[FONT=Trebuchet MS, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, SunSans-Regular, sans-serif]The Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and the U.S.S.R. Council of Ministers announce a great misfortune which has befallen our party and our people-the grave illness of Comrades J. V. Stalin, N.S. Krushev, G. M. Malenkov and V. M. Molotov.[/FONT]
[FONT=Trebuchet MS, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, SunSans-Regular, sans-serif]During the night of June 16 Comrades Stalin, Krushev, Malenkov and Molotov, while discussing along with Comrade L. P. Beria on political matters in his Comrade's Stalin Moscow apartment, suffered several fatal incidents causing hemorrhage of the brain, loosing of consciousness, and disturbances developed in the functioning of the heart and breathing.[/FONT]
[FONT=Trebuchet MS, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, SunSans-Regular, sans-serif]The medical personnel called in to treat Comrades Stalin, Krushev, Malenkov and Molotov were unable to treat their grave conditions which developed on heart failures on that very night.[/FONT]
[FONT=Trebuchet MS, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, SunSans-Regular, sans-serif]Valiant efforts of the sole survivor Comrade L. P. Beria allowed to uncover a treasonous capitalist plot which caused the death of Comrades Stalin, Krushev, Malenkov and Molotov, and which involved some of he medical personnel called to cure them.[/FONT]
[FONT=Trebuchet MS, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, SunSans-Regular, sans-serif]The despicable traitors were killed on the spot by order of Comrade L. P. Beria: Prof. P. Ye. Lukomsky, therapeutist; Members of the U.S.S.R. Academy of Medicine Prof. N. V. Konovalov, neuropathologist, Prof. A. L. Myasnikov, therapeutist, and Prof. Ye. M. Tareyev, therapeutist; Prof. I. N. Filimonov, neuropathologist; Prof. R. A. Tkachev, neuropathologist; Prof. I. S. Glazunov, neuropathologist; Docent V. I. Ivanov-Neznamov, therapeutist. [/FONT]
[FONT=Trebuchet MS, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, SunSans-Regular, sans-serif]In guiding the Party and the country as the sole survivor of the the Central Committee and the Council of Ministers, Comrade L. P. Beria takes into account the full gravity of all the circumstances connected with the temporary withdrawal of Comrade Stalin from leading state and Party activity.[/FONT]
[FONT=Trebuchet MS, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, SunSans-Regular, sans-serif]Comrade L. P. Beria expresses confidence that our party and the whole Soviet people in these difficult days will display the greatest unity and cohesion, staunchness of spirit and vigilance, will redouble their energies in building communism in our country, will rally closer around the Central Committee of the Communist Party and the government of the Soviet Union.[/FONT]
[FONT=Trebuchet MS, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, SunSans-Regular, sans-serif]June 18, 1950.[/FONT]