The body of Vladimir Lenin, who died in 1924 at age 53, is kept in a mausoleum in Moscow.
Posted on 06/22/2004 10:54:58 AM PDT by presidio9
The body of Vladimir Lenin, who died in 1924 at age 53, is kept in a mausoleum in Moscow.
Nice to know. I hope he suffered horribly.
Clinton had Hillary.
----I still like to think that the pillow Stalin may have held over his face had something to do with it, also---
Not fair. Syphilis can be cured.
Hmm, bursts of creativity, like writing a whopping 957-page book? Hmm, mood swings, like an outburst of anger at a reporter who asks probing questions about the book?
How about those X-42 medical records?
Too true.
Demons are immortal.
How would Lenin get syphilis? The man was a monk, totally celibate, he had no other interests in his life EXCEPT the Socialist Revolution. He simply nad no time.
Unless he was deliberately infected by already-diseased associates, at the time, as a young man, he was forced to convert to Socialism.
He lived a life that was full of hate; believe it or not, the Ulyanov family (his before the idiotic name change) was the wealthiest in Simbirsk, where his father was an educator and a large landowner. One of "Vladimir the Great Humanitarian's" first acts out of law school was to evict a peasant family from the family properties that hadn't paid the rent. HIs career went downhill from there, associating with lowlife trash the likes of Stalin, Leon Trotsky and Jacob Sverdlov. He became a thoroughly bad man, who created the blueprint for the second largest mass murder of the 20th century (after Mao's China). His corpse still lies in Red Square, but without the honor guard and with primarily western gawker tourists passing through the bizarre stone sarcophogous in which the little plastic body lies. This and syphillis constitute a fitting "tribute" to an intelligent man who hurt so many people.
It must have been the stress.
STD ping.
Syphilis was incurable until the discovery of modern antibiotics. When an important leader or thinker suffered from this disease, it could lead to seriously bad consequences. Lenin was naturally vicious and cruel, I think, but no doubt Syphilis made him worse.
Nietzsche, who originated many of the ideas that led to 20th-century totalitarianism and postmodernist nihilism, was also a victim of the disease. It has been speculated that Henry VIII probably was, too. He certainly showed the characteristic behavior patterns.
"A Retrospective Diagnosis Says Lenin Had Syphilis"
Good.
I was just about to post the article. If true, it could hardly have happened to a nicer guy.
But he had it before penicillin was invented. So it couldn't be cured.
Ever see the bones of someone from back then who died of syphillis? Eaten away, all these wormhole looking craters, so not pretty. Trust me, he suffered badly. Now we know why he was so totally insane. It eats away at the brain the way it does the bone.
I do wonder if the Russian people back then had known he had it, if they still would have followed his doctrines.
At least, that was according to his press agent. Most people got it back then from hookers. I'm sure the man had his share of those. Gotta do something for release while writing a manifesto.
Not to mention that in order to view the remains (now re-re-re-embalmed to the point of plastic)one must traverse a narrow,tiny stepped, steep stair case dotted with seemingly random mini-landing to throw one's walking/stepping rhythm out of whack. The stair case arcs up and then down forming a sort of up-side down U. And everywhere around the arc are guards hissing at you to, "Hurry up! and "Keep moving!" Obviously there's not a whole lot of opportunity to get a good look at the subject....and obviously it was designed that way.
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