When Hitler Took Cocaine and Lenin Lost His Brain by Giles Milton Page A

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    When Lenin Lost His Brain
    The mould is regularly wiped from his face and his body is occasionally bathed in glycerol to prevent it from rotting. But despite being on display for almost nine decades, Vladimir Lenin’s preserved corpse is in remarkable condition. He looks as if he has drifted into a deep sleep.
    But Lenin is hiding a secret, one that is almost invisible to the naked eye. Before being embalmed, scientists sliced open his head and carefully removed his brain in order that it could be studied in microscopic detail. The Soviet regime wanted to know the exact nature of Lenin’s genius.
    It was an investigation that appalled Lenin’s widow, Nadezhda Krupskaya. When her husband died on 21 January 1924, she begged for him to be buried in the plot next to his beloved mother. ‘Do not put up buildings or monuments in his name,’ she said.
    But Lenin’s Politburo colleagues strongly disagreed. Indeed, they wanted his corpse to become a permanent monument to the revolution. Felix Dzerzhinsky, chairman of the Lenin Funeral Committee, said: ‘If science permits, Lenin’s body must be preserved’.
    This posed a real problem. There were many known techniques for embalming a body in the manner of the ancient Egyptians but none that could be guaranteed to preserve Lenin’s likeness.
    When the distinguished Soviet pathologist Aleksei Abrikosov was asked if it was possible, he replied that ‘science today has no such means’. Others disagreed.