The death of Lenin. Facts and conjectures

Nowadays there are many new facts,which change the perception of the past. Various media vie with each other about "sensational" discoveries and declassified archives, about the riddled mysteries of history and new twists and turns in various events. Lenin's death was no exception. Around this, in its time epochal, events are not the first year of many hypotheses hovers. 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 doctors 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 mysteries to these facts of testimonyarrested 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 directly said 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 isThe assumption that the cause of death was lead bullets, which 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 that's not the point. 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" disease from one of the Parisian girls of easy virtue. In favor of this scenario, the treatment methods used by physicians to treat atherosclerosis of cerebral vessels are cited.

Even in 2004, the version of syphilis"Floated" into the light, since the remnants of the drug were found in the body, which was widely used to treat this ailment. However, at the height of this assumption, the argument is given that Lenin could take this drug on his own initiative.

By and large, Lenin's death can be justifiednot only a disease or poisoning (even if it was), but also with medications that were used in those days. 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, which was confirmed after death) - we get Lenin's death from a number of factors, each of which could become decisive.