The story of Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin's death is perhaps as much an enigma today as it was when shared with the world by the Russian propaganda machine in 1953. But did you know that Stalin's chances of living may just have been greater had he not waged war against his nation's most skilled doctors shortly before suffering the stroke that killed him?

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