Purim
There is a tale in the Hasidic Chabad movement that supposedly Joseph Stalin died as a result of some metaphysical intervention of the seventh Chabad leader, Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, during the recitation of a discourse at a public Purim Farbrengen. Stalin was suddenly paralyzed on 1 March 1953, which corresponds to Purim 1953, and died 4 days later. Due to Stalin's death, nationwide pogroms against Jews throughout the Soviet Union were averted, as Stalin's infamous doctors' plot was halted.
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.