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remaining soviet forced labor camp the gulag and here is the horrific house of its former inmates. and coming up we continue our trip through russia soviet past as we are out of all the pages of history in the soviet files this time focusing on the labor unions leaders stay with us. western siberia this secret munitions factory became public knowledge after the fall of the soviet union is special capsules known as the kremlin pill will make a hand exclusively for the us. the health of the leaders of the soviet union was shrouded in secrecy. private doctors looking after them had a very risky job with their very lives not just a career is were at stake. leoni

bresh head of the soviet union from one nine hundred sixty fourth one thousand nine hundred two in one thousand seventy six régime suffered clinical death. estonia and atherosclerosis died on november tenth one thousand nine hundred eighty two from heart failure. during brushing his 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 constant medical attention that's why doctors went through a special procedure to be selected for work at the facility. 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 or 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 on top of a brazen air force dependent on sleeping pills all of that together made him completely to crap and. was limitation of us elderly general secretary was known to have patronized the woman at some point without doctors know when she began supply brezhnev would 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. get rid of the nurse nina he everyone of us divorced but i think including a drop of. 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 post time hunting expedition was arranged for him and the criminals medics into small sigh of relief . if kenya really known as jr has a workshop that occupies an entire story in an old building in central moscow she has a look for a trail of ground floor juna is a healer specializing in unconventional practices that require no physical contact with the patient. that nobody else has the sort of characteristics that's i have been examined to institutes and you could be six in southern essex radio electronics and technology. dozens of people undergo treatment here each day according to gina in a britain if 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 prisoner they asked i said i wasn't sure but

i try. no one in the family is aware of that juneau would simply have been barred from his duty saying that some woman off the street was allowed to heal in a depression of his rubbish and he cheated. the criminally champers were obliged to watch the health of limitation one of them was victor but not if he were to lose how chefs have to refuse question of what his favorite meal ministries call that the full of his doctor's recommendation. but. i remember the way the poultry was served in soviet targets there will be enough for you womans now look different in those days the coat of arms could never be hidden it would serve as the basis of the side dish and the may go a guard you because the coat of alms was a psycho symbol or was it where the chefs had to resort to all sorts of tricks to

keep alcohol away from brezhnev 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 rose hit. the roof hit water had a different color to cornea and they took 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 for each reception were put down on the tables all the most important thing was not to get them mixed up. bush never could hardly rule the . treat during the last year before his death is hell filled completely after a visit to tashkent authorities and how to together a mess of workers across factory to welcome him they looked on from scaffolding which suddenly collapsed fracturing his collarbone off the back doctors kept a watchful eye on his every step. there were special senses under the maps with little one parishioner got up during the night where he would step on the sets of

us alerting the men and usually viewers will know that you have the body guards took some time to get his bedroom because they were in a separate house would be the best but it was your personal going to walk out at seven o'clock in the morning and i immediately called a british athlete then when i said i have a sense there is something wrong with that impression if you stop talking nonsense hundred flights he's ok everything's normal but she called me back three hours later to say that precious died. the general secretary of the communist party was buried in front of the walls of the kremlin next to the lenin muslim 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 two he became

seriously ill and was almost completely disabled until his death according to official accounts he died from cancer as close as if serious hawkeye 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 of the attempt on his life by such a funny complaint in nineteen eighteen. this is how the episodes show in a circuit film released in the one nine hundred thirty s. . cañon is still divided on whether a plan was to shoot at the turn of the assassination attempt the other side was so cool she could hardly see people so it's a claim that there is health shocker 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 courage which is incredibly potent the later hospitals used it as an anesthetic and for the fact is that when the bullet leaves the barrel the poison becomes ineffective will become point is immediately destroyed by very high temperatures. in one thousand and twenty two lead and moved into his residence limo sky. during the last months of his life he went almost completely insane this picture was taken by his sister. it's in the official diagnosis of colic disease that causes death were hidden from the public for many years. after foreign doctors came through examine lennon they said in letters dated back to one nine hundred twenty two that he had syphilis the diagnosis was confirmed in one thousand

twenty four with lennon's death sentence inner circle was aware of this no one else was supposed to know and the post-mortem report was grossly falsified. joseph stalin to push me to bloody murder lenin successor head of state from nineteen twenty four to one hundred fifty three before death he accuses 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 could not have the courage to charge on the paralyzed leader for almost a day stellan died on march the fifth nineteen thirty three in a coma. jurors are stored in the dettori is twentieth century dictator has a reputation for being overly suspicious means a people was subjected to political repression under his rule it was dominated by

his previous. one of his residence was nearly enough because it just by 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 threatened stalin 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 it in the lower ranks lights a few headaches besides the curtains were trained so that she could see just by himself that there was an outside who was going to assess and him. a motor boat which shows in the course of a greaser supplied his residence with meals he aboard the smell of cooking. this is this is one of three bedrooms of joseph stalin all three look quite alike this is because during the night stalin might go to another room to make sure that nobody knew where he was at any particular moment because you fear to his life. towards

the end of his life still in suspects of his guilt as a spy. 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 darknesses for soviet leaders to death. and the case. against the top teams treated a vehement propaganda campaign. in the press and on the radio and television. things went so far as many patients turned surgery for conditions that required treatment for. ukraine of the supreme soviet of the us a saw 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 commercial center a letter to the kremlin saying she disagreed with the way doctors could treat issue donald a high ranking service official but 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 as he died on march the fifth nine hundred fifty three. it was but 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 and whispers stay. has been healed to death she. started his close associates degree to cruise the doctor's case before the body of what had been hailed as the leader of all nations was even placed in the news and in

a red square stonings personality cult was later denounced by his successor nikita krushchev. latest on him was very close to the muslim lydia tomasz or was stripped of the order of living and the alleged separate her daughters were released from prison they were even allowed to resume their work at the kremlin. wall for the future science technology innovation all the latest developments from around russia we've got the future covered. a look or

a 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 has a small electronic device but it's all the chip inside is two by two millimeters with a thousand transistors super microelectronics in those days and the kremlin pill is slightly larger than the theme once it is in the body it starts generating impulses emulating the rhythms of a young healthy body. after the breakup of the soviet union pharmacist began selling kremlin pills the device was hailed as the cure 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. doctors for permission to use the kremlin pill but will it work. to me but it will develop your members 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. here in broad general secretary of the communist party of the soviet union single family nine hundred eighty to ninety four diagnosis progress a reason for your requiring kidney dialysis he died on fire in the ninth one thousand nine hundred. dr you have any chance of has cured many polyp your own members and was on friendly terms with and a lot of for a long time he knew better than anyone else that andropov was unfit to rule the country however his opinion and that of other crime and doctors was not heeded. for the deal i did all i could. i supported him drop off for eighteen years.

i think he'd still been alive and in charge. i'm none to nine percent sure but the soviet union would never have collapsed when he was serious. at the time he was appointed and through both 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 but 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 size of a briefcase but. they did create something of that car and he. 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 over and other kremlin doctors for the space of soviet leaders deaths. when the horror of treason came. it can only be surprising how many fatal contingencies the last soviet leaders had to collide with it would be interesting to know from their going to mission chance of if the rapid health worsening of the soviet leaders would be a result of an outrageous incompetence of doctors or early plans aversive back which was accurately calculated well prepared and fulfilled by the so-called qualified doctors careful here patient i took the news paper and came to a meeting of academics. and i said to colleagues school i have to tell you the you know that troll of you sitting here he's probably going to be subject to prosecution. but he's also the hook. they decided to write it's going to

officially letter to craft a newspaper it said you are making a second case against dr this. deal was so intimidate her confidence because of it decided to publish it. end of the u.s.s.r. from nineteen fifty three one thousand nine hundred sixty four no chronic diseases really connected in him during his internet as 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 other soviet leader unlike prison if i didn't care much for ready made scripts to be speeches and instead often improvised at all to did accompany him during his international visits or duties to be on the safe side the job was to give crucial medical assistance of

a special kind the fact is that he was with the calmest of politicians the only other person. there in the medical profession was thirty young lady at the rope specialist but that at nothing to do with the permanent state of his health it was simply too much and too loudly so it affected his vocal cords so what she had to do with the. spray some some stuff inside his throat. juror in his last year at the helm of the soviet union seventy year old crucial spent more than one hundred thirty days traveling inside and outside the country in october one thousand sixty four he decided to go on vacation in the cozy beam of the kremlin 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 with because he was then over seventy and in the second reason walls and increase in ill health. now i did see them before the. question and i knew perfectly well that he was an excellent state of health. the last general secretary of the communist party nineteen eighty five nineteen 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 to. which off as general secretary. was elected in much nine hundred eighty five a wind of change was in the historic it was announced in the country like nikita khrushchev. with the people he took with him now frank and straightforward manner

he was far more find and civilized. gets closer to the people close enough. which often appeared in public together with his wife a practice previously unseen among other soviet leaders. was active in the nation's public life in soviet times many people resented the habit they blame the country's first lady for swaying decisions. race ago which died of leukemia in september one thousand nine hundred nine before passing away she said that forming victim to this 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. boris yeltsin president of

russia one thousand nine hundred one nineteen 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 nine hundred ninety s. and then you 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 full with unpredictable consequences. so that really were. when they began pouring into these losses that yeltsin

grimaced and turned around and it was those of us in the chorus shaping up there was a sewing table filled with tumblers and girls told us. yeltsin used to drink tea i'll have a glass light of this. then boris yeltsin reached out for six tumblers and placed them on the table and all of the waiters tocome off to the brilliance of what you. are going to drink from these he declared. when the old sim was a young man he was an enthusiastic and skillful sportsman this helped his career in the communist party in the year olds here he was reputed to be a no nonsense tough administration knew that he would never dare 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 mellon was a professional psychic. said it was possible to improve ratings summit size that

they would be beyond the reach of opponents give me forty five minutes of any maintain the states and the certain candidate would be elected as this is called the management of the collective mind the management of the audience. please 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. needed heart bypass surgery it was decided that the complex operation would be performed in russia it lasted several hours cardiac surgeon or an epicurean was in charge of the team of doctors. everyone thought that yeltsin would not survive that operation that because of all the stress the contraction function of his heart was a ruin. 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. 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 leave. it was a sign of great courage. the yeltsin era has already receded into history and many myths about kremlin medicine are 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 a tool 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 it but immediately attraction is its name. with a. c. take a pill and afterwards you live for two hundred years. well 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.