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From: byker@do~rag.net

"David P." wrote in message news:5768f5d6-9fb6-44c0-9722-220a11ccb858n@googlegroups.com...

Karl Marx was afflicted by poor health (what he himself described as "the wretchedness of existence") & various authors have sought to describe & explain it. His biographer Werner Blumenberg attributed it to liver & gall problems which Marx had in 1849 & from which he was never afterwards free, exacerbated by an unsuitable lifestyle.

That's nothing compared to what his disciples went through: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PNF14QgjiGI

That Lenin had syphilis comes as no surprise. I was surprised,
however, that Nikita Khrushchev was the healthiest of the lot...

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