On the last day of the 22nd Congress of the CPSU, October 30, 1961, there were sudden changes in the rules of the meeting.
The moderator of the meeting, Nikolai Shvarnik, unexpectedly gave permission to speak to the first secretary of the Leningrad Regional Committee, Spiridonov. Then Demichev, the first secretary of the Moscow City Committee, and the Prime Minister of Georgia, Givi Javakhishvili, spoke. All of them approached the representatives of the Congress with an unexpected proposal to remove Stalin's body from the mausoleum. Then Comrade Lazarkina (party member since 1902, personally met with Lenin, suppressed in 1937, restored after the 20th Congress of the CPSU). Comrade Lazorkina gave a speech that went down in the history of the CPSU: "I always carry Ilyich in my heart and always, friends, in the most difficult moments, I survived only because Ilyich was in my heart, and I consulted him: what to do? Yesterday I consulted with Ilyich, as if he stood in front of me as if he were alive and said: "Comrade Lazorkina, it is not pleasant for me to be next to Stalin, who brought so much trouble to the party." The operation to rebury Stalin took place on the night between October 31 and November 1 and lasted less than an hour. 30 people participated in it. Relatives were not invited. Eight officers of the Kremlin Regiment moved Stalin's body into a wooden coffin and transferred it to the laboratory of the mausoleum. There, gold buttons and shoulder straps were cut to the dimensions of the generalissimo. The star of the hero of socialist labor was also removed. The coffin was then led to the Kremlin wall and lowered on ropes to the grave. No one gave speeches. The head of the ceremony, Nikolai Shvarnik, cried without hesitation. One of the generals ordered the funeral table to be set up, but those present refused to participate in the funeral. On the morning of November 1, the mausoleum opened as usual. On the front was written the inscription "Lenin" on white cloth. Communication with the spirit of Lenin, burial under the cover of darkness. In the Soviet Union, back in 1961, they managed to creatively spend Halloween.