Death (murder?) of I. V. Stalin: historiographic notes

Who was the most dear and beloved for the Soviet people in the middle of the 20th century? Of course, Joseph Vissarionovich. Almost all the citizens of the USSR thought that it was the complex of all the wonderful human qualities. "For the majority," the well-known journalist A. Adzhubey correctly noted, "the special place of our state on the world stage, confidence in overcoming difficulties, obstacles and troubles was associated with the name of Stalin. He can do anything, find the only right solution. So accustomed to believe, so to think, the phenomenon of this personality has become so established - above God, closer than father and mother, one of a kind." The closed Kremlin seemed to the workers, collective farmers and intellectuals to be a kind of Olympus, where the light of progressive mankind, together with its loyal associates, in a gracious atmosphere solves the daunting tasks associated with the construction of an ideal communist society. Stalin appeared to be a powerful creature who was guaranteed immortality. After all, the population of the country of the Soviets never heard or read any official reports, not only about serious illnesses of the leader, but even about mild colds. And suddenly our radio reported in early March 1953, first about a serious illness, and then about the demise of a genius of all time. It was hard to believe. The most incredible rumors spread throughout Moscow, and then throughout the country, because the "great and terrible" could not go to the next world as banal and primitive as an ordinary citizen. But to publicly discuss the numerous, directly detective versions of the death of the most outstanding man on the globe became possible only after the collapse of the communist empire.