Death and state funeral of Joseph Stalin
On 5 March 1953, at 21:50 EET, Joseph Stalin, the second leader of the Soviet Union, died at the Kuntsevo Dacha aged 74 after suffering a stroke. After four days of national mourning, Stalin was given a state funeral and then buried in Lenin's Mausoleum on 9 March. Nikita Khrushchev, Georgy Malenkov, Vyacheslav Molotov and Lavrentiy Beria were in charge of organizing the funeral.
Death of Adolf Hitler
On 29 December 1949, a secret dossier was presented to Stalin, which was based upon the thorough questioning of Nazis who had been present in the "Führerbunker", including Günsche and Linge. In 1968, Soviet journalist Lev Bezymenski published "The Death of Adolf Hitler", which included the autopsy report. The author later admitted that the book included "deliberate lies", such as that Hitler had died by poisoning or a "coup de grâce". Western historians were allowed into the archives of the former Soviet Union beginning in 1991, but the dossier prepared for Stalin remained undiscovered for twelve years. In 2005, it was published as "The Hitler Book" by Henrik Eberle and Matthias Uhl.