Link to the book:
https://archive.org/details/generalssonjourn0000pele_y8d8
I still believe there's more to the story of why and how this was allowed.
https://odysee.com/@PressingTowards:3/The-UGLY-Truth---B%27nai-B%27rth---the-ADL_2:1?r=HjNdX7ZK3GWXqGmvNVem2sUsU3fAXhAs
Activist Vitaly Ioffe went out with a picket in St. Petersburg on the anniversary of the death of Joseph Stalin. The inscription on the poster: “Joseph Stalin died on March 5, 1953. If one died, the other will die too.”