Page "Joseph Stalin" Paragraph 91

A more recently released autopsy stated that Stalin died naturally from a stroke induced by hypertensive hemorrhage.

However, the report also noted cardiac, gastrointestinal and renal hemorrhaging which is inconsistent with a natural death ; this is consistent with poisoning by warfarin.

Beria and Khrushchev were in a position to add the tasteless warfarin to Stalin's wine the evening before.