Not even the sudden and destabilising death of Joseph Stalin or the expected demises of Josip Broz Tito, Leonid Brezhnev or Kim Il Sung were hushed up for long.

• 无论是突如其来，震动朝野的斯大林之死，抑或是意料之中的铁托、勃列日涅夫、金日成之死，都没能长时间保密。