Farewell to the Leader

Moscow city. March 6-9, 1953. Farewell to the body of JV Stalin in the Column Hall of the House of Unions. Among those present, including the guard of honor: K. E. Voroshilov, V. M. Molotov, N. A. Bulganin, N. S. Khrushchev, L. M. Kaganovich, N. M. Shvernik, A. A. Andreev, M. A. Suslov, A. I. Mikoyan, Yu. A. Zhdanov, A. N. Poskrebyshev, G. K. Zhukov, S. M. Budyonny, V. D. Sokolovsky, K. A. Maretskov, R. Ya.Malinovsky, S. Alliluyeva (daughter of Stalin), son of Stalin - V. Stalin, O. Grotewohl, V. Ulbricht, K. Gottwald, B. Bierut, K. K. Rokossovsky, P. Groza, S. Blagoeva , M. Rakosi, I. Coppenig, D. Ibarruri, Y. Tsedenbal, F. Gladkov, K. Fedin, S. Marshak, I. Ehrenburg, N. Tikhonov, V. Kataev, S. Gerasimov, M. Chiaureli, Metropolitan Nikolay and others. Buildings in Moscow with flags of mourning. Columns of people at the House of Unions (day and night shooting). Removal of the coffin with the body of I. V. Stalin. Funeral procession on the streets of the city, Red Square. Funeral meeting. Among those present: Guo Mo Jo, V. Serov, Yu. A. Zavadsky, N. Cherkasov and others. Among those present at the podium: G.M. Malenkov, V.M. Molotov, N.A.Bulganin, L.M. Kaganovich, O. Grotewohl, B. Berut, G. Georgiu-Dej, K. Gottwald, L. P Beria, A.N. Nesmeyanov and others. Speakers: NS Khrushchev, VM Molotov, GM Malenkov, LP Beria. Funeral rallies at industrial enterprises in Moscow, Leningrad, military units. Funeral rallies in the cities: Stalingrad, Kiev, Dnepropetrovsk, Stalino, Lviv, Stryi, Minsk, Tbilisi, Gori, Yerevan, Baku, Kirovabad, Vilnius, Klaipeda, Riga, Tallinn, Chisinau, Tashkent, Stalinabad, Frunze, Sverdlovsk, Magnitogorsk, Khabarovsk and others. Rallies in other localities. Funeral rallies and the laying of flowers at the monuments to JV Stalin in Czechoslovakia, Bulgaria, Hungary, East Germany, Austria, North Korea, Afghanistan, Romania.

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