| − | Lenin, a workaholic who avoided vacations and downtime, died in 1924 following a series of progressively more serious strokes. However, recent studies indicate that his "strokes" were actually the terminal effects of syphillis that he got from interacting with a prostitute during his exile. [[Joseph Stalin]] was his even more brutal successor. | + | Lenin, a workaholic who avoided vacations and downtime, died in 1924 following a series of progressively more serious strokes. However, recent studies indicate that his "strokes" were actually the terminal effects of syphillis that he got from interacting with a prostitute during his exile.<ref>https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1222209/Lenin-died-syphilis-NOT-stroke-claims-historian.html</ref> [[Joseph Stalin]] was his even more brutal successor. |