if this is this is one of three bedrooms of joseph stalin all three look quite alike this is because uring the night stalin might go to another room to make sure that nobody knew where he was at any particular moment he feared for his life. towards the end of his life stolen suspects of his guilt as a spy. a few dozen medics were arrested under his personal orders they were brought to the security ministry where they were forced to say that they had deliberately meted out incorrect diagnosis to put soviet leaders to death. and the case. against the doctors treated yeah a vehement propaganda campaign. in the press and on the radio and television. things went so far that many patients turned surgery for conditions that required treatment for. ukraine of the supreme soviet of the u.s.s.r. dr leidy a commercial has been awarded the order of lenin for her assistance from the government in unmasking killer doctors. in one hundred forty eight heart specialist lydia to measure sent a letter to the kremlin saying she disagreed with the way doctors patrice's you've gone off a high ranking servi

joseph stalin to gush meeting like the mclennan successor head of state from nineteen twenty four to one hundred fifty three to four deaths here curators doctors of the liberal press when he suffered a stroke during the night and did not get up at the usual time for the associates did not have the courage to check on the paralyzed leader for almost a day stellan died on march the fifth nineteen thirty three in a coma. joseph stalin did a tour his twentieth century dictator has a reputation for being overly suspicious millions of people were subjected to political repression under his rule it was dominated by his previous. one of his residence was merely greets enough because you're just by the fact it was high in the mountains it was surrounded by thousands of gods even here stone and dread the prospect of any attempts on his life sentence still in always sent with his face turned to the windows in this way simoni told the situation outside because he was afraid of attempts on his life. on the walls of the rooms produced edema glow bronze lights a few headaches besides the curtains w

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so who exactly is the man who could potentially become russia's longest serving leader since joseph stalin. to give us a better understanding i'm joined by masha gessin, author of "the man without a face: the unlikely rise of vladimir putin." a lot of media coverage has focused on protests against putin. some believing he rigged parliamentary elections in december but by many accounts he remains extremely popular in russia. why is that? >> thank you for having me. it's a false kind of popularity. first of all, we can't really trust the organizations which are controlled by the state. second of all and more important what putin has done over the last 12 years since he first came to power is dismantle russian political institutions basically dismantle the elections and destroy the independent media. so nobody else has an opportunity to speak to the people, nobody else can actually get popular. it's a scorched earth strategy that he's employed. >> but from what your book says, you believe that his demise is about to begin. how is that? >> i do. the movement is huge. i think the movement is mu

joseph passed away. i went to the class. i said josef stalin -- it was over the radio within a half an hour. everyone cried, it was such a shock. and what a shock it was. much worse in 1956 when khrushchev in his infamous secret speech at the party congress revealed the atrocities and brutality of josef stalin. for all of us, it was really short. the soviet system, we cannot build a paradise on earth on the bones of millions of people. that was the novel thing about my own system. and from that moment on -- of course, i came to the united states. i was a -- i finished intelligence school and everything else. i came as a scholar. my first impressions of the united states were based on my education, upbringing. i came to times square, i was just totally revolted by the vulgarity. i thought, this is the united states. next day i went to bowery, new york poverty. i said, this is the country. a symbol of human -- future, no way. and i became even more dedicated communist than ever. later i would have a good career as a radio consultant. i recruited seven americans, one would have access to inform