STALIN'S ASSASSINATION & TORN DOWN STATUE IN HIS HOMETOWM GORI, GEORGIA (GRUZJA)
		Jan Pawel Lary Lubek

There was some justice for stalinism in the end, especially for Katyn Massacre of 22000 Polish Intelligentsia and Military Representatives. 
KGB chief Lavrentij Beria feared Stalin's next purge. Like his predecessor KGB/NKVD chief Yezhov who was executed by Stalin, 
Beria knew he would be next, so he had him poisoned. It�s known that on the night of February the 28 1953, 
Stalin drank "fruit juice" (diluted Georgian wine). Poison, in the form of the tasteless blood thinner warfarin 
(rat poison) was slipped in Stalin�s drink and caused stomach and brain hemorrhaging. Doctors were not called 
entire day on purpose to make sure the poison works and Stalin could not be saved. Eventually a doctor was 
called to help him but from far away. Tyrant's death was recorded at 9:50 p.m., ironically exactly to the minute of 
signing Katyn execution orders of Polish POWs and Polish Intelligentsia in 1940. Stalin was laid to rest in the
Lenin Mausoleum but was reburied in darkness in a simple grave behind Kremlin Wall during night without 
any fanfare on Halloween 1961, ironically on the eve of All Saints Feast, holiday he banned. Upon Stalin�s death, 
Beria (also responsible for Katyn Massacre), with his network of spies and contacts, seemed poised to take over. 
But he fatally underestimated his opponent Khrushchev who eventually took over and executed Beria 
and 6 of his accomplices for treason on December 23 1953.

For over half a century a forbidding statue of Joseph Stalin loomed over Gori, the Georgian town where the 
Soviet Union's most notorious tyrant was born. In a secret operation early today Georgia's 
pro-western government ripped the monument down. The six-metre high bronze statue of 
Stalin kitted out in a full-length general's overcoat was moved into the museum courtyard. 
The operation offended many Georgians, especially older ones, for whom Stalin unfortunately 
remains a source of pride � despite the gulags, purges and other crimes. In its place president 
Mikheil Saakashvili erected a monument to the victims of the 2008 Russia-Georgia war. 
Other Georgian who played a central role in the history of the Soviet Union include Lavrenti Beria 
(who also poisoned uncle jo stalin: en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Category_talk:Burials_at_the_Kremlin_Wall_Necropolis&diff=1013909939&oldid=983224184) 
who never got a statue and his burial place remains a secret to this day. Beria was Stalin's Georgian confidante and the head of his secret murderous police. 
The Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev tore down thousands of Stalin statues after the dictator's murder in 1953. 
But the politburo gave exceptional permission for the one in Gori � a small city 50 miles west of the capital Tbilisi � to remain until june 25 2010.