Posted on 03/13/2006 11:50:54 PM PST by Bender2
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Grandson Wants Russian Authorities to Investigate Stalins Death
Joseph Stalins great-grandson has appealed to the Russian authorities with a request to investigate the circumstances of his great-grandfathers death, news agencies reported Thursday.
When Stalin was disposed of, Khrushchev, who imagined himself to be a statesman, was able to come to power. His so called activities were nothing but a betrayal of the interests of the state that he headed, Jacob Jugashvili said in a statement.
The betrayal committed in the Kremlin should be judged in the Kremlin, too, he added, and asked the Russian authorities to size up the degree of responsibility of all persons involved in the state coup of March 1953.
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