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.
Joseph Meezon
Joseph Isaakovich Meezon (October 31, 1894 – February 10, 1938) was a Soviet Jewish Bundist politician. He was educated at Moscow State University. He joined the Communist Party of the Soviet Union in 1918 and started as Secretary of the District Committee. From August 1919 to September 1920 he was Chairman of the Vitebsk gubernatorial Committee. He was Secretary of the responsible Tula gubernatorial Committee from December 1920 to May 1923. During the Great Purge, he was arrested on October 10, 1937, sentenced to death by the Military Collegium of the Supreme Court of the USSR on February 8, 1938 and executed by firing squad two days later. After the death of Joseph Stalin, he was posthumously rehabilitated in 1955.