In his last years, increasingly paranoid and physically weak, Stalin apparently was about to start another purge. In January 1953 he ordered the arrest of many Moscow doctors, mostly Jews, charging them with medical assassinations, but Stalin's sudden death in 1953 forestalled another bloodbath.

Figures

There exists no equivalent portrait figure made by Lineol or Hausser. However, after 1945 a composition figure of Stalin was produced by Durso, Belgium. This figure has the same scale as the 7 cm Lineol and Hausser/Elastolin figures and can easily be combined with them.

List of References

• Who's Who in World Politics, from 1860 to the present day, Alan Palmer, Routledge, New York, USA, 1996.
• Who's Who in Military History, from 1453 to the present day, John Keegan and Andrew Wheatcraft, Routledge, New York, USA, 1996.
• Encyclopaedia Britannica, Encyclopaedia Britannica LTD., London, 1964.

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