Posted on 07/18/2012 7:09:07 AM PDT by C19fan
When Russian leader Josef Stalin died, on March 5 in 1953, a letter was found in his office that had been written by Yugoslavian leader Josip Broz Tito. The two leaders were bitter enemies, after Tito had used World War II as an opportunity to spark a revolution and lead Yugoslavia to independence from Soviet influence. A combination of pride, fear and jealousy had spurred Stalin to attempt to have Tito killed - and no less than 22 assassination attempts had been made in the years after the war.
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I heard it was Beria, after he caught wind that Stalin was about the purge the entire Politburo.
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Tito lived so long that people stopped talking about “when Tito dies” and started saying “IF Tito dies”.
The Soviets were mad at him for not towing the line, on a trip to Moscow they sent two hookers up to his room with hidden cameras. They threatened to show the pictures unless he cooperated.
He reputedly said “Go ahead and show them. That will show all those bastards who say I am too old to get it up!”
It would probably be difficult to determine who IN FACT did it.
I think everyone was glad to see him go!
Tito lived so long that people stopped talking about “when Tito dies” and started saying “IF Tito dies”.
The Soviets were mad at him for not towing the line, on a trip to Moscow they sent two hookers up to his room with hidden cameras. They threatened to show the pictures unless he cooperated.
He reputedly said “Go ahead and show them. That will show all those bastards who say I am too old to get it up!”
LOL!
One popular version was that it was Beria and several of Stalin's inner circle. They became alarmed when Stalin calculated that since Russia had lost 20M citizens and survived that a nuclear attack on NY was worth the risk! Check into the brilliant role of warfarin in Stalin's poisoning into small amounts acre actual healthy and hence the inner circle forced to share Stalin's meals could easily consume it with Stalin in limited sittings. Beria had purchased warfarin form the US in the 1930s. The alleged tale of the inner circle torturing Beria for his murderous perversions before killing him to silence him is “inspirational”!
Hope the bastard knew it when he was on the floor
Well, Lavrenti Beria did, according to the memoirs of Vyacheslav Molotov, say that he did Stalin in and saved them all.
What was being referred to cannot be ascertained as they guarded their speech at that time.
It could have meant that Beria delayed treatment to Stalin, or it could have meant that he actualy did poison the old jerk.
Stalin’s funeral was an interesting thing to read about.
Beria was stated to be triumphant and left for the Kremlin.
Someone stated that Beria was off to seize power, which began a mad dash for their cars from the funeral..
Not sure about Stalin, but I have it on good authority that Tito was seen hanging around Yasser Arafat.
Over 500 people were crushed to their death trying to view Stalin's body as it lied in State. If you ever saw the movie "The Inner Circle" they show how crazy it was as masses of people rushed to try to view the body.
Tito was a tough SOB, I’ll give him that, you have to be to keep Croats/Bosnians/Serbs from going at each others’ throats.
And then Beria went to seize power, and the Politburo fell over themselves scrambling to beat him backto red square.
I would have loved to have been a fly on the wall during all that.
From what I have read Stalin was about to start a very major, anti-Semitic pogrom in the Soviet Union but then he suddenly died. The day he died is known as the Little Purim because he died on Jewish holiday of Purim.
http://www.aish.com/h/pur/t/ts/48955726.html
The article goes on to relate something less widely known. “That February,” it states, “the Kremlin ordered the construction of four giant prison camps in Kazakhstan, Siberia and the Arctic north, apparently in preparation for a second great terror — this time directed at the millions of Soviet citizens of Jewish descent.”
That terror, however, thankfully never unfolded. Two weeks after the camps were ordered built, Stalin attended the Blizhnaya dinner and, four days later, was dead at the age of 73.
Stalin, according to his successor Nikita Khrushchev, who was present at the dinner party, had apparently collapsed after the feast, at which, Khrushchev also recounted, the dictator had gotten thoroughly drunk. The feast ended in the early hours of March 1.
Which, in 1953, corresponded to the 14th day of Adar, otherwise known as Purim.
Stalin´s Death 50 Years Ago This Month: A “Little Purim”
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/863970/posts
One of the creepy things Stalin would do during dinners with the Politburo, would be to stand up right in the middle of dinner and say that he poisoned all of their drinks, it was just a big joke to him.
You and me both!
The other fascinating period was when Lenin became incapacitated. If it really was like it was in the movie “Stalin” with Robert Duval, what a bastard Stalin really was. It was clear Lenin didn’t want him to succeed him.
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