I mean in terms of the timeline: you get a glimpse of Molotov chewing him out after you get back to the surface and it’s clear it’s been going on for a while by that point. I think there are other indications the Politburo had been fed up with the creepy mad scientist shit going on in the facility for a long time later too, including the revelation that

I’m not sure where it’s going from there, since I haven’t had a chance to keep playing after starting the drill mode and the long cutscenes that followed, but that’s the state of it in the early game at least.