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darkness switching the lights off for earth hour moscow also joined in on the about . and they say that there was a magic pill that could cure any illness and prolong life but only the soviet leaders had an access to it get inside the kremlin walls in the secret history of the soviet files that is next here on our team. western siberia this secret munitions factory became public knowledge after the fall of the soviet union. 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 at a very risky job for their very lives not just their careers were at stake.

lenin and of the soviet union from nine hundred sixty four through 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 with quite 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. 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 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 in focus even then he couldn't concentrate for more than ten minutes . worth of heart attacks and stroke certainly undermined his health is at the top of a brace now if was dependent on sleeping pills. all of that together made him completely to crap an. integral vehicles was letting. us build up the general secretary was known to have patronized the woman at some point without doctors know and she began supply brezhnev with large amounts of sleeping pills and 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 he everyone of us divorced but i think including a drop of. her influence on him was tremendous. eventually pressure never

agreed to play call of his relationship with us. 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 has a workshop and 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 think nobody else has the sort of characteristics that i have is it kelly and you haven't examined it institutes and you could be six southern actually exit radio electronics and technology. dozens of people undergo treatment here each day according to juneau inhibition if it was one of the first clients. however his relatives flatly deny her claim. once i received

a call from a kremlin employee could you kill any prisoner they asked 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 he'll live in a depression if his rubbish and each in. the kremlin shares were obliged to watch the health of lynn a parishioner one of them was victor but. he recalls how chefs had to refuse pressure with his favorite meal ministries cut 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 so i gave them a guard you because the coat of arms was

a psychosexual symbol of those people are 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 in fact they contained a drink made of rice hit. the roof hit water had a different color to cornea and it took us some time to come up with a way to resolve the problem with we added lemon juice to it disco is the difference some ten bottles for each reception were put down on the table so the most important thing was not to get them mixed up. could hardly rule the. treat during the last year before his death his health failed 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 after that doctors kept a watchful eye on his every step. of course there were special senses under the

mess with one position if it got up during the night he would step on the census and go with us alerting them and usually they viewed the body guards took some time to get to his bedroom because they were in a separate house would make of this but he was going to walk out at seven o'clock in the moanin i immediately called abrasion 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 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 was a limb on red square. nearly and 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 june he became seriously ill and was almost completely disabled until his death according to official accounts he died from flu sclerosis if a serious holocaust footage depicted ltd 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 because he took an abrupt turn for the worse after the attempt on his life by sussan funny complied in nineteen eighteen. this is how the asserted show in the soviet film released in the one nine hundred thirty s. . cañon is still divided on whether lost. was the shooter at the turn of the assassination attempt the other side was sort of pool she could hardly see people

silhouettes they claim that liz health shot through deteriorated as a result of poison puts is also debatable. spent decades studying and then his medical history the belly said there were plans to fill a bullet for the poison called curry which is incredibly potent that later hospitals used it as an anesthetic but the fact is that when the bullet leaves the barrel the poison becomes ineffective a calm point is immediately destroyed by very high temperatures. and nineteen twenty two led 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. is to me official diagnosis of colic disease that causes death was hidden from the public for many years. after thorn talkers 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 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 before death you killed 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 cannot have the courage to judge from the pound wise leader for the day stalin died on march the fifth nineteen fifty three in a coma. joseph stalin did a tour his twentieth century dictator had

a reputation for being overly suspicious millions of people were subjected to political repression under his rule he was dominated by his previous. one of his residence was merely greets you know because you're despite the fact it was high in the mountains it was surrounded by thousands of gods even here stone and dread the prospect of any attempts on his life threatened stalin always sides with his face turned to the windows in this way as you want to tell us the situation outside because he was afraid of attempts on his life the lamps on the walls of the rooms produced idina glow bronze lights if you headaches besides the curtains were trimmed so that she could satisfy himself that nobody outside was going to sesame to him. a motor boat which shuttled across lake greets a supply of his residence with meals he aboard the smell of cooking. if 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 he feared for his life. towards the end of his life stolen 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 diagnosis to put soviet leaders to death. and the case. against the doctors 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 of the supreme soviet of the u.s.s.r. dr leidy a commercial 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 measure sent a letter to the kremlin saying she disagreed with the way doctors patrice's you've gone off 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 not you fifty three. was there and i have no doubt but of stalin had lived long enough those doctors would have been executed in light of reports exposing the group of saboteur doctors even stalin staff came off as a bad joke you know many people would say in whispers. it's been healed to death. he. stunning his close associates degree to choose the darkest case

before the body of what had been hailed as the leader of all nations was even placed in a muslim can read square stalin's personality cult was later denounced by his successor nikita khrushchev. later stalin was very close to the muscle in libya to richard was stripped of the order of lenin and the alleged saboteur daughters worthies from prison they were even allowed to resume their work at the kremlin. russia. which brightened a few new bands soon from finest impressions. whose friends totty dot com.

in tomsk siberia is 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 that is told the chip inside is two by two millimeters with a thousand transistors super microelectronics in those days 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 pharmacies began selling 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 they used it in the kremlin it might help my mother so i bought it dimitri's mother has just gone through a complicated abdominal surgery which is also doctors for permission to use the kremlin pill but will it work. to. 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 meds including the kremlin pill. era and drug general secretary of the communist party of the soviet union single committee nine hundred eighty to ninety four diagnosis progress in renal failure requiring kidney dialysis he died on fire in the ninth one thousand nine hundred. dr

you have any chance of has cured many politburo members and was on friendly terms with and a lot of 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. i did all i could. i supported on drop off for eighteen years why do you think. i think he'd still been alive and in charge. i'm none to nine percent sure that the soviet union would never have collapsed. 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 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 working on a miniature machine the size of a briefcase the world. says they did create something of that car and then he. would regrettably it was too late for them to put its to use. after the collapse of the soviet union the newspaper proved a lame duck to charles open other crimean talks as for the space of soviet leaders deaths. when they are of treason here. 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 and emission shots of if the rapid health worsening of the soviet leaders could be a result of an outrageous incompetence of doctors for the thoroughly planned subversive back which was accurately calculated won't be pared and fulfilled by the so-called qualified doctors can still go here racial except news paper and

tamed to a meeting of academics. i said to colleagues i have to tell you the troll are you sitting here but he's. not going to be subject to prosecution. in my piece after they heard. they decided to write an official letter to craft a newspaper that said you're making a second case against dr this. was so intimidating finance 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 really kept it in him during his tenure not 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 civic leader unlike britain if he didn't care much for ready made scripts of his 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 keep 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 and. thirty young lady a third wrote specialist but that had nothing to do with the permanent state of his health it was simply too much and too loudly so it affected his roco cords so she had to do with as your influence a stray son some stuff inside his throat. 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 cars meanwhile a trillion plus was brewing in moscow and the culminated in crucial being removed from office as soon as he returned the official reason being he is advanced age which i fully agree with because he was then over seventy at the second reason was and increasing ill health. now i did see them sort of before. question and i knew perfectly well that he was in an excellent state of health. and. 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 to. which office general secretary.

because i 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 took with them now frank and straightforward manner he was far more find and civilized. gets closer to be. close enough. often appeared in public together with his wife a practice previously unseen among other service leaders icicle which of a was active in the nation's public life in soviet times many people resent it to have it they blame the country's first lady for swaying decisions. racegoer died of leukemia in september one thousand nine hundred ninety before passing away she said that forming victim to the severe illness and dying would be the only way to get

people to understand her this time the kremlin medicine was hopeless. 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. maurizio the president of russia nineteen ninety 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. many store yeltsin as a hero in august ninety ninety one he stood at the head of a movement of resistance to clauses and 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 the olson was full with unpredictable consequences. and i believe we're. going to do when they began pouring cognac into these dos is that yeltsin grimaced and turned around and started with those with wesley chorus chair cute there was a sewing table filled with tumblers and girls told us. yeltsin used to drink tea i'll have a glass like this on but it then boris yeltsin reached out for six tumblers and placed them on the table and all of the way to trial from off. of 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 administrator newbie would ever dare to pull the lever resigned . after he moved to moscow to take the post to president quite a few people among his associates were new to it for we had practices one of them you're a man and was a professional psychic. i said it was possible to improve ratings summit so that they would be beyond the reach of opponents but give me forty five minutes of any maintain the state handles and the certain candidate would be elected this is called the management of the collective mind the management of the audience. least of the nine hundred ninety six elections president yeltsin was going out of his way to demonstrate that he was physically fit for another term of office 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

surgery next year and was in charge of the team of doctors. everyone thought that yeltsin would not survive that operation we knew 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. i am leaving and i did code yet. i want to ask for your forgiveness. for as i can remember this is the one and only case where

a head of state complete power decided by himself personally. it was a sign of great courage. the hilton 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. 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 it but of mediately attraction is its name. with. the series take a pill and afterwards you live for two hundred years blair that's just nonsense

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 turn to healers or clairvoyance however they do to keep fit and healthy crimmins doctors protect them from ill health is still a state secret. home . from.

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