December 21 was the 126th birthday of Soviet
leader Joseph Stalin. Historian and publicist Nikolay Dobryukha says the
Kremlin archives contain documented evidence proving that Stalin was
poisoned.
The discovered documents absolutely disprove all affirmations saying that Stalin
died of cerebral hemorrhage caused by his poor health. These documents
are the records of Stalin's medical examination within the period of
over 30 years. These documents also demonstrate that Stalin was not at
all apprehensive of medical examinations and was not afraid of receiving
treatment of doctors as it was rumored. It was also said that for fear
to visit doctors Stalin often resorted to self-medication. In fact,
highly-qualified doctors were called for in case of Stalin's slightest
indisposition and had close medical examination of the high-ranking
client all day round.
Records made in September 1947 state that Joseph
Stalin had initial stage hypertension, also chronic articular rheumatism
and overfatigue. Doctor Kirillov made a record of Stalin's blood
pressure – 145 per 85 – which was excellent for his age of 67 at that
time.
At the age of 70, Stalin's blood pressure made up
140 per 80 and the pulse made up 74 beats per minute before taking bath.
After the bath, blood pressure dropped to 138 per 75 and the pulse made
up 68 per minute. The Soviet leader
did not complain of bad sleep, had regular bowel movements and was fine
in general. The medical records show Stalin had the blood pressure of
140 per 80 and the pulse 70 beats per minute at the age of 72. At that,
the latter measuring was made when Stalin had flu and fever. It is
unlikely that younger and healthier people can register similar showing.
And this is astonishing that no other medical record mentions of the
initial stage hypertension of Stalin.
It was not true when some people stated that “Stalin was seriously ill,
especially after the dramatic stress he endured during WWII”. These
talks appeared as soon as bulletins about Stalin's health were published
for the first time on March 4, 1953. These official bulletins stated
that on the night of March 2 Joseph Stalin had cerebral hemorrhage
caused by his hypertension and atherosclerosis.
The false statements were encouraged by Lavrentiy
Beria and his protйgйs Malenkov and Khrushchev as soon as they became
leaders of the country.
The discovered documents reveal that the Soviet
leader got poisoned within February 28 – March 1, 1953, between the
Saturday night and Monday, the period when majority of doctors cannot be
reached for because of their day off. That was done on purpose to give
the poison enough time to take effect.
But it is not also ruled out that conspirators first immediately poisoned Stalin and only after that his double fell victim
of the poison as well. In fact, Beria did not expect the poisoning
would be so protracted and that is why he felt incredibly nervous. On
March 4, newspapers controlled by Beria reported that “Stalin had
cerebral hemorrhage staying in his Moscow apartment on the night of
March 2” which was not true because Stalin died at the out-of-town
residence. Why did Beria need to report the leader died in his Moscow
apartment? Probably he spread misinformation to use Stalin's look-alike:
maybe Stalin died immediately after poisoning staying in the
out-of-town residence and his double “fell ill” in an instant in the
Kremlin and then on the night of March 2 was moved to the out-of-town
residence to substitute the already dead Lord. In a word, Beria's plan
turned out to be not quite smooth. To be on the safe side, when it was
publicly announced Stalin was dead Beria still arrested the head of a
laboratory making poisons for secret killings.
Many people knew that Beria was going to wage war
against Stalin. His son Sergo said that father highly likely schemed
something against Stalin with the help of his supporters in law
enforcement structures and with his own intelligence structure that was not controlled by any of the governmental structures.
Stalin's bodyguards say that the leader got poisoned
immediately after he drank mineral water. Indeed, Stalin was found dead
lying near a table on which a bottle with mineral water and a glass
stood. The poison took effect instantaneously. Some sources state that
Stalin fell down dead and others insist he fell down unconscious.
Study of the archives revealed that on November 8,
1953 the Kremlin sanitary department wanted to hand “medicaments and
three empty mineral water battles” over to the Stalin Museum. But for
some reason, the department handed just two empty bottles to the Museum
on November 9. What is the secret of the third lost bottle?
The journal kept by doctors treating Stalin brings to nothing the memoirs and researches of Stalin's last illness and death.
As seen from the records in the journal the doctors obviously
understood that Stalin was poisoned. This is proved by prescriptions
they made: ice application to the head; sweet tea with lemon; catharsis
with sulfur-acid magnesia and so on.
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