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...Atop Lenin's tomb in Moscow, Gottwald had stood for 90 minutes in an icy wind and 12° cold. He had been in uncertain health for years, and he was a heavy guzzler who often showed up tipsy at official functions. When he returned to Prague, he looked well enough as he briskly reviewed an honor guard at the airport. But the next day he was ill. A clutch of doctors, including two Russians, called to his bedside in Hradcany Castle (medieval seat of the Bohemian kings), diagnosed his trouble as pneumonia and pleurisy...
...Square tomb, where on state occasions Russian bigwigs customarily line up in careful order like squat tenpins, state sculptors chiseled the name CTARNH (Stalin) just below Lenin's. Presses began to grind out millions of copies of the three funeral orations by Malenkov, Beria and Molotov, and in many a dingy meeting hall from Thuringia to Tibet, dutiful comrades set to study them. It was important to get things straight, for this was the new catechism of Communism, to be echoed in a thousand Communist speeches and editorials. Thus Stalin got his reserved seat in the hierarchy...
...presence who stepped from Stalin's shadow into the role of No. 1. Nobody cried: "Stalin is dead, long live Malenkov!" Molotov, in his funeral oration, did not even mention Malenkov's name. Beria, in his single reference to Malenkov, identified him as "the talented pupil of Lenin and the faithful comrade-in-arms of Stalin...
...incapacitation" and "departure from the driver's seat," later headlined his death ERA OF 35 YEARS PASSES WITH STALIN. The New York Times used 54 full columns for the history and background of Stalin's regime. The New York Mirror summed it up in a headline: LENIN MADE STALIN-WAS SORRY...
Died. Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin, 73, history's most successful tyrant, successor to Vladimir Ilich Lenin as Premier of the U.S.S.R.; of a cerebral hemorrhage, after 29 years in power; in Moscow (see DEATH IN THE KREMLIN...