one thirty pm in moscow these here are the headlights of fanning the flames as you and mediators struggle to get the warring sides in syria to go to the negotiating table london vows to keep sending cash to the rebels in their fight against the united states dozens of u.s. allies expected to commit more support to the opposition at an international conference sunday. the recent shooting rampage carried out by a french gunman in toulouse draws presidential candidates in a fierce of pre-election rhetoric over extremism in immigration mohammed morales

actions being used by some far right candidates to attack french immigration policy . spain's prime minister set to announce a new way of austerity cuts a day after a nationwide strike means to violence between protesters and police the cuts are aimed at saving the country tens of billions of europe's. up next we dig up the past to unravel the pages of history of the soviet files stay with us here on our. western siberia this secret munitions factory became public knowledge after the fall of the soviet union here special capsules known as the kremlin pill will make my hand exclusively for the top brass. the health of the leaders of the soviet union was always shrouded in secrecy. private doctors looking after them had a very risky job with their very lives not just a careers were at stake. well

a new branch of the soviet union from nine hundred sixty four to nine hundred eighty two in one thousand seventy six regime suffered clinical death. estonia and atherosclerosis died on november tenth one thousand nine hundred eighty two from heart failure. during precious reign the term trend in medicine the quote special significance the average age of the politburo as members was around eighty the country's leaders needed constant medical attention that's why doctors went through a special procedure to be selected for work at the facility. but i had been under some form of surveillance my mom died back in nineteen forty six when i was born. when i was getting a job they even wanted to know the number of my mother's grave. in his later years

before brezhnev was due to appear in public doctors would give him strong drugs to help him focus even then he couldn't concentrate for more than ten minutes. of heart attacks and stroke certainly undermine his health at the top of a brazen if was dependent on sleeping pills all of that together made him completely to crap and. was lynn oppression of us the elderly general secretary was known to have patronized the woman at some point without his knowing she can supply brezhnev with large amounts of sleeping pills the general secretary suffered from insomnia. i tried to press on him psychologically when i was talking to lay in it so i would say you know you should get rid of the nurse nina he everyone must force right through including a drop of. her influence on him was tremendous. eventually pressure never

agreed to break off his relationship with a nice to. make his parting with the the tourist woman less painful he switched his attention to his favorite pastime hunting an expedition was arranged for him and the criminals medics into small side really. really known as junior as a workshop that occupies an entire story in an old building in central moscow she has a laboratory on the ground floor jr is a healer specializing in unconventional practices that require no physical contact with the patients. they als has the sort of characteristics that i have been examined to institutes of and you could be six southern radio and trunks and technology. dozens of people undergo treatment here each day according to gina in a britain it was one of the first clients. however his relatives flatly deny her

claim but once i received a call from a kremlin employee could you carol any prisoner be asked i said i wasn't sure but am i trying then you know when the family is aware of that joe would simply have been barred from his duty saying that some woman off the street was allowed to healin oppression of his rubbish and he cheated. the criminal champers were obliged to watch the health of the linux version and one of them was victor but i think he was cool how chefs had to refuse question of what his favorite meal ministries call that the full of his doctor's recommendation. but. i remember the way poultry was served in soviet times there would be enough fuel months now look different in those days the coat of arms could never be hidden it would serve as the basis of the side dish of m.

i'm a guard you is the coat of arms was a sacrosanct zimbalist was little or the sheriff had to result to all sorts of tricks to keep the whole away from it had a detrimental effect on his health the bottles that were placed on his table looked like they were filled with cognac and in fact they contained a drink made of roast head most of the roots he was a had a different color to cognac they took a some time to come up with a way to resolve the problem with and we added lemon juice to it to disguise the difference some ten bottles with each reception were put down on the table the most important thing was not to get them mixed up. bush never could hardly rule it can. treater in the last year before his death his health failed completely alter a visit to tashkent authorities but how did to get a mess of workers across factory to welcome him they looked on from scaffolding which suddenly collapsed fracturing his collarbone and off the back doctors kept a watchful eye on his every step. there were special senses under the mess there

was no one direction of god help during the night as he would step on the sides and soon caught up with us alerting the man. that you the body guards took some time to get to his bedroom because they were in a separate house would make a bit but he would get work or going to walk out at seven o'clock in the morning i immediately called a british athlete and when i said i have a sense there is something wrong with that impression if you stop talking nonsense kind of life he's ok everything's normal but she called me back three hours later to say that pressure. of the general secretary of the communist party was buried in front of the walls of the kremlin next to the lenin mausoleum on red square. the new millennium only on the founder of the sole issue it was the head of state

from nineteen seventeen until nineteen twenty four in may nineteenth twenty two he became seriously ill and was almost completely disabled until his death according to official accounts he died from from those close of. service or current footage depicted in it as a cheerful man full of energy capable of working in english round the clock according to official soviet records lennon was in perfect health he took an abrupt turn for the worse of the term from his life by sussan funny complaint in one thousand eighteen. this is how the episode is shown in a soviet film released in the one nine hundred thirty s. . opinion is still diverted a mother lost her plan was to shoot at the turn of the assassination attempt on the

side was so cool she could hardly see people salutes the claim that lennon's health shockley deteriorated as a result of poison put it is also debatable. spent decades studying lennon's medical history the daily said there were plans to fill the bullets with a poison called curry which is incredibly potent that later hospitals used it as an anesthetic and that the fact is that when the bullet leaves the barrel a poison becomes in effect of will become point is immediately destroyed by very high temperatures. in one to twenty two lead and moved into his residence limo sky . during the last months of his life he will always completely insane this picture was taken by his sister. is in the official diagnosis of course a disease that causes death was hidden from the public for many years.

after foreign doctors came to examine lennon they said in letters dated back to nine hundred twenty two that he had syphilis the diagnosis was confirmed in one nine hundred twenty four with lennon's death lennon's inner circle was aware of this but no one else was supposed to know and the post-mortem report was grossly falsified. joseph stalin juba shrieking bloody murder lenin successor head of state from nineteen twenty four to one hundred fifty three to four deaths here cured his doctors of the liberal press when he suffered a stroke during the night and did not get up at the usual time for the associates did not have the courage to check on the paralyzed leader for almost the day stellan died on march the fifth nineteen forty three in a coma. jurors are stored in the tories transit center dictator has

a reputation for being overly suspicious of millions of people were subjected to political repression under his rule it was dominated by his prius. one of his residence was merely greets and up because yet despite the fact it was high in the mountains it was surrounded by thousands of gods even here stone and dreaded the prospect of any attempts on his life sentence stolen always sense with his face turned to the windows in this way human it's almost a situation outside because he was afraid of attempts on his life on the walls of the rooms produced edema glow red lights a few headaches besides the curtains were trained so that she could satisfy himself that there would be outside it was going to recess and him. a motor boat which shuttle across lake greets a supply of his residence with meals be aboard the smell of cooking. this is this is one of three bedrooms of joseph stalin all three looked quite alike so this is

because during the night stalin might go to another room to make sure that nobody is you way he was at any particular moment she feared for his life. towards the end of his life still in suspected his daughters of spying. a few dozen medics were arrested under his personal orders they were brought to the security ministry where they were forced to say that they had deliberately meted out incorrect diagnosis to put soviet leaders to death. and the case. against the doctor was treated a vehement propaganda campaign and cared for in the press and on the radio and television. things went so far that many patients turned down surgery for conditions that required treatment for. ukraine of the supreme soviet of the u.s.s.r. dr levy a commercial has been awarded the order of lenin for her assistance to the

government in unmasking killer dr. in one hundred forty eight heart specialist lydia to measure sent a letter to the kremlin saying she disagreed with the way doctors to treat as you've gone off a high ranking soviet official of the criminal nor the letter however four years later it was found in archives by that time stalin was already obsessed he thought physicians were trying to harm him to michigan now provided the basis of a criminal case stolen couldn't see the case through however i see died on march the fifth nine hundred fifty three. and i have no doubt that a stalin had lived long enough those doctors would have been executed in light of reports exposing the group of saboteur doctors even stalin's death came off as a bad joke you know many people would say whispers. has been healed to death. he. started his close associates degree to choose the doctor's case before the board it

would have been hailed as the leader of all nations was even placed in the muslim can read square stonings personality cult was later denounced by his successor it is a crucial for plays a stalin was very close to the muslim lydia to richard was stripped of the order of living and the alleged seven daughters were released from prison they were even allowed to resume their work at the kremlin. mission free accreditation free transport charges free. range which three years free. to charge free. download free volunteers clothing video for your project and a free meal dog a hard time. to.

treat in tomsk siberia here so-called kremlin pills are made this particular drug is unique it contains no chemicals and doesn't dissolve in stomach acid rather it is a small electronic device going to stall the chip inside is two by two millimeters with a thousand transistors super microelectronics in those days the criminal pill is slightly larger than the beam once it is in the body it's not generating impulses emulating the rhythms of a young healthy body. after the breakup of the soviet union pharmacies began sending kremlin pills the device was hailed as the cure of the future and at the

beginning sales skyrocketed somebody had recommended it to me i felt that if the users in the kremlin might help my mother so i bought it dimitri's mother has just gone through complicated abdominal surgery which is all stopped as for permission to use the kremlin pill but will it work. through they would have been. pure remembers live to a very old age their lifespan was about ninety years whereas ordinary people lived until fifty or sixty on average worldly wisdom put their longevity down some special medicines including the kremlin pill were they were. here in group general secretary of the communist party of the soviet union central committee nine hundred eighty two to ninety four diagnosis progress a reason for your requiring kidney dialysis he died on fire in the ninth one thousand nine hundred. dockery of guinea chazal as many put it bureau members

and was on friendly terms with antelope of for a long time he knew better than anyone else that a group of was unfit to rule the country however his opinion and that of other kremlin doctors was not heeded. deal i did all i could. i supported on drop off for eighteen years why didn't. i think he'd still been alive and in charge. i mean one thousand nine percent sure of the soviet union would never have collapsed when you get. at the time he was appointed and throughput looked different from the other members of the politburo of he was younger more energetic and had a high i.q. his work shuttle was filled with meetings but those closest to him knew that every day doctors used to connect and propose to a kidney dialysis machine. but it was a cumbersome piece of equipment you know talk to colleagues were working on

a miniature machine the size of a briefcase. for they did create something of that car and it being fed regrettably it was too late for them to put it to use. after the collapse of the soviet union the newspaper proved to blame dr charles ofen of the kremlin doctors for the space of soviet leaders deaths. when they are a presenting. it can only be surprising how many fatal contingencies the last soviet leaders had to collide with it would be interesting to know from there can initiate chances if the rapid health worsening of the soviet leaders could be a result of an outrageous incompetence of doctors or and thoroughly planned subversive back which was accurately calculated won't be carried and fulfilled by the so called qualified doctors kill you but i took the news paper and

came to a meeting of academics. where i said you did call explicit i have to tell you you know better twelve of you sitting here you are going to be subject to prosecution. and what they say after they heard that they decided to write an official letter to craft a newspaper and said you're making a second case against oxalis. was so intimidated by that's been decided to publish it. and of the u.s.s.r. from nine hundred fifty three one thousand nine hundred sixty four no chronic diseases were detected in him during his stint in office the only solution leader removed from power for what was officially described as health reasons died at the age of seventy seven seven years after his resignation. according to his

contemporaries crucial for was healthier than any of the soviet leader unlike prison if he didn't care much for ready made scripts of his speeches and instead often improvised at all to did accompany him during his international visits but only to be on the safe side the job was to give crucial medical assistance of a special kind the fact is that he was the calmest to politicians. the only other person. in the medical profession and he was a thirty young lady a throat specialist but that had nothing to do with the permanent state of his health it was simply because he talked too much and too loudly. effected his roco chords so what she had to do was to sit here in france and spray some some stuff inside his growth. during his last year at the helm of the soviet union seventy year old crucial spend more than one hundred thirty days travelling inside and

outside the country in october nineteenth sixty fourth he decided to go on vacation in the cozy meanwhile a trillion plus was brewing in moscow the culmination of crucial being removed from office as soon as he returned. the official reason. his advanced age which i fully agree with because he was then over seventy five in the second reason was and increase in ill health. now i did see them sort of before. inventing a question and i knew perfectly well that he was in an excellent state of health. but the last general secretary in the communist party nine hundred eighty five ninety ninety one came to power at the age of fifty four the only surviving leader from the soviet era. the central committee of the communist party the soviet union

mikhail gorbachev as general secretary. because gorbachev was elected in much night in eighty five a wind of change was in the end of the strike it was announced in the country like the key to crucial. for the people he talked with in the franken straightforward manner he was far more find and civilized. yes closer to the people close enough. which often appeared in public together with his wife a practice previously unseen among of the soviet leaders. was active in the nation's public life in servia times many people resented the habit they blame the country's first lady to sway gorbachev decisions. racegoer died of leukemia in september one thousand nine hundred nine before passing away she said that forming victims of a severe illness and dying would be the only way to get people to understand her

this time the kremlin medicine was helpless. i am missing a friend and i have lost during his hard struggle my beloved wife if that's what is lacking in my life i always remember that. words yields president of russia nine hundred ninety one thousand nine hundred ninety nine suffered from heart disease eight years after his resignation he died of progressive cardiovascular and multiple organ failure in april two thousand and seven. in the early nine hundred ninety s. and then he saw yeltsin as a hero in august ninety ninety one he stood at the head of a movement of resistance to places he wanted to preserve the soviet regime he displayed energy and resolution. before long however rumors creeping around moscow were claiming that sharing

a banquet table with yeltsin was fraught with unpredictable consequences. when they were. we do when they began pouring into these losses that yeltsin grimaced and turned around and stood with us with the courage chip us there was a soil table filled with tumblers and claws told us. gilson used to drink tea out of a glass like this. then boris yeltsin reached out for six tumblers and placed them on the table all the way to go to trial for the more fuel the brilliance of what you. we're going to drink from these he declared. when yeltsin was a young man he was an enthusiastic and skillful sports will this help his career in the communist party in the euros here he was reputed to be

a no nonsense tough administration knew that he would have a difficult the liberalism is. after he moved to moscow to take the post to president quite a few people among his associates were noted for weird practices one of them yuri man and was a professional psychic. said it was possible to improve ratings summit so that they would be beyond the reach of opponents give me forty five minutes of any mainstream restates annals and the certain candidate would be elected as this is called the management of the collective mind the management of the audience. in the league of the nine hundred ninety six elections president yeltsin was going out of his way to demonstrate that he was physically fit for now the term of office he was indeed elected for a second stint but he paid a price for his exertions wilson urgently needed heart bypass surgery it was decided to be complex operation would be performed in russia it lasted several

hours cardiac surgeon at a cure and was in charge of a team of doctors. everyone thought the yeltsin would not survive that operation knew we need it because of all the stress the contraction function of his heart was a ruin from the only person who said there was a chance of success it was me. i said that we should prepare him for the surgery. after the operation and stayed at the helm of the nation for nearly four more years he resigned on the last day of the twentieth century. or clamor leaving again i did what i could yeah. i want to ask for your forgiveness. as far as i can remember this is the one and only cases where a head of state complete power decided by himself to leave. it was

a sign of great courage. the yeltsin era has already receded into history many myths about kremlin medicine a gradually fading sales of the miracle criminal pill have almost fizzled out despite being described as a cure all. and dimitri the young man who bought the soviet device for his mother only found out a short time ago that it had nothing to do with the kremlin at all it was just a bogus promotional campaign and soon after the fall of the soviet union of course i was somewhat surprised because there was a legend attached to the pill when you first hear about of immediately attraction is its name. circe or pill and afterwards you live for two hundred years. and that's just nonsense don't believe the rubbish.

stringent selection procedure is a still applied to doctors wishing to join the system of medical care provided for the country's top most officials it is an established fact that the kremlin's inhabitants no longer turn to healers or clairvoyance however they do to keep fit and hell the kremlin's doctors protect them from ill health is still a state secret.