gives them to one of his men. Beria then calls Georgy Malenkov, the Deputy Chairman of the Council of Ministers, to inform him of Stalin's declining health and to summon him to the dacha immediately. As Malenkov panics, Beria encourages him not to call the doctors because Stalin, sunk deep in paranoia, believes there is a plot by Jewish doctors against him. Malenkov instead suggests they wait for the Central Committee to arrive and decide what to do next. The Committee arrives without Vyacheslav Molotov, who is on Stalin's list of enemies. The Committee decides that Lidiya Timashuk, a female doctor who accused her own colleagues of plotting to assassinate Stalin, should examine Stalin. Upon receiving medical confirmation that Stalin may not recover, Beria rushes off to Lubyanka, authorizes the NKVD to put Moscow and other major cities in lockdown to avoid unrest, and declares that the Pravda newspaper is now the only source of information to be allowed in and out of Moscow. The NKVD brings Stalin's daughter Svetlana to his bedside; she had distanced herself from her father and has grown critical of him for arresting her lover Aleksei Kapler. Stalin's son Vasily also returns. The American-made artificial ventilator is found to be incompatible with the Soviet electrical plug; without it, Stalin dies. Doctors remove his brain and organs for further study; Vasily, furious, kills many of them and is arrested. After the incident, Beria orders the NKVD troops to loot Stalin's dacha, evacuate his house servants and execute witnesses. As the news of Stalin's death spreads throughout the Soviet Union, Maria smiles happily while much of the populace mourns. Beria visits Polina, Molotov's wife, who was believed to be dead, and reveals to her that he falsified her death to Stalin because Stalin intended to use her life as a bargaining chip to buy Molotov's loyalty. During the Central Committee meeting, Malenkov is named the chairman of the council of ministers while being controlled by Beria, who is now promoted to first deputy chairman. Beria sidelines Khrushchev by putting him in charge of Stalin's funeral. Svetlana begins having a nightmare of her father arresting her lover and cold-heartedly arranging her marriage to someone else. A telephone call wakes her up and the caller demands that she attend her father's funeral under orders of the Committee. She rushes to the place where the funeral is being held, only