A timeline of Stalin's life, the man that oversaw the war machine that helped defeat Nazism and who was the supreme ruler of the Soviet Union for a quarter of a century.
Moscow, March 5th 1953. Stalin is dead. One day later, he is lying in state in an open coffin. Over one and a half million people move through the streets of Moscow. A last farewell for the man they ...
A bitter attack on Stalin accusing him of responsibility for massacre and torture during his 30 years in power has been made by Mr Khrushchev, according to reports from reliable Communist sources.