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6th August 2018, 09:33 AM | #1 |
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Who killed Joseph Stalin?
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6th August 2018, 09:34 AM | #2 |
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My opinion:
The list of suspects is endless. Including old age. |
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6th August 2018, 10:12 AM | #6 |
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Why it was you and me.
No, that was the Kennedys. |
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6th August 2018, 10:23 AM | #7 |
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I have sympathy for the devil, but not for Joseph Stalin.
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6th August 2018, 12:23 PM | #8 |
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6th August 2018, 12:28 PM | #9 |
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*Watching the History Channel* Man has anyone else seen this Hitler guy? Somebody should do something about him!
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6th August 2018, 12:53 PM | #10 |
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Opinion. Hmm...... How about backing that up with some evidence.
How about this for a thought. He was a lifelong smoker, and lived to be 74 years old, well past what might have been expected in the USSR at the time. Maybe, just maybe, he died of natural causes (such as old age). Wouldn't that just be incredible? |
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6th August 2018, 12:55 PM | #11 |
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Well, if the movie is accurate; Olga Kurlyenko killed Uncle Joe.
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6th August 2018, 01:04 PM | #12 |
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Comrade Mustard, in the Politburo with the hammer.
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6th August 2018, 01:05 PM | #13 |
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6th August 2018, 01:15 PM | #14 |
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About to say.
All joking aside late 1800s to mid 1900s Russia/Soviet Union health care and medicine, smallpox survivor, wounded in a carriage accident as a child, multiple battles and revolutions, again Russia the country for whom "And then things got worst" is practically it's national motto... given all that isn't 74 a pretty good run considering? |
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6th August 2018, 01:39 PM | #15 |
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There is little doubt that Stalin dying was a great idea: very classy of him to have finally done so. But, as the article itself notes, "The authors state that a cerebral hemorrhage is still the most straightforward explanation for Stalin's death, and that poisoning remains for now a matter of speculation."
To me it is not at all suspicious that his death benefited many people. Of course it did: he was a dangerous and powerful dictator. Similarly his symptoms are very common under natural circumstances; the fact some poisons produce similar symptoms doesn't mean much. And the secrecy surrounding his death is exactly what I would expect even for a nature demise: all of Stalin's underlings and rivals would seek to keep immediate news of the event from the public eye until it could be correctly spun to benefit themselves and to prevent undesired reactions of fear, uncertainty, or rebellion by the population. Speculation might be interesting in the same way as are crossword puzzles, but at least the latter allow one to confirm one's conclusions by peeking at the key published in the next day's newspaper. The movie, "The Death of Stalin," was funnier than I had expected and probably at least as accurate as the speculation in the article. |
6th August 2018, 07:22 PM | #16 |
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Old age.
Stalin was not young when he died. I can't for the life of me find that one anecdote where shortly after the war, Stalin repeatedly sends assassins to try to knock this one guy over, a big boss figure himself. And this guy eventually writes Stalin a letter where he tells him to back off cause he has wolves too, "and they won't miss." |
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Stalin died just after the Great Patriotic War ended. But the Politburo, scared that the proles might discover him dead and stage a second revolution to overthrow them, kept him reanimated in a sort of primitive Soviet "Weekend At Bernies" scheme. It was not until 1953, with Kruschev passed-out drunk on the floor of Stalin's dacha one night and threatening to blow the whole scamski, that they had to admit to the public that the stinking corpse really was dead and not just a long time out of the banya.
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6th August 2018, 07:33 PM | #18 |
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Incidentally, The Death of Stalin is a pretty good movie - dark, dark comedy.
Judging from the complete clown-show that erupted, it's hard to imagine that anyone on the committee felt sure enough of the fallout of Stalin's death to enact any sort of plot. |
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The CIA and Mossad.
I mean, they killed everyone, right? |
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Josip Broz Tito, leader the communist revolution in Yugoslavia but then had a falling out with Stalin, long story (very long, Wiki has a full read up on it if you're interested) short he wanted Yugoslavia to be communist but not be a Soviet puppet state, Stalin did send several assassins to kill Tito and Tito's response is one of the most bad ass in history.
"Stop sending people to kill me. We've already captured five of them, one of them with a bomb and another with a rifle. If you don't stop sending killers, I'll send one to Moscow, and I won't have to send a second." |
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It was Bob Marley.
He practiced shooting the sheriff by shooting Stalin first. |
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I think that was "with the sickle". They'd used the hammer* on Trotsky.
*It's mistakenly assumed to be an "ice pick" like various cosa nostra and black hand types would use (or Ice Pick Slim for that matter), but it's actual a mini pick-axe used by mountain climbers, thus ice pick(axe). (Old commie/fourth international joke: How does the politburo now explain Trotsky's death? He was cleaning his ice pick and it went off.) |
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Stalin himself.
He inspired so much fear to his "comrades" that none of them wanted to call a doctor by fear he could be accused to have tried to kill Stalin in case he would have survived. |
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Well, let's see...
He smoked. He was old. Under his own expressed orders he wasn't to be disturbed under threat of punishment, and had been culling away all the competent doctors... Why exactly do we need suspects here? |
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