if we just keep bleeding the West, and just keep it going longer.

And they split in the early hours. And by about 6:00 the next night, you know, a whole day had
gone past. They were always waiting to hear from Stalin, but no one had heard from him. And sometime at
that -- sometime during that day, Stalin suffered a stroke. He was in his pajamas, and he was holding up a
newspaper and a bottle of -- a bottle of mineral water. And he was running around in his private
apartments. And he fell down. He was soaked in his own urine. And he was lying there and he couldn`t
move. He was awake, and he was waiting to be discovered.

And the bodyguards were getting very nervous. Because they never wentin until they were called.
And they waited and waited and waited. And finally they went in and they saw him. They crept in. The
post arrived, so they had an excuse to go in. And then they found him there lying in his pajamas. They
were terrified. They immediately rang up Beria and Malenkov and all these characters. And they were all
terrified too, because the doctors had just been arrested for saying he was ill. So they had to make damn
sure he really was ill before they did anything.

And that`s why Stalin was sort of left for 12 hours, effectively, lying in his own urine, waiting to be
got up, getting colder and colder. I mean, his staff lifted him up and put him on a sofa. And then after a
while...

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