“As a baby, Lenin had a head so large that he often fell over. He used to bang his head on the floor, making his mother worry… “ Well perhaps.
Lenin’s early death certainly does matter to us however. It makes him very difficult to analyse. Had Lenin lived another twenty years what would have happened about the Cheka ? Would the NEP have become permanent ?
This article from the New York Post focuses on his death, stating Dr Lurie’s view “that poison was in his opinion the most likely immediate cause of Lenin’s death. The most likely perpetrator? Stalin, who saw Lenin as his main obstacle to taking over the Soviet Union and wanted to get rid of him”.
It is hard to question the motive or the track record of Stalin – however, perhaps a bit more evidence is required before we re-write the Russian history books….
Mr Kydd
Very interesting article. Did Lenin die naturally through an inherited disease? or was Stalin having him secretly poisoned? I guess we will never know. But if Lenin had lived with the help of medicines we now have in the modern day, Russian history would certainly have been very different.
I think you were right all along sir, there is most definitely a striking resemblance between Lenin and Mr.Pod? I believe there was some rumours that Lenin wasn’t actually dead, maybe he lives on? Scary stuff.