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come into full force of the end of june. reliving the past visits the only remaining soviet forced labor camp the gulag and here is carrying accounts from its former. and i we continue on ruffling the pages of history in the soviet files and. western siberia this secretly missions factory became public knowledge after the fall of the soviet union here 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 shrouded in secrecy. private doctors looking after them had a very risky job their very lives not just their careers were at stake.

linnet brush head of the soviet union from nine hundred sixty four through nine hundred eighty two in one nine hundred seventy six read them suffered clinical death and developed as the near an afterthought rosen's died on november tenth one thousand nine hundred two from heartbreak. jury precious rain 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 around as some form of surveillance my mom died back in nineteen forty six when i was born with 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. on top of a brazen f. was dependent on sleeping pills all of together made him completely to crap it. was lynn oppression of us bill that he general secretary was known to have patronized the woman at some point without doctors know and she began supplying present it with launch 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 us doris but i think including a drop of. her influence on him was tremendous. eventually pressure never agreed to pray call for 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 criminals medics in the small sigh of relief. 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 patient. thank you nobody else has the sort of characteristics that i have been examined to institutes and you know that physics insider and radio and tronics antic knowledge. dozens of people undergo treatment here each day according to juneau inhibition if i was one of the first clients. however his relatives flatly deny her claim. once i received a call from a kremlin employee could you carol any british me of the asked if i said i wasn't

sure about am i trying. 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 healin expression of his rubbish and each in. the kremlin shares were obliged to watch the health of lin admission to one of them was victor belie of the records how chefs have to refuse question of what his favorite meal ministries call that to follow 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 serve as the basis of the side dish of the may lower garden you because because of alms was a sacrifice symbols and it were the chefs had to resort to all sorts of tricks to

keep alcohol away from brush 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 ruth hit. the roof it was a had a different color to cognac 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 of each reception were put down on the table the most important thing was not to get them mixed up. could hardly rule the. treat during the last year before his death is hell filled completely after a visit to tashkent authorities but how did together a mess of workers across factory to welcome him they looked on from scaffolding which suddenly collapsed fracturing his collarbone of the best doctors kept a watchful eye on his every step. there were special senses under the mess that was there when gratian if it got out during the night he would step on the sides of

this incredible does alerting the man and usually usual that you the body guards took some time to get to his bedroom because they were in a separate house would we could guess but he would get personal when i woke up like seven o'clock in the moanin 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 lights he's ok everything's normal but he called me back three hours later to say that pressure and diet. 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. ninety million only on founder of the sole issue it was the head of state from nineteen seventeen until nineteen twenty four in may nineteenth twenty two and he

became seriously ill and was almost completely disabled until his death according to official accounts he died from now through sclerosis if serious hawkeye footage depicted limon as a cheerful man full of energy capable of working in english from the cloak according to official soviet records lennon was in perfect health but he took an abrupt turn for the worse to turn to his life by sussan funny complaint in one hundred eighteen. this is how the episode is shown in the soviet film released in the one nine hundred thirty s. . opinion is still divided on whether all of. those issues are at the turn of the assassination attempt the other side was sort of poor she could hardly see people salutes the claim that lennon's health shockley deteriorated as a result of poison puts is also debatable.

spent decades studying lennon's medical history. the daily said there were plans to fill a bullet with a poison called curry which is incredibly potent the later hospitals used it as an anesthetic and that opposed to the fact is that when the bullet leaves the barrel mccoy's and becomes ineffective will become point is immediately destroyed by very high temperatures. in one thousand and twenty two lead and moved into his residence nimmo sky during the last months of his life he was almost completely insane this picture was taken by his sister. it's in the official gardeners of colic disease that causes death was hidden from the public for many years. after foreign doctors came through examine lennon they said in letters dated back to nine hundred twenty two that he had syphilis and the diagnosis was confirmed in one nine hundred

twenty four with lennon's death in lennon's inner circle was aware of it but no one else was supposed to know and the post-mortem report was grossly falsified. joseph stalin juba shriek bloody murder lenin successor head of state from nineteen twenty four to one hundred fifty three before death he accuses doctors of deliberately crack 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 a day stellan died on march the fifteenth nineteen thirty three in a coma. jews are still in the dettori is twentieth century dictator has 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 it 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 still in always sent with his face turned to the windows in this way simoni tell us the situation outside because he was afraid of attempts on his life on the walls of the rooms produced a demon glow branch lights a few headaches besides the curtains were trimmed so that she could satisfy himself that nobody outside was going to assassinate him. a motorboats which shuttled across may greets a supply of his residents with meals he aboard 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 where he was at any particular moment you fear for his life. towards

the end of his life still insisted his doctors are spying. a few dozen medics were arrested under his personal orders they would go to the security ministry where they were forced to say that they had deliberately meted out incorrect oddnesses to put soviet leaders to death. and the case. against the doctors treated 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. ukraine on the supreme soviet of the us a soft dr leidy a commercial has been awarded the order of lenin for her assistance to the government in unmasking killer doctors. in one hundred forty eight heart specialist lydia commercial sense unless it's of

a criminal same she disagree with the way doctors to treat it should donald a high ranking service official of the criminal ignore the letter however four years later it was found in archives but that time stalin was already obsessed he thought physicians were trying to hold him the machine now provided the basis of a criminal case stolen couldn't see the case through however i see god amounts the faith nine hundred fifty three your insinuation was that i have no doubt but of stalin have lived long enough those doctors would have been executed. in light of reports exposing the group of saboteur doctors with even stalin's death came off as a bad joke little many people would say in whispers. has been healed to death she. started his close associates degree to use the doctor's case before the border you would have been hailed as the leader of all nations was even placed in the muslim in red square stonings personality cult was later denounced by his successor the

key to crucial. later stalin was very close to the muslim lydia tomasz or was stripped of the order of living and the alleged saboteur 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 list of elements from around russia we've got the future covered.

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 brain 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 in 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 which is all stopped as 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 only 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 nineteen eighty to ninety four diagnosis progress a reason for your requiring kidney dialysis he died on further in the ninth one thousand nine hundred four. doctor you get each as old as many put it pure and members and was on friendly terms with antelope of for a long time and he knew better than anyone else that andropov was unfit to rule the country however his opinion and that of other kremlin doctors was not heeded. for the deal for i did all i could. by supporting them dropped off for eighteen years

why didn't. i think he'd still been alive and in charge. i'm none too nine percent sure of the soviet union would never have collapsed when you subservient. at the time he was appointed through pope look different from the other members of the politburo he was younger more energetic and had a high i.q. is what shuttle was filled with meetings with 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 it's always a briefcase but. they did create something about current events in 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 spate of soviet leaders deaths. when they are a prison gate. it can only be surprising how many fatal contingencies the lassoed leaders have to collide with it would be interesting to know from the academicians chance of if the rapid health worsening of the soviet leaders could be a result of an outrageous incompetence of doctors or an fir only plans aversive back which was accurately calculated well prepared and fulfilled by the so-called qualified doctors coupled with you issue i took the news paper and came to a meeting of academics. i said you did call it school i have to tell you you know that twelve of you sitting here you are going to be subject to prosecution. and what he's after they heard that's where 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 the they decided to publish it. end of the u.s.s.r. from nineteen 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 i didn't care much for ready made scripts of the speeches and instead often improvised a doctor 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 of politicians the only other person. in the medical profession 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 so effected his vocal chords so what he had to do with the said. brace on some stuff inside his throat. during his last year at the helm of the soviet union seventy year old crucial spent more than one hundred fifty days traveling 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 crucial being removed from office as soon as he returned the official reason to be his

advanced age which i fully agree with because he was then over seventy at the second reason walls and increase in ill health. now i did see them for. eventing question and i knew perfectly well that he was in an excellent state of health. the last general secretary of the communist party nineteen eighty five nineteen ninety one came to power the age of fifty four the only surviving leader from the soviet era. the central committee of the communist party to. mikhail gorbachev as general secretary. was elected in march night in eighty five a wind of change was in the air to destroy it was announced in the country like nikita khrushchev. but the people he talked with in the franken straightforward

manner he was 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 other service leaders. was active in the nation's public life in serbia times many people resented the habit they blame the country's first lady for swaying 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 hopeless. but i am missing a friend and i have lost during his hard struggle my beloved wife he bets what is lacking in my life i always remember that. worse 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 one 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 close as 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. and i blew it. we didn't when they began pouring cognac into these glasses that

yeltsin grimaced and turned around and stood with us from berkeley kori schake yet there was a sewing table filled with tumblers and girls told us. yeltsin used to drink tea as of a glass like this on then boris yeltsin reached out for six tumblers and placed them on the table all the way to try them off you'll remember. what you. we're going to drink from these he declared. when yeltsin 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 get 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 we knew he'd fall weird practices one of them you're a man and was a professional psychic. i 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 state handles and a certain candidate would be elected this is called the management of the collective mind the management of the audience. in either of the nine hundred ninety six elections president yeltsin was going out of his way to demonstrate that he was physically fit for no the time of office he was indeed elected for a second stint but he paid a price for his exertions. the leader 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 a team of doctors. everyone thought that yeltsin would not survive that operation near we knew that 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 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. i am leaving. i did what i could yeah. i want to ask for your forgiveness. 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 kremlin pill of 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 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 mediately attraction is its name. what. seems like a pill and afterwards you live for two hundred years. and that's just nonsense i don't believe that 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 ever they do to keep fit and

healthy crimmins doctors protect them from ill health is still a state secret.