History in the Aching How Henry Viii's Syphilis, Stalin's Rotten Teeth and Napoleon's Piles Changed the Course of the World
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ON JANUARY 21, 1924, Vladimir Lenin, aged 53, the founder of the Soviet Union, the political mastermind behind the October 1917 Revolution and the driving force behind the Red Terror, finally died after a series of strokes that gradually incapacitated him until he was wheelchair-bound.
There was much mystery and secrecy about Lenin's illness: the official story was that he died of arteriosclerosis, exacerbated by stress, overwork and the effects of an attempted assassination in 1918. But his illness almost perfectly fits an altogether less respectable theory.See the full content of this document
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History in the Aching How Henry Viii's Syphilis, Stalin's Rotten Teeth and Napoleon's Piles Changed the Course of the World
A team of doctors, writing this week in the European Journal Of Neurology, have studied Lenin's medical records and claim he was suffering from the sexual disease, syphilis.
Furthermore, they suggest that the venereal disease may well have played its part in the creation of the brutal Red Terror of 1918 in which thousands died on Lenin's orders.Could this be true? And if so, are there medical explanations for the beha...See the full content of this document
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