Yuri Gastev
1928–1993Yuri Gastev was in hospital when a doctor patient linked Stalin’s Cheyne‑Stokes breathing to a phrase and later referenced it in academic work, leading to an editor’s dismissal.
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At the time of Stalin's death in 1953 Yuri Gastev was in hospital. When the radio announced that Stalin had fallen into Cheyne‑Stokes breathing, another patient who was a doctor recognized the significance and declared, “Cheyne‑Stokes is the end, time to get out the bottle.”
The doctor later included references to Cheyne‑Stokes when defending his degree thesis and added references to it in a book he wrote for the Soviet Cybernetics Council. When this later case was spotted, the editor was sacked; Gastev had already been sacked, so no action was taken against him.
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