Word: kremlins
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...until 8 o'clock Wednesday morning (shortly after midnight in New York) did the news burst upon the world. Radio Moscow sounded the Kremlin chimes set the stage with an interlude of somber music, and then a voice spoke slow, methodical Russian...
Leeches at the Veins. Inside the Kremlin, working on their 73-year-old patient with all the artifices of medicine, the doctors tried penicillin, oxygen mask, glucose injections for nourishment, caffeine for stimulation. They even reached desperately backward for a remedy: leeches to suck at the old man's veins...
Clear March Moscow skies gave way to gloomy clouds and snow flurries. Across Stalin's empire, villagers and peasants and workers clotted around loudspeakers and bulletin boards. In Moscow, a large crowd gathered before the Kremlin's huge Spassky gates. They shuffled sadly in the snow, huddled in shawls and greatcoats, talking in whispers. Many had tears in their eyes, some sobbed...
...Kremlin the elaborate medical ritual went on-every flutter of an eyelid neatly noted, every rasp of breath counted. Murder by medicine was a recognized technique in the world Stalin built and ruled; his wary survivors labored to document a thorough record of the Boss's last moments...
...force, and daughter Svetlana, 30. No mention was made of Stalin's third wife, Roza, sister of his longtime comrade Lazar Kaganovich. The gasping old man never awoke to say goodbye. At 9:50 o'clock that night, as a wintry wind howled past Kremlin battlements built by the Czars, he died...