“The party appealed with a request to check the possible involvement of Western intelligence services in the death of Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin,” says Sergey Malinkovich, chairman of the party.
“Many testimonies from Stalin’s contemporaries speak of the possible poisoning of the leader of the Soviet nations by agents of Western influence,” Malinkovich added.
The legendary Bolshevik revolutionary who led the Peoples' Antifascist Victory died on 5 March 1953. An autopsy found he died from a haemorrhagic stroke following years of health issues, including an earlier stroke and heart attack in 1945.
The "Communists of Russia" (CPCR), a minor party founded in 2009 by Maxim Suraykin, has been sharply accused by other communist parties and groups in Russia as a spoiler and a front for the Russian government.