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Death and state funeral of Joseph Stalin



On 5 March 1953, at 21:50 EET, Joseph Stalin, the second leader of the Soviet Union, died at the Kuntsevo Dacha aged 74 after suffering a stroke. After four days of national mourning, Stalin was given a state funeral and then buried in Lenin's Mausoleum on 9 March. Nikita Khrushchev, Georgy Malenkov, Vyacheslav Molotov and Lavrentiy Beria were in charge of organizing the funeral.
Funeral service
On 6 March, the coffin with Stalin's body was displayed at the Hall of Columns in the House of the Unions and it stayed there for three days.[1] On 9 March, the body of Stalin was delivered to Red Square[2] to be interred in Lenin's Mausoleum where he lay in state until 1961.[3][4] Speeches were delivered by Khrushchev, Malenkov, Molotov, and Beria. After the speeches, pallbearers carried the coffin to the mausoleum. As Stalin's body was being put into the mausoleum, a moment of silence was observed nationwide at 12:00 pm (Moscow time). As bells of the Kremlin tower chimed the hour, marking the interment of Stalin's coffin, sirens and horns wailed nationwide along with the 21-gun salute which was fired within the precincts of the Kremlin. Similar observance also held in other Warsaw Pact countries alongside with China, Mongolia and North Korea. Right after the silence ended, a military band played the Soviet State Anthem. After the anthem played, a military parade of the Moscow Garrison was held in Stalin's honor. In the public's efforts to pay their respects to Stalin's casket, a number of people died as they were crushed and trampled by the amassed crowd.[5] Khrushchev provided an estimate that 109 people died in the crowd.[6]
Foreign dignitaries in attendance
According to Ogoniok, the mourners included the following foreign dignitaries:[7]
Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej – President of the State Council and Prime Minister of Romania, General Secretary of the Romanian Communist Party
Bolesław Bierut – Prime Minister of Poland, Secretary General of the Polish United Workers' Party
Konstantin Rokossovsky – Defence Minister of Poland
Walter Ulbricht – First Secretary of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany, Deputy Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the German Democratic Republic
Dolores Ibárruri – General Secretary of the Communist Party of Spain
Otto Grotewohl – Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the German Democratic Republic
Max Reimann – Chairman of the West German Communist Party
Valko Chervenkov – Prime Minister of Bulgaria, General Secretary of the Communist Party of Bulgaria
Mátyás Rákosi – General Secretary of the Hungarian Working People's Party
Pietro Nenni – Secretary of the Italian Socialist Party
Palmiro Togliatti – General Secretary of the Italian Communist Party
Jacques Duclos – Interim General Secretary of the French Communist Party
Klement Gottwald – President of Czechoslovakia, Chairman of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia
Spiro Koleka – Vice-Premier of the People's Socialist Republic of Albania
Zhou Enlai – Premier of the People's Republic of China
Urho Kekkonen – Prime Minister of Finland[8]
Yumjaagiin Tsedenbal – Prime Minister of Mongolia
Harry Pollitt – General Secretary of the Communist Party of Great Britain
Johann Koplenig – Chairman of the Communist Party of Austria
Gallery

Stalin's funeral procession
Floustry at the funeral procession
Planes of the Soviet Air Force during the military parade
APCs headed to Red Square
The first report about Stalin serious disease in Pravda three days after the stroke (1 March) and one day before the death. Published Pravda issue 63 (12631) dated 4 March 1953.
Report on Stalin medical condition, four days after the stroke (1 March) and 7 hours before he died. Published Pravda issue 64 (12632) dated 5 March 1953.
Lenin's & Stalin's Mausoleum, August 1957.
Grave of Stalin at the Kremlin Wall Necropolis, May 2015.

See also
Death and state funeral of Vladimir Lenin
The Death of Stalin, a 2017 film directed by Armando Iannucci