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  One thing I didn't realize about the USSR was how much it relied on pseudoscience. Up until the 60s it was illegal to believe in genetics in the Soviet Union, all because one scientist came up with some crackpot alternative theories that Stalin and other politicians preferred.

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  "Lysenko forced farmers to plant seeds very close together since, according to his "law of the life of species", plants from the same "class" never compete with one another. Lysenko played an active role in the famines that killed millions of Soviet people and his practices prolonged and exacerbated the food shortages. The People's Republic of China under Mao Zedong adopted his methods starting in 1958, with calamitous results, culminating in the Great Chinese Famine of 1959 to 1962, in which some 15–55 million people died."

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  • The causes of the Great Chinese Famine are a wee bit more complex than that.Brabo_Brabo
  • The longer back in time you go, the crazier it gets. It applies to all
    https://compote.slat…drgs
  • Some Putin followers are apparently trying to revive Lysenko-ism
    https://twitter.com/…yuekit

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