Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov, better known to history as Vladimir Lenin, suffered his second stroke during his period of declining health.
Just the day prior, the Soviet government instructed teachers in the regime to teach Santa Claus as a myth. In the Christmas atmosphere sense, of course, he is, but why Lenin's regime had to go one extra mile to be fun suckers isn't clear. Apparently murder wasn't enough for them.
Lenin was in a short slide towards death at the time, none of which arrested the progress of destruction in the USSR. Ultimately, his early death would allow the James Dean Effect to apply to him, and he'd escape being recall for being one of the most destructive persons of the 20th Century, which he was. Stalin, a much greater monster who wouldn't have come up but for Lenin, sucked a lot of air out of that room.
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