End of Stalin

• Stalins paranoia : 


  • 70’s - health is declining
  • Less public appearances
  • Spends time in country dacha or in homes
  • Detached from reality
  • Enemies were ‘everywhere‘ - believed people were always out for him - four different routes - meals tasted in case poison -
  • Hysterical about fifth columnists - enemy is America
  • Heavily anti-Semitic - American fifth columnists
  • Mood swings
  • Heavy drinker
  • Frightened about being alone with his own mind
  • Childish
  • Xenophobic
• Stalin becomes difficult to run union