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On March 6, 1953, Radio Moscow announced the death of J. V. Stalin. Two days earlier a joint communiqué issued by the Central Committee of the Soviet Communist Party and the Council of Ministers had informed the world that during the night of March 1–2 he had suffered a brain hemorrhage which had incapacitated him, seriously affecting the functioning of his heart and respiratory system. Nevertheless, the news of his death was still a profound shock. With his passing an era of Soviet history came to an end and a new one began.
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Embree, G.D. (1959). The Nineteenth Party Congress and the Death of Stalin. In: The Soviet Union between the 19th and the 20th Party Congresses, 1952–1956. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-9550-8_1
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