Russian communists ask FSB to check involvement of Western special services in Stalin's death

This was stated by the party's chairman, Sergey Malinkovich, according to the Russian propaganda outlet RIA Novosti.

"On the 71st anniversary of Stalin's death, the party appealed to the Prosecutor General's Office of the Russian Federation and the FSB to check the possible involvement of Western intelligence services in the death of Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin, as many testimonies of Stalin's contemporaries speak of the possible poisoning of the leader of the Soviet peoples by agents of Western influence," Malinkovich said.

On March 5, communists in Moscow also planned to put flowers to the bust of the dictator, who organized a series of mass exterminations of Ukrainians in the twentieth century.

• On August 15, a monument to Stalin was unveiled in Russia: it was blessed by Russian Orthodox priests who thanked the dictator for "numerous new martyrs."
• Also in February, on the eve of the 80th anniversary of the Soviet victory in the Battle of Stalingrad, monuments to Stalin and marshals Zhukov and Vasilevsky were unveiled in Volgograd, Russia. They were erected on the eve of Vladimir Putin's visit to the city.