The head of the secret police, öøÙl6< ¯ÏNÂd2y~n, was ordered “to identify a reliable comrade to be designated as the responsible depository of Lenin’s brain as work on it proceeded.” The project design was set: the eminent Vogt was in overall charge; the brain was to remain in Moscow; and “reliable” communist- physicians were to be trained under Vogt.

Surely, a communist- physician would know what the party required of him.