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Stalin suffered a physical abnormality in his left arm, making it distinctly shorter than the right.[/QUOTE]
Wow, you don't call two toes fused together an abnormality? This is a tough contest!!! Ok, next Stalin question: What other physical abnormality did Stalin suffer?? Answer: Two frickin' toes fused together! Next Stalin question: How many staffers referred to Stalin's left arm as a chicken wing and lived to tell about it?
Wow, you don't call two toes fused together an abnormality? This is a tough contest!!! Ok, next Stalin question: What other physical abnormality did Stalin suffer?? Answer: Two frickin' toes fused together! Next Stalin question: How many staffers referred to Stalin's left arm as a chicken wing and lived to tell about it?
His guards were forbidden to wake him, so even though he did not rise by his usual 10 am after suffering a stroke, no one dared enter the dacha to check on him until 12 hours later. Even then, most guards and officials did not feel they had proper authority to summon a doctor, so Stalin was not seen until the next day. And to make matters worse, the best doctors were in prison as part of one of Stalin's many purges, so his usual doctors were unavailable to treat him. Finally, no one was really in a hurry to save this guy ... many of his own people wanted him dead.
Stalin could exercise great cruelty, even when in a playful mood. It is common knowledge that Stalin prohibited his guards from entering his private bed chambers on pain of death. One day, in a test of their resilience, Stalin decided to scream as if in great agony. When his loyal guards came to their master’s aid, they were duly executed for failing to follow orders.
When Stalin did actually endure a paralysing seizure, whilst alone in his bedroom, none of his guards dared to come to his aid, on the fear of very tangible reprisals. He was later found semi-conscious by Peter Lozgachev, Deputy Commandant of Kuntsevo, on the floor of the room. He died within a week.
