FLOWERS ON GRAVE
Anniversary Of Stalin’s Death (N.Z.P.A. -Reuter —Copyright) MOSCOW, March 7. Stalin was remembered with a solitary bunch of flowers today, 13 years after his death, while Communist historians still pondered how to project his image. The small, plastic-wrapped bouquet, probably bought in a Moscow market, was placed on Stalin’s grey stone gravestone under the Kremlin wall by an unknown admirer at noon. The moment was carefully chosen—so that it went unseen by several thousand Russians waiting patiently in Red Square to visit Lenin’s tomb and graves outside. Whoever brought the flowers was allowed to slip behind the granite mausoleum, while the queue outside was halted for the 12 o’clock change of guard at Lenin’s catafalque.
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Press, Volume CV, Issue 31004, 9 March 1966, Page 16
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118FLOWERS ON GRAVE Press, Volume CV, Issue 31004, 9 March 1966, Page 16
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