I know historical hindsight is 20/20, but how did no one bully this guy into giving up his moronic "de-stalinisation" policy? Like the SU was built by Stalin and now suddenly hes satan incarnate? No wonder SU citizens lost faith in the party over time, how can you trust a bunch weather vanes?

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[–] ikilledtheradiostar@hexbear.net 11 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (6 children)

was purged for believing genetics was real

That's a pretty interesting claim and sounds pretty wild. Where can I read about the soviets purging genetics believers? You genetics guys gotta be careful ya know.

[–] aaaaaaadjsf@hexbear.net 5 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (4 children)

Read about Trofim Lysenko. He said the concept of a gene was bourgeois.

[–] Hexboare@hexbear.net 11 points 2 days ago (3 children)

In private, however, Stalin ridiculed Lysenko’s view that every science had a “class character”, writing on a report by Lysenko: “Ha-ha-ha…And Mathematics? And Darwinism?”

[–] Hewaoijsdb@hexbear.net 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Source?

[–] Hexboare@hexbear.net 8 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Editing Nature: Joseph Stalin and the "New" Soviet Biology in Isis vol. 84 (4) pp. 728-745 (1993) DOI: 10.1086/356638

https://libstc.cc/#/stc/id.nexus_id:9ko3mb04eo9nsyb1g6wp1by98

He sent this back to Lysenko to remove

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