To name the cause of death of V. I. Lenin, which happened suddenly on the evening of January 21, 1924, now no one can. There are several versions of the disease. The official cause of death, which was published in the media at the time: poor circulation in the brain and hemorrhage. Along with the official version, there is an opinion that Lenin died of syphilis, which he was "awarded" by a certain young French woman.
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Lenin began to feel unwell in 1921. It was at this time that he began to complain of frequent severe headaches and fatigue. He began to experience unexplained bouts of nervous excitement. During these attacks, the politician carried all nonsense and waved his arms. Also, Lenin's limbs begin to go numb, up to complete paralysis. Doctors for the leader of the proletariat are summoned from Germany. But neither domestic doctors, nor foreign doctors can give him an accurate diagnosis.
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By the end of 1933, his condition deteriorated sharply. At times he can no longer speak articulately. In the spring of 1923, Lenin was transported to Gorki. In the last lifetime photographs, Vladimir Ilyich looks simply terrifying: he has lost a lot of weight, and his eyes are simply insane. He is constantly tormented by nightmares, he often screams. At the beginning of 1924, Lenin is getting a little better. On January 21, the doctors who examined him did not reveal any alarming symptoms in Ilyich, however, by the evening he suddenly became ill and died.
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Many possible diagnoses were put forward after death. Doctors talked about epilepsy, Alzheimer's, multiple sclerosis, and lead poisoning. In 1918, an attempt was made on Lenin's life, and one of the two bullets that hit him was removed after his death. Allegedly, the bullet passed close to vital arteries and caused premature carotid sclerosis.
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However, ordinary vascular sclerosis has completely different symptoms. During his lifetime, Lenin's illness was more like syphilis. By the way, some of the doctors who were invited to treat the leader specialized in syphilis. However, some facts do not fit into this version either. The doctors who performed the autopsy did not find any symptoms of syphilis. True, it was unacceptable to make public the fact that the leader died of a venereal disease. This would be a shadow on the "bright image of Ilyich."
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More recently, the American scientist Harry Winters and the St. Petersburg historian Lev Lurie at a medical conference at the University of Maryland proposed a new version of the cause of Lenin's death. Poor heredity was cited as the main reason. Ilyich's father also died at a fairly early age. Perhaps the predisposition to hardening of the arteries was inherited by Lenin. Stress is one of the most important factors that can cause a stroke, and there were a lot of worries and worries in Lenin's life.
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Lev Lurie suggested that Lenin could have been poisoned by Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin. Winters, having studied the autopsy results and the history of Lenin's illness, noted that toxicological tests that could detect traces of poisons in the leader's body were not carried out. Poisoning is just one of the many versions of the cause of death of V. I. Lenin.
