Today, there are many new facts that change the perception of the past. Various mass media vied with each other about "sensational" discoveries and declassified archives, about the unraveled mysteries of history and new twists and turns in various events. The death of Lenin was no exception. Around this, at one time epoch-making, event, many hypotheses have been floating for several years. What was the real cause of Lenin's death? There is no definite answer, but it is possible to consider all available assumptions and evaluate their viability.
January 21, 1924. The day that for decades has been a day of sorrow for our country. This date is the day of Lenin's death. Really the leader was not given proper treatment? Conspiracy of politicians or betrayal of associates?
Why so many questions? Suspicions are substantiated by a number of facts:
- Doctors started the autopsy only 10.5 hours later.
- Ulyanov’s personal doctor refused to sign the autopsy report.
- Among the doctors who carried out this process, there was not a single professional pathologist.
- The internal organs were in satisfactory condition, which cannot be said of the stomach, the walls of which were completely destroyed.
The testimony of the arrested doctor G. Volkov, who told his wife that he heard the words “I am poisoned” from Lenin’s mouth, adds mystery to these facts. Trotsky in one of his articles directly stated that the death of Lenin was the result of poisoning. As Salieri was named Stalin. Of course, such data can cast doubt on the causes of the death of the leader.
A variation on the version of poisoning is the assumption that lead bullets became the cause of death, which 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 this is not the point. It was about these pieces of lead that they remembered in 1922, when Lenin started having paroxysmal headaches. The late decision of doctors to extract one bullet also raises questions, after which Ilyich’s health began to deteriorate.
Everyone knows the likely diagnosis - neurosyphilis. Helen was "awarded" by Helena Rappoport, who was studying 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. In favor of this scenario, the treatment methods used by doctors to treat cerebral arteriosclerosis are cited .
Even in 2004, the version of syphilis again “surfaced” into the world, since the remains of the drug, which was widely used to treat this ailment, were found in the body. However, in spite of this assumption, the argument is made that Lenin could take this drug on his own initiative.
By and large, the death of Lenin can be justified not only by disease or poisoning (even if it was), but also by medicines that were used in those days. Arsenic, lead, mercury, the effects of lead from bullets in the body, a likely attempt at poisoning ... Multiply all of these components by a series of strokes (as evidenced by paralysis, loss of speech,
visual impairment, and a number of other signs, including the depressing state of the brain vessels, which was confirmed after death) - we receive the death of Lenin from a number of factors, each of which could become decisive.