Lomov told a lot of interesting things in his memoirs, published 20 years ago in the novel by V. D. Uspensky "Privy Adviser to the Leader". In particular, there are unknown facts about Stalin's death.
I would like to state my point of view on this issue, based on the memoirs of Nikolai Andreevich Lomov. He was born in 1899, died in 1990. During the war, he worked in the General Staff as deputy chief of the Operations Directorate. In recent years, he worked at the Military Academy of the General Staff.
Doesn't match the truth
The well-known version of Stalin's death looks like this.
On February 28, 1953, Stalin, Khrushchev, Beria, Malenkov and Bulganin dined at the Kuntsevskaya dacha. And on March 1, Stalin suffered a stroke. He died on March 5.
So, Lomov claims that something in this version is not true.
Firstly, at Stalin's dinner there were not four, but six people. In addition to Beria, Khrushchev, Malenkov and Bulganin, Kaganovich and Mikoyan were also there. Secondly, these six arrived at the Kuntsevskaya dacha without invitation and without warning. Third, they did not come for a friendly dinner.
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Lomov claims that in 1953, Stalin intended to arrange a new 1937 year. He was going to arrest and shoot his old associates and replace them with young ones. But the “old people”, naturally, did not like this idea. And on the night of February 28 to March 1. Kaganovich, Mikoyan, Khrushchev, Malenkov and Bulganin unexpectedly turned up at Stalin's dacha and presented him with something like an ultimatum. In a harsh tone that no one expected of him, he demanded that the case of the "murderers" and the Mingrelians be dismissed. In addition, he insisted that the USSR improve relations with Britain, the United States and Israel. Then Mikoyan spoke and said that Stalin was old and should take more care of his health, and therefore … he should resign from all party and government posts.
Stalin was shocked. After all, his associates never opposed him. He said only a few words - something like "don't cut from the shoulder, you should think." The supper did take place, but passed in heavy silence. And after him all six quickly left.
There is a version that Stalin was poisoned that night. So, this is not true! And what is interesting, Stalin himself denied the version of the poisoning!
The leader looked unusual
The fact is that on March 1 Lomov came to the General Secretary's dacha, and they talked for a long time. Lomov noticed that Iosif Vissarionovich looked unusual - his face was crimson, and he himself was somehow dried up, wrinkled. In addition, he dragged one leg while walking, which had never happened before. And Lomov dared to ask Stalin, as if in jest, if they had poured something into his wine yesterday? Stalin seriously replied to this: “There was no foreign aftertaste in the wine. In addition, everyone drank from the same bottles, and if there was poison in the wine, then everyone would be poisoned."
A few hours after Lomov left the dacha, Stalin apparently suffered a stroke. But the cause is not poisoning. The reason, obviously, lies in the shock that the secretary general experienced that night. True, it did not come immediately, but about twenty hours after that “riot on the ship”. But signs of an impending stroke were observed already in the afternoon of March 1. Thus, if Lomov writes the truth, then the version of Stalin's poisoning crumbles to dust!
But can you trust Lomov?
Can!
As can be seen from his memoirs, published in Ouspensky's novel, Lomov is a convinced Stalinist. And he exposes everyone as enemies of Stalin - Beria, and Khrushchev, and even more so Karanovich. But he does not blame them for the death of the secretary general. But other Stalinists believe that their idol was poisoned. But Lomov is a witness! He knows best. True, Nikolai Andreevich is still trying to put some shadow on the fence. He writes that when a postmortem examination was carried out, one of the doctors by the name of Rusakov expressed a "dissenting opinion", after which … disappeared.
In the Medical Encyclopedia, I found this Rusakov. Yes, indeed, it says that Rusakov died in 1953, that is, in the same year as Stalin. Was he destroyed for his "dissenting opinion"? But then what about Lomov's assertion that the secretary general was not poisoned?
"Help" associates
I think that Stalin could have been poisoned not on March 1, but on March 5! After all, it is very simple to inject poison into a person in a helpless state.
What if Stalin's comrades-in-arms, seeing that he was completely bad, decided to "help" him a little? After all, they were not at all interested in him coming to his senses. They knew the secretary general's sinister intentions regarding his associates. He may have received a lethal injection on March 5. Rusakov might well have known about this, so he was removed.
Now let's summarize what has been said. So, we can consider the facts as firmly established: 1. Stalin was not poisoned on the night of March 1. 2. Stalin's blow was due to the stress of the "ship riot."
But another question arises: why did Khrushchev, Malenkov, Beria and BULGA-NIN later prefer not to mention that Mikoyan and Kaganovich were present at the dinner on the evening of February 28? The answer to this question is quite simple, if we proceed from the facts set forth in Lomov's memoirs. It is clear from them that Kaganovich and Mikoyan were the main protagonists of that “riot on the ship”. They demanded Stalin's resignation, and the other four were silent! And when the next day Kaganovich and Mikoyan learned that a blow had happened to Stalin, they freaked out. After all, it turned out that it was they who brought Stalin. And then Kaganovich and Mikoyan asked Beria, Khrushchev, Malenkov and Bulganin not to expand on what happened on the evening of February 28. They not only agreed, but even went for more - they decided to keep silent that these two were present at Stalin's dacha. And they explained their arrival at the dacha as follows: Stalin, they say, invited them to a friendly dinner that evening. No one wanted to be blamed for the leader's death. After all, they could well have been pulverized for the murder of a genius of all times and peoples.
Even three years later, when Khrushchev exposed Stalin's personality cult, he did not dare to tell what really happened on the night of March 1, 1953. Even then, he was afraid of being accused of murdering the secretary general. Furthermore! Even in his memoirs, which he wrote shortly before his death, Nikita Sergeevich did not tell the truth. And although then he had nothing to fear, he still did not want to cast the slightest shadow of suspicion on himself. Being a suspect in murder, even if you didn't commit it, is always scary.
I am sure that if Stalin was really poisoned on March 5, then only Beria could have done it. He would have had enough courage! But there is no evidence to support this. So even today no one can draw a conclusion regarding the true cause of Stalin's death.
Veniamin Mochalov, author of the book "The Secret of Stalin's Counselor", Republic of Mari El, Yoshkar-Ola. Secrets of the XX century magazine