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ANNOUNCED IN THEATRE DEATH DUE TO WOUND. (Sydney “Sun” Cable.) LONDON, January 23. The death of Lenin by paralysis of the brain was dramatically announced at the anniversary celebrations of the first revolutionary outbreak in Petrograd in 1905 at the Bolshevik Theatre in Moscow. Suddenly strains of the “Funeral March” were heard, and the Soviet leaders with tear® streaming down their faces appeared. Kalemin. in a broken voice, said:—■ “Comrades, our Comrade Lenin departed yesterday. All that is left to us is to perpetuate his great teachings.” The theatre was filled with groans and women fainted. The “Funeral March” resumed, mingling with hysterical crie® of grief and weeping. Lenin’s death was actually due to his attempted assassination in 1918, when he was wounded in the neck, cutting an artery, and causing an insuffi ciency ef blood to flow to the brain. This produced paralysis of the right side. Recentlv he was helpless and speechless, and in such a pitiable condition that it was expected he would be given an opportunity of signalling whether he desired the administration of instantaneous poison.
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New Zealand Times, Volume LI, Issue 11736, 25 January 1924, Page 8
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182DRAMATIC SCENE New Zealand Times, Volume LI, Issue 11736, 25 January 1924, Page 8
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