[Jewbacca]

He does look like he died with a smile on his face.

[SeeSharp]

Couldn’t they just test his mummified corpse for mercury? Mercury was the standard treatment for syphilis back then.

[Verginius Rufus]

I think they could add Cortez to the list...at least according to my long-ago Spanish professor who called him el sifilitico.

[Vendome]

It’s all the same to me. He is dead.

[Libertarianize the GOP]

The eminent Russian scientist Ivan Pavlov...The Nobel winner - famous for his conditioning work with dogs - once stated that the 'revolution was made by a madman with syphilis of the brain,'..."

And that is supposed to be evidence?

[Billthedrill]

No reason it had to one or the other. He was pretty much a shattered man before the end.

Funniest comment - Let's hope the remaining two, Paul and Ringo don't go the same way.- Lauren Llama, Liverpool

And, of course, a favorite of mine,

Where Lenin lies the red flag flies, and the rat-grey workers wait
To tread the gloom of Lenin's Tomb, where the Comrade lies in state.
With lagging pace they scan his face, so weary yet so firm;
For years a score they've laboured sore to save him from the worm.
The Kremlin walls are grimly grey, but Lenin's Tomb is red,
And pilgrims from the Sour Lands say: "He sleeps and is not dead."
Before their eyes in peace he lies, a symbol and a sign,
And as they pass that dome of glass they see - a God Divine.
So Doctors plug him full of dope, for if he drops to dust,
So will collapse their faith and hope, the whole combine will bust.
But say, Tovarich; hark to me . . . a secret I'll disclose,
For I did see what none did see; I know what no one knows...

Ballad of Lenin's Tomb, Robert Service

[matginzac]

No kidding/ Seems like just desserts....

[Revenge of Sith]

There are also allegations that Stalin poisoned Lenin.

[Deb]

They’ve been saying this about Castro for 40 years.