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OSEPH STALIN was dead six hours and ten minutes before J the Kremlin flag was lowered and the radio announced that the Dictator was no more. In an age of split-second an nouncements of death, there is something strange in this delay. No less strange were the official communiques on his last illness. "The best medical personnel has been called in to treat Comrade Stalin. . . . The treatment is under the direction of the Minister of Health. . . . The treatment is under the continuous supervi sion of the Central Committee and the Soviet Government. .0. ." Nine doctors watching each other; the Minister of Health watch ing the Doctors; the Central Committee and the Government watching the Minister. And all of this, by an inner compulsion, announced to the world. Who can fail to sense that the laws of life and death are somehow different behind the Kremlin walls? Early on the morning of March 6, with all the morning papers missing from the streets, the radio announced that the Vozhd had died at 9:50 the night before. The communique included a call to maintain "the steel-like unity and monolithic unity of the ranks of the Party . . . to guard the unity of the Party as the apple of the eye

Author

Bertram D. Wolfe

Publisher

JSTOR

Published

1953

Language

EN