Historians have been arguing about the causes of Joseph Stalin's death for decades. Officially, the leader of a great country died of a cerebral hemorrhage at his dacha, on March 5, 1953. But 4 days before that, very strange events began in Stalin's inner circle.
No doctors
It was decided to transfer Stalin, who was already dying, to the bedroom. Have the doctors arrived? No, they were called only the next day. The servant said that they say Joseph Vissarionovich was just sleeping, why call an ambulance. This oddity still worries historians: you must admit that it is possible to distinguish a sleeping person from a person with cerebral hemorrhage without medical education.
Terrible diagnosis
And yes, it was the cerebral hemorrhage that was diagnosed by the doctors who arrived too late. The entire right half of Stalin's body was taken away immediately. Almighty man in a split minute turned into a weak old man. So another 4 days passed, and only in the evening of March 5, Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin died.
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Intention or negligence
Historians are divided. Some believe that all the servants in the Blizhnyaya dacha were just so afraid of Stalin's anger that no one dared to call doctors. But another version seems more plausible: it is unlikely that at the dacha there was not a single spy sent from Stalin's entourage. Someone should have known that the leader was dying and someone should have taken advantage of this position.
Could he survive
After examining Stalin on March 2, a council of the most prominent Moscow professors decided: there is no chance of salvation. Another thing is that call the ambulance crew earlier, and everything could have turned out completely differently. But Stalin brought himself to such an outcome. The day before the hemorrhage, out of paranoid suspicions, the closest people were arrested: the head of the security Vlasik, the devoted associate of Mekhlis and, most importantly, the personal doctor Vinogradov. Any of them could have provided first aid to the unconscious Stalin.
Beria's shadow
NKVD officers came to the places of people loyal to Stalin personally, which Beria held with an iron grip. Could he not have known about the sudden illness of the leader of the nations? Hardly. Svetlana Alliluyeva, Stalin's daughter, was indignant about why the doctors were not called on March 1, to which the same Beria gave a short answer: Stalin is fine, he is sleeping.
Silence of phones
And one more oddity. On March 1, Alliluyeva tried to call her father on one of three secret phones. All three lines were busy all day, and only Stalin used them. Indeed, he couldn't speak on three phones at the same time!
Poisoned version
According to one version (and, in principle, quite reliable), Stalin did not have any stroke. On February 28, a large banquet took place, where, in addition to the leader himself, there was Khrushchev and Beria. Even in the evening, Stalin felt great and did not at all look like a person who is threatened with hemorrhage. Some historians believe that it was because of the poisoning that the doctors were not called in for so long - they gave time for the poison to dissolve completely.