It is indeed a sad death.

But his life was complex.

Born to a regular family. Getting a lifelong arm injury in his childhood.
Going to a seminary for education and then stumbling upon Socialist ideas and supporting them.
Losing his wife, the love of his life, to some disease.
Seeing the West enabling Nazi Germany in the Munich agreement and making compromises.
Losing his son in the war against the Nazis.
Staying in Moscow when they were at great danger and then seeing the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics defeat the Nazis.
USSR aiding and being friendly to anticolonial movements.