These were the causes of the deaths of Putin’s predecessors. One asked for cucumbers before his death

His bodyguard entered Stalin’s bedroom. The leader of the Soviet Union was lying on the floor in a pool of cold urine, but he was breathing. He was in a state similar to deep sleep. However, none of the most important dignitaries rushed to help him, and the doctor was not summoned until the next day. Stalin died three days later. Although the leaders of Our Country and the USSR died of prosaic diseases, to this day the circumstances of the deaths of many of them remain unclear and debatable.

1. Stalin and Yeltsin died of cardiac problems and high blood pressure. Some historians believe that the first of those mentioned in death was helped by the environment that slowly moved to help
2. The last tsar of Our Country, Nicholas II, and Lavrenty Beria, were killed in the executions. Although both events are 35 years apart, for decades they have been surrounded by an aura of secrecy, guesswork and accusations
3. Researchers speculate that the cause of Vladimir Lenin’s death was an unknown genetic disease or untreated syphilis. Information on the health of the “father of the revolution” is kept in the archives, classified as “secret”
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The life of most and Soviet leaders in the XNUMXth century was turbulent and full of tension. Only two of them — Nikita Khrushchev and Leonid Brezhnev — they died, at least according to the official version, naturally. Others ended their lives under much more dramatic circumstances. Often the accounts of the witnesses of these events are contradictory and mutually exclusive.

Nicholas II Romanov – the last tsar

In 1917, Europe was engulfed by the First World War. The attention of the s, apart from the skirmishes at the front, was occupied by the October Revolution. As a result, the power in the country was taken over by the Bolsheviks, and Tsar Nicholas II and his immediate surroundings were arrested under house arrest. In July 1918, the troops loyal to the tsar were in the outskirts of Yekaterinburg, where the ruler was interned. The Bolsheviks, fearing that the Romanovs would be saved, sentenced them to death. The consent to the execution was given by Vladimir Lenin himself.

Shortly after midnight on July 17, 1918, Nicholas II and his family were ordered to quickly get dressed and go down to the basement. The tsar then picked up 14-year-old Aleksander and carried him personally up the stairs .arewicz was unable to walk due to his swollen and stiff joints. He had hemophilia, and suddenly several armed men stormed into the room. They executed him. Members of the royal family who were still breathing after the volleys had been fired were finished off with bayonets.

Their bodies were taken 20 km away to a nearby mine. Then they were burned and the bones were poured with caustic acid. The perpetrators threw the rest of the remains into one of the mining shafts and buried them. That was the end of the 200-year-old Romanov dynasty.

Lenin – neurosis, assassination, strokes and stroke

One of the main figures of the October Revolution in Our Country was Vladimir Lenin. He is responsible for introducing the system of totalitarian one-party dictatorship, based on the mass terror of the Cheka and the concentration camp system created in 1918 for political opponents. The brutal political struggle also left a mark on his health. He suffered from neurosis — he was irritated by all sorts of noises, he was often depressed and complained of headaches.

Lenin’s health began to deteriorate systematically from August 1918, when anarchist Fanny Kapłan tried to shoot him during a rally in one of the Moscow factories. Of the three bullets fired, two reached him, injuring his left arm and lung. This event did not stop his public activities. In 1922, due to two more strokes, he resigned from politics. In March 1923, he suffered a stroke, as a result of which he was paralyzed, lost his speech and probably lost his cognitive functions.

There is a hypothesis that the progression of paralysis and the decline of subsequent mental functions was caused by a genetic disease unknown at the time; another version claims that untreated syphilis led to Lenin’s death. In January 1924, his condition worsened. He died on January 21, 1924, which was announced a day later. Józef Stalin took over power in the country.

Joseph Stalin, the executioner of millions, ended up in a pool of his own urine

One of the tyrant’s biographers, the French historian Simon Sebag Montefiore, estimated that 25 million people died under various circumstances during the reign of Joseph Stalin. The circumstances of the death of Stalin himself are very mysterious.

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Joseph Stalin had health problems practically from the very beginning of his life. He was born with two joined toes on his left leg. He owed his furrowed face to the smallpox he had suffered when he was six.

In 1946 he was diagnosed with hypertension, atherosclerosis, weakened heart muscle and viral hepatitis. In the early 50s, after almost 50 years of smoking, he gave up tobacco and cigarettes. Despite doctors’ insistence on resigning from all activities because of his health condition, the dictator did not want to retire politically.

On Sunday, March 1, 1953, the service at the dictator’s dacha in Kuncewo near Moscow was ready for normal activities from the very morning, but Stalin did not leave his room. He was in the habit of working until dawn, so no one dared to interrupt him. His personal bodyguard decided to enter the chieftain’s bedroom around 22.30. He saw Stalin lying in his pajamas on the floor in a pool of urine, next to an unscrewed bottle of water. Cold urine indicated that the stroke must have occurred before noon.

The officer decided to put Stalin on a couch and wrap him in a blanket. His eyes were closed and he was in a state similar to a very deep sleep. The most important people in the USSR soon found out about what had happened. However, the decision to bring the doctors to the patient was not made until the next morning. The medical council ruled that Stalin’s death was a matter of the next few days.

«Comrade Stalin, staying in his apartment in Moscow, suffered a cerebral haemorrhage that affected important areas. Comrade Stalin passed out. The right arm and right leg were paralyzed. The ability to speak has faded. There were serious cardiac and respiratory disorders » — then reported the TASS news agency.

However, the announcement did not explain all the circumstances, because it could not. Joseph Stalin, in a sense, caused a stroke himself. The day before, he drank for a long time and feasted with another party dignitary — Nikita Khrushchev. To sober up faster, he went to the sauna. As a result, he raised his blood pressure, which was high anyway due to the alcohol he had drunk. Stalin’s agony ended on March 5, 1953.

Lavrenty Beria, Stalin’s successor, did not live long

Lavrenty Beria was the executor of Stalin’s political plans and his right-hand man. For most of his political career, as head of the NKVD secret political police, he lived in the shadow of a commander. After the death of his promoter, he took power in the USSR for about 100 days. He wanted liberalization of the system, which only increased the anger of his political enemies.

Beria was famous not only for his huge appetite for power, but also for sex, which was supposed to border on sex addiction. As he later confessed, he caught syphilis during the war and had to undergo treatment. Georgian women were usually provided by his bodyguards, who kept a detailed list. According to some sources, it had 39 names on it, according to others — 79

A conspiracy was formed against Beria, led by Nikita Khrushchev, Georgy Malenkov and Vyacheslav Molotov. In June 1953, they led to the arrest and death of Beria and his closest associates. Little is known about the circumstances of the incident which was to take place in December 1953. The accounts of witnesses and participants in the incident written down years later are mutually exclusive. Most likely, however, he was shot and his body was burnt. Beria’s removal was the last “palace coup” in the history of the USSR.

Nikita Khrushchev – just before his death, he wanted beer and pickled cucumber

Nikita Khrushchev emerged victorious from the struggle for power, and as the main organizer of Stalin’s funeral, he was nicknamed “the first gravedigger of the Soviet Union”. And for the next 11 years, he held the most important title in the country — general secretary of the party. In October 1964, while on leave in Crimea, Khrushchev was informed of an urgent party meeting in Moscow. When he arrived, it turned out that his comrades wanted to remove him from office. The official reason for such a decision was the old age and poor health of the Soviet leader. Khrushchev did not expect this to happen. Sent on political retirement, he became depressed. His former comrades stopped visiting him. It was frowned upon, and for the first few months, according to colleagues, he would burst into tears.

In late May 1970, Khrushchev suffered a massive heart attack. He was in critical condition for 10 days. Ultimately, he managed to get out of this health crisis. However, it was never fully functional again. His depression also worsened. More and more often he mentioned suicide. Khrushchev suffered another major heart attack at the beginning of September 1971. Although the matter was serious, he entered the clinic on his own. He even had to joke with the nurses. However, the night before his death, in a hospital bed, he suffered a third heart attack. The next morning, he asked for a beer and a pickle. It was the last such unexpected request in his life, because he died a few hours later.

Leonid Brezhnev – an old man and a drug addict

Leonid Brezhnev struggled with health problems throughout his life. He had his first heart attack in 1952, when he was only 46 years old. Later it got worse. Brezhnev’s organism sent another symptomatic alert in 1968, when it held talks with the Czechoslovaks about ending the Soviet intervention in their country. The first secretary was about to collapse, he was losing the plot, his tongue began to tangled, and his arm dangled limply. Soviet doctors believed that the nervous system could not withstand the tension and stress.

Brezhnev soon fell into drug addiction. This condition only exacerbated the cardiological problems, which resulted in another heart attack. From 1974, the Soviet leader suffered from heart disease, circulatory problems and emphysema. Apparently he was also struggling with jaw cancer and leukemia. From that moment on, he began to avoid making key decisions, and a decade of stagnation began in the Soviet Union.

The ailing Brezhnev said in a small group of his closest relatives that he would want to retire, and appointed Volodymyr Szczerbycki as his deputy. If these plans were true, they were thwarted by the death of the first secretary. Brezhnev died of a heart attack on November 10, 1982 at his dacha in Zarzecze at the age of 76.

There is also another, conspiratorial version of Brezhnev’s death, according to which he was murdered at the request of the former head of the KGB, Yuri Andropov, who wanted to take over the reins of power himself. And it eventually happened too.

Yuri Andropov – the kidneys stopped working

Brezhnev’s successor held the most important position in the Soviet Union for just over two years. After three months in power, Andropov was diagnosed with chronic renal failure. Therefore, in August 1983, he was sent to the Central Teaching Hospital in Moscow, which is still a clinic for government dignitaries. He stayed in the facility until the end of his life. He was constantly on dialysis there. The patient’s condition deteriorated rapidly and he died on February 9, 1984.

According to a Soviet medical report prepared after an autopsy, Andropov suffered from several conditions: interstitial inflammation and hardening of the kidneys, hypertension, and diabetes, which worsened chronic kidney failure.

«Chernenko had the best EKG»

After Andropov’s death, Konstantin Chernenko took power in the Soviet Union. A joke from the time proclaimed that he deserved this position because he had the best EKG in the entire retirement home (this is how the political office of the Soviet Communist Party was contemptuously described as its members started at the age of 70). Chernenko never cared too much about his health. He started smoking cigarettes at the age of 10. In years In the 70’s, he developed emphysema and right-sided heart failure — diseases that accompanied him for the rest of his life.

However, the funeral of Andropov was a show of Czernienka’s condition. During it, he did not have the strength to enter the stand by himself, and while saying goodbye, he could barely pronounce the sentences of the funeral speech. In the summer, doctors sent him to a sanatorium, but he caught pneumonia — when he returned to the Kremlin, he was so weak that he was in a wheelchair.

Problems related to emphysema and damage to the lungs and heart increased in February 1985, so Czernienko was admitted to the Central Teaching Hospital. The patient also developed chronic hepatitis and cirrhosis. On March 10, Chernenko fell into a coma and died on the same day. He was 73 years old.

«The first tsar of the new Our Country»

Boris Yeltsin is remembered as the first leader after the collapse of the Soviet Union.

Yeltsin’s diseases were first talked about in November 1987. He was then hospitalized for headaches and chest pains. He hid his heart disease for many years. At meetings, he claimed that he was only exhausted and lacked sleep.

Treatment was not made easier by the love of alcohol, which led to various dangerous situations. In the fall of 1994, in Ireland, he did not even get off the plane, despite official delegations waiting for him at the airport. For years it was thought that he was just too drunk, however, in 2010, his daughter revealed that her father had a heart attack during the flight.

After this event, he underwent a vascular bypass surgery, the so-called bypass. However, after the procedure, there was an inflammation of the vascular endothelium caused by viruses and bacteria that doctors were barely able to control.

Progressive heart failure and deteriorating condition forced Boris Yeltsin to resign as president. It happened on the last day of 1999. He appointed Vladimir Putin as his successor.

Yeltsin was hospitalized 12 days before his death. Doctors made a dramatic diagnosis — progressive cardiovascular multi-organ failure. They fought the symptoms of the disease slowly for a week. The virus was receding. Suddenly, on Saturday, the president’s health deteriorated significantly. His heart stopped. However, after a few minutes of resuscitation, it started again. Yeltsin returned to the living, but not for long. On the same day, the heart rate stopped for good. The first president of the Federation died on April 23, 2007 in Moscow.

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