now five thirty pm here in the russian capital. a few headlines now israeli. palestinian protesters in the west bank with clashes are checkpoints escalating reports of at least one person killed. over thirty years ago. french police and. twenty suspected islamists in

a series of raids in several cities across the country in the wake of the recent killings well of french presidential hopefuls. during their campaign. despite officially prompting a un peace plan for syria nato countries are still funding the rebels. the opposition hundreds of thousands of us. stay with us for a very special documentary next we dig up the past to unravel the pages of history in the soviet files as we focus on the late. western siberia this secret munitions factory became public knowledge after the fall of the soviet union. special capsules known as the kremlin pill were made by hand exclusively for the top brass. of the health of the leaders of the soviet

union was always shrouded in secrecy. private doctors looking after them had a very risky job their very lives not just their careers were at stake. elaine aggression head of the soviet union from nine hundred sixty four from one thousand nine hundred two in one nine hundred seventy six gresham 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 used constant medical attention that's why doctors went through a special procedure to be selected for work at

a facility that 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 jolt 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 in focus even then he couldn't concentrate for more than ten minutes. of heart attacks and strokes certainly undermine his health on top of a brazen f. was dependent on sleeping pills like that those are good all of that together made him completely to crap it. was linnet precious personal not us the elderly general secretary was known to have patronized the woman at some point without because knowing she began supplying brezhnev with large amounts of sleeping pills the general secretary suffered from insomnia. i tried to press on him and

psychologically when i was talking to lay in it so i would say you know you should get rid of the nurse nina everyone must force what i think including and that were for her influence on him was tremendous. eventually pressure never agreed to break off his relationship with us. make his parting with the notorious woman less painful he switched his attention to his favorite pastime hunting an expedition was arranged for him and the kremlin's medics in the small side of really. really known as junior has a workshop that occupies an entire story in an old building in central moscow. she has a look on the ground floor jr is a healer specializing in unconventional practices the require no physical contact with the patient. i think nobody else has the sort of characteristics that i have

been examined just institutes of nuclear physics. radio and tronics and technology . thousands of people undergo treatment here each day according to juneau in oppression of 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 kill any british and if they asked i said i wasn't sure but i try. no one in the family is aware of that joe would simply have been barred from his team saying that some woman off the street was allowed to heel linnets brezhnev his rubbish and he cheated. the kremlin chance we're obliged to watch the health of liberation of one of them was victor but. the recalls how chefs have to refuse pressure with his favorite meal ministries cutlet the full of his doctor's recommendation.

but. i remember the way poultry was served in soviet times there would have been also the woman's now look different in those days the coat of arms could never be hidden it would be it serves as the basis of the side dish of m m a o a guard you because the coast was a sacrosanct zimbelman balls and it were to share such results of all sorts of tricks to keep alcohol away from brushing that it had a detrimental effect on his health the bottles that were placed on his table looked like they were filled with cognac but in fact they contained a drink made of rose hip most of the roots hit water had a different color to cognac but it took us some time to come up with a way to resolve the problem with and we added lemon juice to it to disguise the difference with some ten bottles but you trisection put down on the table the most important thing was not to get them mixed up. could hardly rule it. creature in the last year before his death his health phil completely after a visit to tashkent authorities but how did together

a mess of workers going across factory to welcome him they looked on from scaffolding which suddenly collapsed fracturing his collarbone off the best doctors kept a watchful eye on his every step. there were special senses under the mat there was one person if it got up during the night he would step on the census does alerting the men andijon usual group they give the bodyguards took some time to get to his bedroom because they were in a separate house would be compressed but he would get her through were going to walk out at seven o'clock in the moanin i immediately called depression athlete then when i said i have a sense there is something wrong with nanny pression if you're going to stop talking nonsense i replied he's ok everything's normal but she called me back three hours later to say the depression died or.

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. only on the founder of the sole issue he was the head of state from nineteen seventeen until nineteen twenty four in may nineteenth twenty june he became seriously ill and was almost completely disabled until his death according to official accounts he died from cancer those close ups of. the serious holocaust footage depicted linnen as a cheerful man full of energy capable of working almost round the clock according to official soviet records lennon was in perfect health because he took an abrupt turn for the worse after the attempt on his life by assessing from the 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 mr the florida mother loved her plan was to shoot at the turn of the assassination attempt the other side was circle 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 they did anything but her plans to fill the bullets with a poison called courage which is incredibly potent later hospitals used it as an anesthetic for the fact is that when the bullet leaves the barrel the poison becomes ineffective when the compound is immediately destroyed by very high temperature that. in one thousand twenty two lennon moved into his residence limo sky. during the last months of his life almost completely insane this picture was

taken by his sister. it's in the official diagnosis of chronic disease that causes death was hidden from the public for many years. after thorn doctors came to examine lennon they said in letters dated back to one thousand twenty two thirty had cephalus the diagnosis was confirmed in one nine hundred twenty four with lennon's death lennon's inner circle was aware of this of no one else was supposed to know and the post mortem report was grossly falsified. joseph stalin jewfish meeting the new millennium successor head of state from one hundred twenty four to one hundred fifty three before death he accuses doctors of deliberate now fred when he suffered a stroke during the night and did not get up at the usual time the associates did

not have the courage to check on the paralyzed leader for the day stallin died on march the fifth nineteen thirty three in a coma. jews are stored in a dettori is twentieth century dictator had a reputation for being overly suspicious millions of people were subjected to political repression under his rule it was dominated by his previous. one of his residence was nearly enough 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 knife stand still and always sent with his face turned to the windows in this way simoni told the situation outside because he was afraid of attempts on his life on the walls of the rooms produced a dim glow print lights came in handy besides the curtains were trimmed so that he could satisfy himself that nobody outside was going to sesame. a motivation which

shows him because late greets a supplier at his residence for meals pay a board the smell of cooking. this is this is one of three bedrooms of johns of style in all three you look quite alike this is because during the night stalin might go to another room to make sure that nobody knew way he was at any particular moment he fears for his life. towards the end of his life still in suspected his doctors a spine a few dozen medics were arrested under his personal orders they were boards of the security ministry where they were forced to say that they had deliberately meted out incorrect orders is to put soviet leaders to death. argue the case. against the documents treated yeah a vehement propaganda campaign. in the press and on the radio and television. things went so far that many patients turned

surgery for conditions that required treatment for. ukraine or the supreme soviet of the us who saw dr leidy a few mushroom has been awarded the order of lenin for her assistance from the government in unmasking killer doctors. in one hundred forty eight heart specialist lydia to sent a letter to the kremlin saying she disagree with the way doctors to treat issue donald a high ranking service official but the criminal ignored the letter however four years later it was found in archives but that time stalin was already obsessed before physicians were trying to hold him to michigan now provided the basis of a criminal case stone and couldn't see the case through however as he died on march the fifth one hundred fifty three insinuations to mr 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 in whispers stalin has been healed to death. he. started his close associates agreed to use the focus case before the body of what had been hailed as the leader of all nations was even placed in the muslim in red square stalin's personality cult was later denounced by his successor the key to crucial. later stalin was very close to the muslim lydia temperature was stripped of the order of lenin and the alleged saboteurs doctors were released from prison they were even allowed to resume their work at the kremlin. wealthy british style. that's not on. the. markets why not.

find out what's really happening to the global economy in the cause report on r t. a look or a treat in tomsk siberia this 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 and the criminal pill is slightly larger than the pain 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 selling kremlin pills the device was hailed as the cure of the future and of the beginning sales skyrocketed. somebody had recommended it to me i felt that if they used it in the kremlin it might help my mother so i bought it dimitri's mother has

just gone through complicated abdominal surgery she's asked doctors for permission to use the kremlin pill but will it work. clearly but a group of your members lived 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 where they were. here in group general secretary of the communist party of the soviet union central committee nine hundred eighty to ninety four diagnosis progress arranged for your requiring kidney dialysis he died on further in the ninth one thousand nine hundred . doctor you get each as old as many put it to your own members and was on friendly terms with for a long time he knew better than anyone else that i drop off was unfit to rule the

country however his opinion and that of other kremlin doctors was not heeded. but the deal i did all i could. so i supported on drop off for eighteen years why do you think. i said he'd still been alive and in charge. i mean one thousand nine percent short of the soviet union would never have collapsed when you have a serious. at the time he was appointed and group of look different from the other members of the politburo he was younger more energetic and had a high i.q. his work shuttle was filled with meetings and those closest to him knew that every day doctors used to connect and report 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 stars were briefcase. they did create something of that car

and you think that regrettably it was too late for them to put it to use. after the collapse of the soviet union and use paper proof to claim the pitch as open 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 lassoed leaders had to collide with it would be interesting to know from their kind of mission chancellor if the rapid health worsening of the soviet leaders could be a result of an outrageous incompetence of doctors or the thoroughly planned subversive back which was accurately calculated won't be paired and fulfilled by the so called qualified doctors cancel. bishnoi took the news paper and came to a meeting of academics. where i said their colleague school i have to tell

you that twelve of you sitting here are you. going to be subject to prosecution. but after they heard. they decided to write an official letter to craft a newspaper it said you're making a second case against dr this. was so intimidated by that simple because of it decided to publish it. end of the u.s.s.r. from nineteen fifty three to nineteen 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 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

a deal to did accompany him during his international visits but only to be on the safe side the job was to give crucial for medical assistance of a special kind the fact is that he was the calmest of politicians. the only other person. in the medical profession was a fairly young lady a throat specialist but that had nothing to do with the permanent state of his health it was simply because he put too much and too loudly. effected his vocal chords so what she had to do was to say. spray some some stuff inside was throat. during his last year at the helm of the soviet union seventy year old crucial spend more than one hundred fifty days travelling inside and outside the country in october nineteenth sixty fourth he decided to go on vacation in the cosiest meanwhile a trillion plus was brewing in most goods it culminated in crucial being removed

from office as soon as he returned the official reason be his advanced age which i fully agree because he was then over seventy at the second reason walls and increase in ill health. now. for the. question and i knew perfectly well that he was an excellent state of health. the last general secretary of 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. job which office general secretary. because gorbachev was elected in march night in eighty five

a wind of change was in the air at a strike i was a mouse in the country like nikita khrushchev. but the people he talked with enough franken straightforward manner he was far more find and civilized. gets closer to people close enough. which often appeared in public together with his wife practiced previously unseen among other service leaders. was active in the nation's public life in servia times many people resent the habit they blame the country's first lady for swaying decisions. grace ago died of leukaemia in september one thousand nine hundred ninety 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. but i am missing a friend i have lost during his hard struggle my beloved wife that's what is

lacking in my life i always remember that. morris shields 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. in the early ninety nine he's many store yeltsin as a hero in august one thousand nine hundred 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 full with unpredictable consequences.

to regular. we didn't when they began pouring clearly ek into these losses and grimaced and turned around with those with what we call it share cute there was a sewing table filled with tumblers and girls told us. yeltsin used to drink tea out of the glass like this then boris yeltsin reached out for six tumblers can place them on the table all the way to go to trial from off the rim of. what you. were going to drink from these he declared. when he was a young man he was an enthusiastic and skillful sportsman this helped 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 day to pull the lever isn't right. after he moved to moscow to take the post of president quite

a few people among his associates for weird practices one of them yuri mountain 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 maintain the state handles and a certain candidate would be elected this is called the management of the collective mind the management of the audience. leave of the nine hundred ninety six elections president yeltsin was going out of his way to demonstrate that he was physically fit from the time of peace he was indeed elected for a second stint but he paid a price for his exertions. lead a heart bypass surgery it was decided that the complex operation would be performed in russia it lasted several hours cardiac surgeon or a network cure and was in charge of a team of doctors. everyone thought that yeltsin would not survive that

operation. 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. and i said 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. i am leaving and i did what i could yeah. i want to ask for your forgiveness. far as i can remember this is the one and only case where a head of state complete power decided by himself to lead. it was a sign of great courage. the yield siniora has already receded into history many

myths about kremlin medicine a gradually fading sales of the miracle kremlin pill have almost fizzled out despite being described as a cure all. 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 launched 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 it but immediately attraction is its name. seems like a pill and afterwards you live for two hundred years. and it's just nonsense i 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 tend to healers or clairvoyance however they do to keep fit and how the kremlin's doctors protect them from ill health is still a state secret. again

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