Posted on 11/09/2009 10:50:21 AM PST by mojito
Helen Rappaport, an acclaimed historian and author, said that books, papers and journals charting Lenin’s last years show that he contracted the sexually transmitted disease and that it ultimately claimed his life.
She said Lenin showed many symptoms of syphilis and that many among the Soviet hierarchy believed he had it. But they were banned from speaking in public and threatened with death because of the embarrassment it would cause.
Instead, official documents show that his death was attributed to declining health following three stokes and an assassination attempt in 1918.
Central to Miss Rappaport’s case was a report written by the celebrated scientist Ivan Pavlov – famous for his Pavlov’s Dog’s theory – which claimed that the "revolution was made by a madman with syphilis of the brain."
While public criticism of Lenin was banned and anyone found guilty of doing so would be often be killed, Pavlov was free to be so scathing because Lenin had granted him immunity in order to trade on his pre-eminence in the world’s scientific community.
Lenin, the leader of the Bolsheviks, the vanguards of communism, led the 1917 October revolution, part of the Russian revolution which overthrew the Government and installed the Soviets....
He died in January 1924, aged 53, after suffering three stokes in the previous two years. By the end he was paralysed and dumb.
Blaming the strokes for his death, the Soviets made huge attempts to cover up whatever lay behind Lenin's erratic, manic behaviour, his bouts of rage and his untimely death.
Miss Rappaport, an expert on Russian history and a member of several societies, including the Society of Authors and the Oxford Writers’ Group, said evidence showed Lenin probably caught syphilis from a prostitute in Paris in about 1902.
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
Sexual freedom, baby! It’s to die for!
Since his body has been perfectly preserved, would it be possible to perform an autopsy?
We knew that.
Syphilis...
This sounds like Obama’s problem too. He is definitely insane.
Lenin died of syphilis, and Hitler also suffered from it.
That’s exactly what I thought. Old Vlad is still in the box, go take some samples.
His brain, however, is not with the body. They took his brain and saved it for “scientific study” to determine what made him such a superior communist. Supposedly, when cutting sections of the brain for analysis, you could hear the grinding and crunching of the saw blade because of the advanced sclerosis and calcification of the cerebral blood vessels. How much of that is Soviet crap I don’t know, but hey, I saw it on the History Channel. It was on after the Bigfoot and before the UFO shows.
I am surprised he was not gay! Maybe he stayed in the closet.
Is anyone really surprised by any of this?
http://www.mochinet.com/poets/service/index.cgi?ListTitles=Bar-Room%20Ballads&Poem=18
The Ballad of Lenin’s Tomb
This is the yarn he told me
As we sat in Casey’s Bar,
That Rooshun mug who scammed from the jug
In the Land of the Crimson Star;
That Soviet guy with the single eye,
And the face like a flaming scar.
Yet if you pass that frame of glass, peer closely at his phiz,
So stern and firm it mocks the worm, it looks like wax . . . and is.
They tell you he’s a mummy - don’t you make that bright mistake:
I tell you - he’s a dummy; aye, a fiction and a fake.
This eye beheld the bloody bomb that bashed him on the bean.
I heard the crash, I saw the flash, yet . . . there he lies serene.
And by the roar that rocked the Tomb I ask: how could that be?
But if you doubt that deed of doom, just go yourself and see.
You think I’m mad, or drunk, or both . . . Well, I don’t care a damn:
I tell you this: their Lenin is a waxen, show-case SHAM.
Not suprised that Vlad would alley-cat seeing pictures of his wife Krupskaya.
Congratulations. It's been a long time since I've seen a history program on the History Channel.
If you’ve seen photos of Mrs. Lenin, you’d be even more surprised he wasn’t gay! WOOF!
So Lenin had an excuse for his stupid ideas. What’s Pelosi’s excuse?
So that’s what’s wrong with Pelosi and the Zero.
LOL! I’m sorry, that was funny.
This whole thing explains so much, doesn’t it?
Most of ‘em had it, free love was part of the Bolshevik ideological world view
I’ve always thought that James Carville looks a lot like Lenin. Some pics in particular. I still think they share a common ancestor somewhere along the line.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.