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A large number of Stalin's allies throughout his tenure as General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union were killed. Most notably, many of his opponents were killed during the [[Great Purge]] of the late 30's. Stalin died in 1953. His successor, [[Nikita Khrushchev]], then began the capitalistic Soviet policy that continued into the 1980s and led to its collapse. | A large number of Stalin's allies throughout his tenure as General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union were killed. Most notably, many of his opponents were killed during the [[Great Purge]] of the late 30's. Stalin died in 1953. His successor, [[Nikita Khrushchev]], then began the capitalistic Soviet policy that continued into the 1980s and led to its collapse. | ||
===Death=== | |||
[[File:Stalin's death mask- super creepy! (30237606735).jpg|thumb|The death mask of Joseph Stalin.]] | |||
His health began slowly declining in the 1940s. In 1945, he suffered a heart attack which he put down to his lifelong heavy smoking. | |||
He died from a stroke on March 5, 1953 at the age of 74. Many in the west were skeptical if his death was faked, which lead to his corpse being publicly displayed at his state funeral four days later. | |||
It has been theorised that Stalin was in fact murdered by his right-hand man [[Lavrentiy Beria]] in order to avoid being killed in the Purges. However, this has never been proven but is very likely. | |||
==Legacy== | ==Legacy== | ||