Exhume Stalin to see if he was poisoned, pleads great-grandson

The great-grandson of Joseph Stalin is calling for the body of the Soviet tyrant to be exhumed and analysed for signs of poison in an effort to determine if he was murdered by his political rivals.

Selim Bensaad, 50, also wants Stalin to be reburied next to his wife, Nadezhda Alliluyeva, at Moscow’s Novodevichy cemetery. His remains are interred in a grave near the walls of the Kremlin. (more…)