Stalin’s Death: Last Dinner Five Days Before Death, Smiling at the Wall with His Left Hand Before Dying
9 min readApr 30, 2024
What Exactly Happened Before Stalin’s Death?
On the evening of February 28, 1953, five days before his death, Stalin invited four top Soviet officials including Khrushchev and Beria to dine with him.
Nobody would have guessed: This turned out to be Stalin’s last dinner.
The meal that night was eaten at midnight, yet Stalin called it “lunch” due to his habit of working late into the night, resulting in him…