History is full of contradictory events, attitude towardswhich is the subject of a dispute between researchers and scientists, as well as ordinary people. Undoubtedly, the life and death of the generalissimo of the Soviet Union, J. Stalin, undoubtedly belongs to such ambiguous moments.
Now very few of the young people know where they are buriedStalin, and completely does not think about how people lived in the era of his reign. But after all, he once occupied the thoughts of virtually all citizens of the country.
Joseph Dzhugashvili was born into a working class family. His mother was the daughter of a serf, his father worked at a shoe factory in Tiflis. The Georgian accent remained with Stalin for life.
His mother dreamed that the son would become a priest. It was because of this that he entered the theological seminary, where he first became interested in politics.
Over time, as Secretary GeneralUSSR, Stalin becomes known in the world as one of the most controversial and mysterious personalities. Reviews of contemporaries about him amaze with their diversity. Someone called him very pleasant in communication, for example, Herbert Wells wrote about him as a sincere, honest and honest man. Others describe him as a cunning and ignorant dodger. Most of the flattering comments left from famous foreigners, while his compatriots scolded him.
His name is shrouded in mystery. Now we can not understand how it could have happened that he was hated, feared, but at the same time Stalin's funeral came half the country, and many sincerely grieved.
The death of Stalin, like his life, is incomprehensible,mysterious and caused many assumptions and questions. Almost 60 years after his death, riddles continue to stir people's minds, for example, many ask the question, where Stalin actually was buried.
He died on March 5, 1953. The next day his body was exhibited for farewell in the Hall of Columns of the House of Unions.
Day and night in the streets waiting for their turn to say goodbye to the leader of a huge crowd of people who came not only from all over the Soviet Union, but also from abroad.
Farewell to Stalin was held for threedays and three nights. During the ceremony, there was a terrible crush in the area of Trubnaya Square, where more than 200 people died. The exact data is currently classified.
The reason for this tragedy was thatpass to say goodbye to the body could only be from Trubnaya Square, where only two narrow passages bent in the form of the letter "G" were fenced off with military equipment. The new arriving crowd pressed back those who had not yet passed the passage, the people were squeezed, it was not possible to get out of this crowd, many fell and could not crawl away. And some, even having passed through the crowd through, Stalin never saw
In general, the funeral of Stalin, the crush that arose onstreets, is a unique socio-psychological phenomenon. After all, people threw all their affairs and ran to look at Stalin. They were ready to sacrifice themselves to get to the coffin. It can not be said that this was a manifestation of love for the leader. But people felt that something very important was happening, life changed forever. Few people now know that at the news of Stalin's death, many ordinary people cried (quite sincerely). They sought to say goodbye to the "beloved leader", to visit the place where Stalin was buried. Perhaps their tears were associated with the fact that everyone unknowingly felt the end of the era and experienced the fear that always arises at a fracture. Or maybe the reason is that the mass consciousness at that time was seized by propaganda and the ruling idea. It did not occur to people to doubt the greatness and power of the "Father of the Peoples".
Stalin was truly an odious figure, there was noone person in the whole country who would have treated him indifferently. And while people have never seen him alive, only in chronicles. And now it was possible to see with my own eyes a safe dictator, a human legend. This desire was stronger for many people.
Stalin's body was embalmed, the coffin was hoistedin the mausoleum next to the body of Lenin. And in 1961, after the 22nd Congress of the CPSU, it was decided to remove Stalin's body from the mausoleum. He was reburied in the grave near the Kremlin wall.
The body was moved secretly, at night, the Red Square was cordoned off on the pretext of preparing for the parade on November 7.
It is because the whole procedurewas carried out so as not to attract attention, many now doubt where Stalin is buried in the matter, and suggest that his body was even taken out of Moscow.
Now we have to build guesses andassumptions that moved people who condemned themselves to death in a crowd out of a desire to at least once in their life to look at the leader. But in some ways their behavior is understandable. After all, the gloomy and mysterious figure of the Generalissimo still captures the imagination of both historians and ordinary people.
