Vladimir Lenin, the Russian revolutionary and architect of the Soviet Union, died from syphilis caught from a Parisian prostitute and not from a stroke as has always been believed, new research has claimed.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1222209/Lenin-died-syphilis-NOT-stroke-claims-historian.html

 

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