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History this week, March 5, 1953.

I'm Sally Helm.

On the outskirts of Moscow is a small, dense forest.

In the center of that forest is one of Russia's most secure facilities.

Joseph Stalin's country home, his dacha. It's a stately two-story building.

Watermelons and roses grow in the gardens. There's an orchard, a long outdoor veranda. The whole

compound is surrounded by lush green trees. The building itself is also green, camouflaged. The walls, the trim,

the roof, they're all painted the exact shade of the surrounding forest. Plus, it's patrolled by hundreds

of guards and surrounded by double rows of barbed wire fence.

Security measures for an aging, increasingly paranoid dictator.

But at this moment, Stalin's fears for his life are at their most legitimate.

Inside the dacha, he is dying.

Four days ago, a housemaid entered Stalin's private bedroom

and found the leader of Russia in a compromising position.

Well, he's lying on the floor in his military staff and he's wet himself.

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