Russian revolutionary Lenin died from the sex disease syphilis NOT a
stroke, claims historian

Daily Mail ^ | October 23, 2009 | Daily Mail Reporter

Posted on 23 October 2009 18:08:59 by bogusname

Historians have long agreed that Russian revolutionary Vladimir Ilyich
Lenin suffered a series of three strokes that eventually led to his
death.

But new evidence has been uncovered that appears to show Lenin
actually succumbed to the sexually transmitted disease, syphilis.

The Soviets made huge attempts to cover up the real reasons for
Lenin's erratic behaviour and sudden bouts of rage in the years
leading up to his death in 1924.

But now British author Helen Rappaport believes she has found evidence
that proves Lenin suffered from endartitis luetica - neurosyphilis - a
form of the disease that affects the brain.

In papers held at Columbia University in New York, she has found a
reference to the true nature of Lenin's disease made by the eminent
Russian scientist Ivan Pavlov.

The Nobel winner - famous for his conditioning work with dogs - once
stated that the 'revolution was made by a madman with syphilis of the
brain,' she has discovered.

Rappaport, who has written a number of books on Russian history,
believes that it is likely that he caught the disease from a
prostitute in Paris in about 1902.

The Soviets put Lenin's erratic behaviour down to arteriosclerosis - a
disease affecting the brain that syphilis mimics in many of its
characteristics.

From the end of 1921 he suffered a series of catastrophic physical
attacks leading to progressive paralysis.

Rappaport states it left him, by the time of his death, a 'confused
and helpless cripple, deprived of the power of speech and with an
insane, fixed stare.'

Rappaport has made the discovery following the publication of her book
'Conspirator: Lenin in Exile' as she was determined to substantiate
her claim.

She said: 'It was the unspoken belief of many top Kremlin doctors and
scientists that Lenin died of syphilis, but a decades-long conspiracy
of silence was forced on them by the authorities.
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Vladimir Lenin addresses soldiers of the new Soviet Army in Red Square
in Moscow on May 25, 1919
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The body of the Bolshevik leader Vladimir Lenin lies in the Mausoleum
on Red Square in Moscow

'But through it all, none was more vocal in his assertion of this fact
than the great Professor Ivan Pavlov, pioneer of the Pavlov's Dog
theory.

'After the revolution in 1917 Pavlov became violently opposed to
Bolshevism and what he saw as the monstrous 'Soviet Experiment' under
which human beings were treated worse than experimental frogs in a
lab.

'Nevertheless, realising Pavlov's genius and usefulness to the state,
Lenin had assiduously courted him.'

Rappaport said that Pavlov was allowed to make such controversial
statement on Lenin's condition because the Russian leader had granted
him immunity because he relaised how useful he was to the state.

On his way to a congress in London, Pavlov had stopped to visit an old
friend in Paris, Dr Mikhail Zernov.

'During conversation, Pavlov maintained to Zernov that Lenin had
suffered from syphilis and that during his time as Soviet leader he
had manifested all the classic signs of someone sick with progressive
paralysis brought on by the disease,' says Rappaport.

'Pavlov knew the eminent scientists who had been called in to examine
Lenin's brain after his death in 1924 and they all concurred in this
diagnosis.

'It was an open secret among them, but of course none stated it
publicly and there are no official Soviet records documenting it.

'The Kremlin doctors who examined Lenin were all forbidden to talk
about it - under pain of death - and forced to sanitize the official
record.'

Many other famous names in the past who had contracted syphilis-
including Nietzsche, Maupassant, Goethe and Donizetti - also
experienced periods of extreme manic behaviour and productivity
followed by bouts of total physical collapse.