 His mother took the children to London, where she studied at Stafford House College in Kensington and the London School of Economics.In 1968, José tried to enroll Ilyich and his brother at the Sorbonne in Paris, but eventually opted for the Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow.According to the BBC, it was "a notorious hotbed for recruiting foreign communists to the Soviet Union" (see active measures).