1922 In May, Lenin suffered a stroke and was unable to continue working because of fear of disability and aphasia. He asked for poison for a rainy day. Lenin asked Stalin, Krupskaya, ulyan Nova, secretary Faugier Eva and others for poison more than once, and it was Stalin who was directly asked to perform this task. Members of the Politburo are opposed to this, and their demands have not been implemented.
Lenin did ask Stalin for poison during his illness.
In the 1960s, I read about Stalin in a comment by Trotsky. 1923 At the end of February, Stalin told him that Lenin, who was seriously ill, asked him for poison for a rainy day.
Trotsky put it this way: During Lenin's second illness, at the end of February 1923, when members of the Politburo Zinoviev and Kamenev met with him, after the secretary left, Stalin told us that Lenin suddenly called him and asked him for poison. Lenin is about to lose his ability to speak, thinking that his illness is hopeless, foreseeing that another stroke is about to happen, distrusting doctors, and finding them contradictory without any difficulty. He was wide awake, but the pain was unbearable.
Trotsky objected: naturally, we can't even consider implementing this requirement. Geye (the doctor who treated Lenin) didn't lose hope. Lenin can still be restored. ?
? I told him all this. Stalin replied that there was no unpleasant smell. ? But he doesn't want to hear the reason. The old man is suffering. He said that he would keep the poison at hand and only use it when he was sure that his situation was hopeless. ?
At that time, I was skeptical about Trotsky's account of the plot. Because Lenin listened to Krupskaya read Jack before his death? Love life in London short stories.
Trotsky also expressed doubts at that time. On the other hand, Lenin can't entrust such a task to someone he doesn't trust anymore. He wrote: How and why did Lenin, who was extremely suspicious of Stalin at that time, make this request to him? Because on the surface, it means a high degree of personal trust. Just a month before Lenin made this request to Stalin, he wrote his ruthless postscript in his will. A few days after he made this request, he cut off all personal relations with Stalin. Stalin will definitely ask himself this question: Why did Lenin seek me instead of others? The answer is simple: Lenin thought Stalin was the only one who could meet his bleak needs. In the meantime, maybe he wants to try Stalin. This? A big company specializing in spicy food? How eager are you to take advantage of this opportunity?
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But then I saw some information, and I had to believe that Trotsky's narrative was not groundless, and there was indeed this episode in history.