era and drug general secretary of the communist party of the soviet union single committee nine hundredeighty 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 minia