"When the Boss died unnaturally, just as he had lived - there were rumors that he choked to death on his own quotation..." [Alexander Zinoviev, "Yawning heights"]
I remember reading somewhere that when the Party Bosses were around the bed looking at Stalin's corpse, NKVD Head Beria made a joke... But just as they laughed, Stalin's body made a sound... And they all dropped to their knees as if in prayer!