The great-grandson of the USSR leader Stalin asks for the exhumation of the body and burial at the Novodevichy cemetery burial near the Kremlin for burial at the Novodevichy cemetery. The press attaché of Stalin's great-grandson Vadim Gorzhankin told RIA Novosti.
“The lawyer representing the interests of Joseph Stalin's great-grandson Selim Bensaad prepared and sent to the Moscow Kremlin Commandant's Service a statement on the exhumation of Stalin's remains.” – said the interlocutor of the agency. 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 was the consent of his relatives, during the activities of Nikita Khrushchev, “aimed at” debunking the cult of personality. ” wife of Nadezhda Alillueva. However, his posthumous will was not carried out. “Thus, Stalin’s own great-grandson has the right to demand the execution 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 that 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.