Only the very greatest of the Communist great achieve burial. Normally the highest honor is cremation, followed by insertion of the urn into a hole in the Red Square. Last week All the Russias were agog not because Dictator Stalin's young wife had died a mysterious death but because she was buried. Scratching their tousled heads, Old Bolsheviks said they could not remember another State burial since that of Lenin in his glass case.
In the stinking hovel of a Tiflis locksmith, Sergei Alliluiev, a brown-eyed girl...
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