The lawyer of the great-grandson of the leader of the USSR Joseph Stalin Selim Bensaad demanded the exhumation of the body of the secretary general from a burial near the Kremlin for burial at the Novodevichy cemetery. Told about it RIA News press attaché of Stalin’s great-grandson Vadim Gorzhankin.
“The lawyer representing the interests of Joseph Stalin’s own great-grandson Selim Bensaad prepared and sent to the Moscow Kremlin Commandant’s Service a statement on the exhumation of Stalin’s remains,” the agency’s source said. According to him, the great-grandson asks for historical justice, the fulfillment of Stalin’s posthumous will, and is also interested in finding the “official cause” of the secretary general’s death.
“Selim believes (and this is true) that the posthumous will of his great-grandfather was not fulfilled. Let me remind you that in 1953 the sarcophagus with Stalin’s body was placed in the Mausoleum, on Red Square in Moscow, “he quoted the lawyer, pointing out that in 1961 the remains of the Soviet leader were secretly reburied at the foot of the Kremlin wall, without any there was the consent of his relatives, in the course of Nikita Khrushchev’s activities, “aimed at” debunking the cult of personality. “
The press attaché added that during his lifetime, Stalin repeatedly asked to be buried at the Novodevichy cemetery, where the ashes of his second wife Nadezhda Alillueva are buried. However, his posthumous will was not carried out. “Thus, Stalin’s own great-grandson has the right to demand the fulfillment of Stalin’s will,” concluded Gorzhankin.
Earlier it was reported that Stalin’s great-grandson was actually homeless after a conflict with his father. A descendant of the Soviet leader claims he is forced to spend the night in his own car after his father, Algerian Hosin Bensaad, changed the locks in the Moscow apartment where Selim is registered.
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