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On Monday, 21 January 1924, at 18:50 EET, Vladimir Lenin, leader of the October Revolution and the first leader and founder of the Soviet Union, died in Gorki aged 53 after falling into a coma. [1] The official cause of death was recorded as an incurable disease of the blood vessels. [ 2 ]
In 2017, historian Stephen Kotkin wrote in The Wall Street Journal that 65 million people died prematurely under communist regimes according to demographers, and those deaths were a result of "mass deportations, forced labor camps and police-state terror" but mostly "from starvation as a result of its cruel projects of social engineering." [79 ...
In July 1916, Lenin's mother died, but he was unable to attend her funeral. [119] Her death deeply affected him, and he became depressed, fearing that he too would die before seeing the proletarian revolution. [120]
The reported number of kulaks and their relatives who had died in labour colonies from 1932 to 1940 was 389,521. [11] [53] Popular history author Simon Sebag Montefiore estimated that 15 million kulaks and their families were deported by 1937; during the deportation, many people died, but the full number is not known. [54]
[169] 13 million people died in the civil war. [170] ... Lenin died at his Gorki home on 21 January 1924, having fallen into a coma earlier in the day. [327]
Vladimir Lenin was voted the chairman of the Council of People's Commissars of the Soviet Union (Sovnarkom) on 30 December 1922 by the Congress of Soviets. [11] At the age of 53, his health declined from the effects of two bullet wounds, later aggravated by three strokes which culminated with his death in 1924. [12]
The USSR repeatedly denied that Vladimir Lenin was responsible. Explosion in Leontievsky Lane: 1919, September 25 Place of mass gathering of people in the premises of the Moscow Committee of the Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks), Leontievsky Lane, Tverskoy District, Moscow 12 White Terror: 1918–1922 Nationwide 20,000 [1] to 300,000 [2]
According to others, the number of people shot by the Cheka in 1918–1922 is about 37,300 people, shot in 1918–1921 by the verdicts of the tribunals – 14,200, although executions and atrocities were not limited to the Cheka, having been organized by the Red Army as well. [39] [73]