Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-)Calendar ||| Stalin, Joseph

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Hoveyda was sentenced to death for "waging war against God" and "spreading corruption on earth". Before reaching the area designated for firing squad executions Hojatoleslam Hadi Ghaffari pulled out a pistol and shot Hoveyda twice in the neck. He was left on the ground in agony, begging for the executioners to finish him off. Finally his executioners shot him in the head. According to the autopsy report Hoveyda was also beaten shortly before his execution.
(7 April 1979)

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		General secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin born as Ioseb Besarionis dze Jughashvili 18 December 1879 (+) is born in Gori, Georgia. 5 March 1953 (-) dies of a cerebral hemorrhage in Kuntsevo, Russia.
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