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and got more news stories in half an hour from now on the meantime a chance to get inside the kremlin walls for the secret history of the soviet files in our special report next on the. western siberia this secret munitions 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 was always shrouded in secrecy. private doctors looking after them had a very risky job but their very lives not just their careers were at stake. lanie aggression and of the soviet union from nine hundred sixty four through nine

hundred eighty two in one thousand seventy six gresham suffered clinical death. as the near an afterthought rosen's died on november tenth one thousand nine hundred two from heart failure. during brush lives reign the term trend in medicine the quantity 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 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 job they even more 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. heart

attacks and stroke certainly undermined his health. on top of the prison if was dependent on sleeping pills. all of together made him completely to crap it. was limit precious personal mess the elderly general secretary was known to have patronized the woman at some point without doctors know and she began supplying britain it 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 this nina he everyone of us divorced but i think including and that it was 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 kremlin's 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 libertarian 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 of nuclear physics etc netflix and radio electronics and technology. dozens of people undergo treatment here each day according to gina integration of was one of the first clients. however his relatives flatly deny her claim. alonso received a call from a kremlin employee would you kill any british merely asked if i said i wasn't sure but i might try that no one in the family is aware of that juneau would simply have

been barred from his team saying that some women off the street was allowed to healin expression of his were rubbish reaching. the kremlin champers were obliged to watch the health of liberation every one of them was victim of a life he recalls how chefs have to refuse question of what his favorite meal ministries cutlets the full of his doctor's recommendation. or remember the way poultry was served in soviet times there would be enough for you all months now look different in those days the coat of arms could never be hidden in your work or could be served as the basis of the citation and the may throw a guard you because the cause of alms was a psych recital symbols and it were the ships had to resort to all sorts of tricks to keep alcohol away from brush and 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 hit. the roof hit water had a different color to cognac they took some time to come up with a way to resolve the problem we added lemon juice to its discoveries the difference with some ten bottles but each reception we put down on the table the most important thing was not to get the mixed up. brush never could hardly rule it. treat during the last year before his death is hell filled completely after a visit to tashkent the first is that 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 there was no one britishness got up during the night he would step on the sides as god was alerting them and usually they did the bodyguards took some time

to get to his bedroom because they were in a separate house would make a guess but it was never going to work out at seven o'clock in the morning i immediately called aggression athlete then when i said i have a sense there is something wrong with that impression if you'll let us stop talking nonsense he replied he's ok everything's normal but he called me back three hours later to say that brashness died. the general secretary of the communist party was peri's in front of the walls of the kremlin next to the lenin mausoleum on red square. ninety million 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 and he became seriously ill and was almost completely disabled until his death according

to official accounts he died from cancer as close as if surgery hawkeye footage depicted living as a cheerful man full of energy capable of working in this round the clock according to official soviet records lennon was in perfect health but he took an abrupt turn for the worse often he turned to his life by sussan funny clothes in nineteen eighteen. this is how the episode is shown in the soviet film released in the one nine hundred thirty s. . cañon sisters are ferreted on what kind of her plan was to shoot at the turn of the assassination attempt on a side was circle she could hardly see people silhouettes the claim that lennon's health shockley deteriorated as a result of poison puts is also debatable. spent

decades studying lennon's medical history. to fill a bullet with a poison called curry which is incredibly potent that later hospitals use that as an anesthetic and that because of the fact is that when the bullet leaves the barrel the poison becomes ineffective will become point is immediately destroyed by very high temperature that. in one thousand twenty two led and moved into his residence and in moscow 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 chronic 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 one nine hundred twenty two that he had syphilis and the diagnosis was confirmed in one nine hundred twenty four with lennon's death lenin'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 jew gosh meet my new millennium successor head of state from nineteen twenty four till nine hundred thirty three before death he accuses doctors of deliberately elfric 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 stallin died in march the fairplay nineteen thirty three in a coma. jews are stored in a tourist 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 stalin dreaded the prospect of any attempts on his life so that stalin always sat with his face turned to the windows in this way shimon he told the situation outside because he was afraid of attempts on his life on the walls of the rooms produced a dim glow branch lights gave him headaches besides the curtains were trained so that she could satisfy himself that there would be outside was going to recess and him. a motorboats which shuttled across lake greets a supply of his residence with meals pay a board the smell of cooking. if this this is one of three bedrooms of john's 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 is you way he was at any particular moment she fears for his life. towards the end of his life still in

suspected his daughter's a spine 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 darknesses to put soviet leaders to death. of the case. against the doctors were not 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 for. ukraine on the supreme soviet of the us a song dr leidy a few mushroom 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 sent a letter to the kremlin same she disagreed with the way doctors to treat issue

donald a high ranking service official of the criminal ignore 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 as a now provided the basis of a criminal case stone and couldn't see the case through however as he died on march the fifth nine hundred fifty three your insinuation was there and i have no doubt but 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 can opus a bad joke you know many people would say in whispers. has been healed to death she . started his close associates degree to cruise 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 stalin's personality cult was later denounced by

his successor the key to crucial for latest on him was very close to the muslim lydia temperature was stripped of the order of lenin and the alleged saboteur doctors were released from prison they were even allowed to resume their work at the kremlin. wealthy british style. markets why not. find out what's really happening to the global economy in cars a report on r.t.

. 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 is a small electronic device that is stalled the chip inside is two by two millimeters or the thousand transistors super microelectronics in those days the kremlin pill is slightly larger than the team 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 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 all stopped as for permission to use the

kremlin pill but will it work. to. call it the euro 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. you're in good general secretary of the communist party of the soviet union central committee nine hundred eighty to ninety four diagnosis progress a rainy day you're requiring kidney dialysis he died on fire in the ninth one thousand nine hundred will. dockery again each as all has cured many politburo members and was on friendly terms with drop off 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 kremlin doctors was not heeded. but

gil i did all i could. i supported him drop off for eighteen years why do you think of legal 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 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. is what shuttle was filled with meetings but those closest to him knew that every day doctors used to connect to a kidney dialysis machine. but it was a cumbersome piece of equipment you talk to colleagues were working on a miniature machine the size of a briefcase. they did create something of that car and he being the regrettably it was too late for them to put it to use. after the

collapse of the soviet union the newspaper plans to blame dr charles ofen other kremlin doctors for the spate of soviet leaders deaths. when they are of treason again. 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 to the mission chance of if the rapid health worsening of the soviet leaders would be a result of an outrageous incompetence of doctors or a thoroughly planned subversive back which was accurately calculated well prepared and fulfilled by the so called qualified doctors careful with you michel i took the news paper and came to a meeting of academics. where i said their colleagues will i have to tell you you know beds twelve of you sitting here couple of his you are going to be subject

to prosecution. but also they heard. they decided to write an official letter to craft a newspaper it said you are making a second case against dr this. was so intimidating because of it decided to publish it. end of the u.s.s.r. from nineteen fifty three one thousand nine hundred sixty people know 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 service lida unlike prison if i didn't care much for ready made scripts to be 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 get 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 and he was thirty young lady 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 if affected his vocal chords so what he had to do was to say. a stray song some stuff in cycles growth. 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 cozy me maalik trillion plus was brewing in most goods they culminated in crucial being removed from office as soon as he returned the official reason being 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 had seen him before the. question and i knew perfectly well that he was in excellent state of health. the last general secretary becoming a spartan nineteen 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 gorbachev was elected in march night in eighty five a wind of change was in the air to strike i was a mouse in the country like makita crucial for. the people he took with them the

frank and straightforward manner he was more find uncivilized. gets closer to the people close enough. often appeared in public together with his wife a practice previously unseen among other service leaders the icicle bitch of a 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. grace ago 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 hopeless. but i am missing a friend and i have lost during his hard struggle my beloved wife he would that's what is lacking in my life i always remember that. boris yeltsin 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 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 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.

so that when they were. when they began pouring cognac into these glasses the yeltsin grimaced and turned around it was mercilessly chorus shape yet it was a soil table filled with tumblers and drawls holders. yeltsin used to drink out of a glass like this. then boris yeltsin reached out for six tumblers and placed them on the table all of the way to try them off. 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 he would ever dare to pull the lever isn't race. after he moved to moscow to take the post of president quite a few people among his associates were noted for weird practices one of them yuri mountain 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 the 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 for military my whole face 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 an epicurean 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 what i could yeah. i want to ask for your forgiveness. in the. far as i can remember this is the one and only case where a head of state where the complete power decided by himself as a leader it was a sign of great courage. and the yeltsin era has already receded into history many myths about kremlin medicine are gradually fading sales of the miracle criminon

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 a c. take a pill and afterwards you live for two hundred years. 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 what they do to keep

fit and how the kremlin's doctors protect them from ill health is still a state secret. wolf. sounds technology innovation all the elements from around russia we've got the future coverage. from. the. home.

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