What killed Lenin? Stress ... and maybe poison

Friday, May 4, 2012 - 12:00 in Health & Medicine

Doctors say stress, a genetic predisposition to strokes and possibly even poison hastened the death of Vladimir Lenin, contradicting a popular theory that syphilis debilitated the late Soviet leader.

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