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In Soviet and not only in historiography, Lenin was and is represented as one of the central architects of the Soviet Union. The cult of Lenin in the USSR lasted until its collapse. And Mikhail Gorbachev himself, the last leader of the USSR, initiated and carried out his own perestroikos he has called politics the Leninism of those days.
Despite his importance in the history of the Soviet Union, Ilyich was forced to end his political career quite early due to illness and later death. It was the premature death and the circumstances of his death that sparked various gossip and rumors about the real causes of Lenin’s death, which over the years also became the subject of investigation.
Official version
After a second stroke in 1922. the leader of the Bolshevik Party retired from active political activity. 1923 at the end of spring, he and his wife Nadezhda Krupskaya moved to Gorky due to illness and settled there. However, the revolutionary’s health, as evidenced by historical documents, also suddenly deteriorated in 1924. January 21 Lenin died.
“Sometimes he gasped, his body trembled, I (N. Krupskaya) held him with my hot and wet hand, then I only looked at the blood staining the handkerchief, the mark of death began to cover my pale mortal face”, were the last minutes of Lenin’s life, described in the Pravda official just three days after his death.
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