On 5 March 1953, Joseph Stalin died. The commentary describes him as the leader of the USSR, but above all as a “leader, teacher, father, the future of humanity, and the name of an era.” He is also called “the educator of generations of socialist builders,” “the one who united the nations of the USSR,” and “the brilliant theorist of Marxism-Leninism,” as well as “the creator of the might of the Soviet Army” and “the victor of World War II.”