Today there are many new facts that change the perception of the past. Various media vying with each other broadcast about "sensational" discoveries and declassified archives, about unraveled mysteries of history and new twists in various events. Lenin's death was no exception. Many hypotheses have been hovering around this once epoch-making event for several years. What was the real cause of Lenin's death? There is no unequivocal answer, but it is possible to consider all the available assumptions and evaluate their viability.
January 21, 1924. A day that has been a day of mourning for our country for decades. This date is the day of Lenin's death. Was the leader not given proper treatment? Conspiracy of politicians or betrayal of allies?
Why are there so many questions? Suspicions are based on a number of facts:
- The doctors started the autopsy only 10.5 hours later.
- Ulyanov's personal doctor refused to sign the autopsy protocol.
- There was not a single professional pathologist among the doctors who carried out this process.
- The internal organs were in satisfactory condition, which cannot be said about the stomach, the walls of which were completely destroyed.
Adding mystery to these facts is the testimony of the arrested doctor G. Volkov, who told his wife that he had heard the words "I am poisoned" from Lenin's lips. Trotsky in one of his articles directly said that Lenin's death was the result of poisoning. Stalin was named as Salieri. Of course, such data can cast doubt on the reasons for the death of the leader.
A variation of the version of poisoning is the assumption that the cause of death was lead bullets that were fired at the head of the young country in 1918. It is not known why they were not extracted immediately after the assassination attempt, but that is not the point. It was these pieces of lead that were remembered in 1922, when Lenin began to have paroxysmal headaches. The belated decision of the doctors to remove one bullet also raises questions, after which Ilyich's he alth began to deteriorate.
Everyone knows and likely diagnosis - neurosyphilis. It was to them that Lenin was “awarded” by Helena Rappoport, who studied his biography. According to her version, during his stay in France, Ilyich contracted a "shameful" disease from one of the Parisian girls of easy virtue. This scenario is supported by the methods of treatment that doctors used to treat atherosclerosis of cerebral vessels.
Even in 2004, a version of syphilis "resurfaced" again, as the remains of a drug that was widely used to treat this ailment were found in the body. However, in defiance of this assumption, the argument is made that Lenin could accept thisdrug on their own initiative.
By and large, Lenin's death can be justified not only by illness or poisoning (even if there was such a thing), but also by the medicines that were used in those days. Arsenic, lead, mercury, exposure to lead from bullets in the body, a possible attempt at poisoning… Multiply all these components by a series of strokes (and they are evidenced by paralysis, loss of speech, visual impairment and a number of other signs, including the deplorable state of the cerebral vessels, which has been confirmed after death) - we get Lenin's death from a number of factors, each of which could be decisive.
