their respects, at least 109 were later acknowledged to have died in a human crush. Stalin's body was embalmed and interred in Lenin's Mausoleum until 1961, when it was m
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Death of the second Soviet leader
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_and_state_funeral_of_Joseph_Stalin
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2017-08-03T22:06:58Z
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2024-08-28T07:17:02Z
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