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Shellback asked in Arts & HumanitiesHistory · 8 years ago

Did Stalin die of natural causes or was he poisoned?

I had always thought that Joseph Stalin had died of natural causes. I had just read a historical account that suggest that he may have been poisoned and one of the fingers points at Khrushchev. No documented prof but? Your thought on this please.

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  • 8 years ago
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    Natural causes - a massive stroke.

    Stalin had been in poor health for some years.A lifelong heavy smoker,he had suffered a milder stroke and a heart attack in 1945.He was 74 when he died in 1953.

  • 8 years ago

    Nah he died naturally from a stroke and eventually a brain hemorrhage though some historians say that the medical team that was handling him took longer to get to him. Whether they did it on purpose or not who knows.

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