#RUSSIA: #LENIN: From a conversation with colleague Paul Gregory of Hoover re the machination by Stalin to have Leinin's brain -- just the brain-- declared that of a genius, so Stalin could inherit the role of genius. The brain exists today, in Moscow.
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John Batchelor
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🗓️ 12 February 2024
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Lenin (Ulyanov), undated.
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| 0:30.2 | This is John Matcher from a conversation with my colleague Paul Gregory of the Hoover Institution about Lenin's brain. |
| 0:37.0 | This is grotesque, bizarre, unbelievable Hollywood. |
| 0:41.0 | Stalin wanted to prove that Lenin was a genius. Lenin died without Stalin's |
| 0:46.3 | presence. He was off in his office, smoking his pipe. So Stalin afterwards conceived the idea that will make him a genius so I can inherit his role. |
| 0:57.0 | How Stalin wanted to do that was to have the brain examined and said to be that of a genius because it's bizarre. I don't |
| 1:07.0 | have any more detail than that. Here's Paul Gregory explaining the quandary |
| 1:12.0 | that Stalin found himself in when two of his assistants came up with |
| 1:19.2 | an idea about how to make the brain into the brain of a genius, how to get it validated as that of a genius. |
| 1:26.3 | It's all bizarre. |
| 1:28.3 | Also I learned from Paul, the brain exists. |
| 1:30.9 | It's in the Lenin Institute, whatever that's called today in Moscow. |
| 1:34.1 | The brain, just as if this was a Frankenstein movie. |
| 1:38.8 | Lenin's brain. |
| 1:39.9 | Paul Gregory, Hoover Institution. |
| 1:42.4 | More of this later. |
| 1:44.3 | Stylen... |
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