{"id":697,"date":"2012-06-06T12:25:02","date_gmt":"2012-06-06T12:25:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/heathenhistory.co.uk\/russia\/?p=697"},"modified":"2012-06-06T12:26:08","modified_gmt":"2012-06-06T12:26:08","slug":"did-stalin-have-lenin-posioned","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/heathenhistory.co.uk\/russia\/2012\/06\/06\/did-stalin-have-lenin-posioned\/","title":{"rendered":"Did Stalin have Lenin posioned ?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/heathenhistory.co.uk\/russia\/files\/2012\/06\/Lenin-on-his-death-bed1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-699\" src=\"http:\/\/heathenhistory.co.uk\/russia\/files\/2012\/06\/Lenin-on-his-death-bed1-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>&#8220;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&#8230; &#8220;<\/em> Well perhaps.<\/p>\n<p>Lenin&#8217;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 ?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2012\/05\/08\/health\/research\/lenins-death-remains-a-mystery-for-doctors.html\">This<\/a>\u00a0article from the New York Post focuses on his death, stating Dr Lurie&#8217;s view\u00a0&#8220;<em>that poison was in his opinion the most likely immediate cause of Lenin\u2019s 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&#8221;.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>It is hard to question the motive or the track record of Stalin &#8211; however, perhaps a bit more evidence is required before we re-write the Russian history books&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Kydd<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;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&#8230; &#8220; Well perhaps. Lenin&#8217;s early death certainly does matter to us however. It &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/heathenhistory.co.uk\/russia\/2012\/06\/06\/did-stalin-have-lenin-posioned\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-697","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/heathenhistory.co.uk\/russia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/697","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/heathenhistory.co.uk\/russia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/heathenhistory.co.uk\/russia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/heathenhistory.co.uk\/russia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/heathenhistory.co.uk\/russia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=697"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/heathenhistory.co.uk\/russia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/697\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":701,"href":"http:\/\/heathenhistory.co.uk\/russia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/697\/revisions\/701"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/heathenhistory.co.uk\/russia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/heathenhistory.co.uk\/russia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/heathenhistory.co.uk\/russia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}