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Topic: Lenin died of syphilis, doctors say
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skdadl
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posted 20 July 2004 04:45 PM
Hmmmn. Krupskaya lived until 1939, which doesn't necessarily prove much, but still. It is true that syphilis was rampant and incurable at the time. I think it is also known that Lenin had a lover during his Paris years; she and Krupskaya became close as well, though, and the marriage seems to have been very strong and close. Also, the descriptions of Lenin's last illness are entirely consistent with the traditional diagnosis, a series of strokes. So given that the syphilis speculation is entirely speculative, I am wondering ... why?
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beverly
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posted 20 July 2004 05:16 PM
Whose penis is in a jar? Is that Napoleon's? Or is that another urban myth?There certainly is a fascination with the sex lives of famous folk through the centuries? I read that Hitler had a "puny purple member" in one book. I also read, aside, that Stalin kept Hitler's remains on ice and in later years when half crazed he would insist that Hitler was a live and trying to get him andhe would have the head brought out. Gross.
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'lance
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posted 20 July 2004 05:22 PM
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Whose penis is in a jar? Is that Napoleon's? Or is that another urban myth?
Dunno about Napoleon, but one (false) urban legend has it that John Dillinger's penis is in the collection of the Smithsonian. quote:
I also read, aside, that Stalin kept Hitler's remains on ice and in later years when half crazed he would insist that Hitler was a live and trying to get him andhe would have the head brought out.
This would be an interesting variation on the story that Hitler's body wasn't actually cremated in Berlin in 1945, or even that Hitler didn't commit suicide. So, if Stalin had Hitler's remains, how and when (and where) was Hitler supposed to have died, I wonder? [ 20 July 2004: Message edited by: 'lance ]
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Fidel
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posted 20 July 2004 06:09 PM
Interesting. A documentary on the nazis(and there seem to be a lot of them a lately on theHistory Channel) said that Hitler took cyanide as red army troops were just metres away from the bunker where he was holed up. Himmler apparently cyanided himself not long after being captured. They apparently would have preferred surrendering to the American's rather than the Russian's. One documentary I saw showed how determined the Russian's were to beat then nazis. Men, women and kids helped to lay railway track every inch of the way to Berlin. As the nazis advanced toward Stalingrad and Moscow in '42, hundreds of thousands of Russian and Jewish partizani's packed up munitions plants and materials and carried them on horse-back and on foot over the frozen Ural mountains where it was all re-assembled and started up again. The battle for Kursk, Ukraine was the largest tank battle in history. Lots of blood, weat and tears. Many tears. cheers! [ 20 July 2004: Message edited by: Fidel ]
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skdadl
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posted 21 July 2004 03:39 PM
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Originally posted by Fidel:
Ronald Raygun died of Alzheimer's. It was God's revenge. 
Sorry to be a bore, but I am required to do this: Fidel, a number of babblers have loved ones dying of Alzheimer's. Is that your message to them, that their loved ones are suffering God's revenge? One day, anyone here could be diagnosed with Alzheimer's. Will that be God's revenge on us, Fidel? On you?
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