The death of Lenin. Facts and conjectures

Today, there are many new facts that change the perception of the past. Various media vying with each other are talking about "sensational" discoveries and declassified archives, about the mysteries of history solved and new twists and turns in various events. Lenin's death was no exception. Around this, in its time epoch-making events, not the first year there are many hypotheses. What was the actual cause of Lenin's death? There is no unequivocal answer, but it is possible to consider all available assumptions and assess their consistency.

January 21, 1924. Day, which for decades was for our country a day of sorrow. It is this date - the day of Lenin's death. Did the leader not receive proper treatment? Conspiracy of politicians or treachery of comrades-in-arms?

Why so many questions? Suspicions are based on a number of facts:

• To open the doctors started only 10.5 hours later.
• Personal physician Ulyanov refused to sign the autopsy report.
• Among the physicians who carried out this process, there was not a single professional pathologist.
• The internal organs were in a satisfactory state, which can not be said for the stomach, whose walls were completely destroyed.

Add mysteriousness to these facts to the testimony of the arrested physician G. Volkov, who informed his wife that from the lips of Lenin he heard the words "I'm poisoned." Trotsky in one of his articles spoke directly about the fact that Lenin's death is the result of poisoning. As Salieri was named Stalin. Certainly, such data can cast doubt on the reasons for the death of the leader.

The variation of the version on poisoning is also the assumption that the cause of death was lead bullets that were released to the head of the young country in 1918. It is not known why they were not extracted immediately after the assassination, but the point is not this. It was about these pieces of lead recalled in 1922, when Lenin began paroxysmal headaches. The delayed decision of doctors to remove one bullet also causes questions, after which Ilyich's health began to deteriorate.

Everyone knows and probable diagnosis - neurosyphilis. It was to them that Lenin was "awarded" by Helena Rappoport, who was studying his biography. According to her version, during his stay in France, Ilyich contracted a "shameful" illness from one of the Parisian girls of easy virtue. In favor of this scenario, the treatment methods used by doctors to treat atherosclerosis of cerebral vessels are cited .

Even in 2004, the version of syphilis again "floated" into the light, as the remnants of the drug were found in the body, which was widely used to treat this ailment. However, at the peak of this assumption, there is an argument that Lenin could take this drug on his own initiative.

By and large, Lenin's death can be justified not only by disease or poisoning (even if it was), but also by the medications that were used at that time. Arsenic, lead, mercury, exposure to lead from bullets in the body, a probable attempt to poison ... Multiply all these components in a series of strokes (and they are evidenced by paralysis, speech loss, visual impairment and a number of other signs, including the depressing state of the brain vessels that Was confirmed after death) - we get Lenin's death from a number of factors, each of which could become decisive.