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Vladimir Lenin 'died from syphilis, not stroke' |
Syphilis killed Russian revolutionary Vladimir Lenin and not a stroke,
believes a British historian. To find the evidence, Helen Rappaport delved deep
into books, papers and obscure journals. Rappaport thinks the Soviets tried hard
to cover up the real reasons for Lenin's erratic, manic behaviour, bouts of rage
and untimely death at 53, seven years after the revolution of 1917, reports The
Daily Express. In a bid to reach the conclusion, Rappaport unearthed comments
from Professor Ivan Pavlov. Pavlov said the "revolution was made by a madman with
syphilis of the brain". The historian also cites a comment by Soviet diplomat
Vatslav Vorovsky. He told an Italian colleague in Rome in the early1920s: "We
are led by a schoolmaster whom syphilis has endowed with a few sparks of genius
before it kills him." According to the historian, Lenin may have caught the disease
from a prostitute in Paris in about 1902. From 1921's end he suffered a series
of catastrophic physical attacks leading to progressive paralysis. |
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