Gravatar While the numbers aren't quite as high as 135 million, Communist Evolution did kill some people. Stalin really liked this guy Lysenko who had come up with a communist version of Lamarckism. If you were one of those evil "Mendelian" biologists, then you had a good chance at getting sent to the Gulag. Here's a fun quote from the Skeptic's Dictionary (http://skepdic.com/lysenko.html):

Under Lysenko's guidance, science was guided not by the most likely theories, backed by appropriately controlled experiments, but by the desired ideology. Science was practiced in the service of the State, or more precisely, in the service of ideology. The results were predictable: the steady deterioration of Soviet biology. Lysenko's methods were not condemned by the Soviet scientific community until 1965, more than a decade after Stalin's death.


Lysenko's work bears part of the blame for the dismal performance of Soviet farmers. If your seed stock is selected bas




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