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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]
Died: Roy Redgrave, 49, English stage actor and Australian silent film actor, and the first member of the Redgrave acting dynasty as father of Michael Redgrave, grandfather of Vanessa Redgrave, Lynn Redgrave and Corin Redgrave, and great-grandfather of Liam Neeson died in Australia after deserting his family.
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]
Not long after the 1924 death of the founder of the Soviet Union, a popular poet soothed and thrilled the grieving country with these words: “Lenin lived, Lenin lives, Lenin will live.” A ...
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Lenin in a wheelchair shortly after his third stroke in March 1923. To Lenin's embarrassment and horror, in April 1920 the Bolsheviks held a large party to celebrate his 50th birthday, which was also marked by widespread celebrations across Russia and the publication of poems and biographies dedicated to him. [364]
Himmler's corpse after his suicide by cyanide poisoning, May 1945 "I am Heinrich Himmler." [234] — Heinrich Himmler, German Nazi officer (23 May 1945), last words said during his suicide shortly after bitting into a hidden potassium cyanide pill before collapsing dead onto the floor of the headquarters of the Second British Army in Lüneburg.
A century after the Russian Revolution, the influence of its leader Vladimir Lenin has waned but his image remains across the former Soviet Union. Vladimir Lenin monuments remain 100 years after ...