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His experiments didn’t lead to thousands of victims but Lysenko made sure that the Soviet Union would lag decades behind when it came to scientific rechearch. Lysenko was specialised in agriculture and he had the habit of only reporting successful experiments. His results were based on false reports and the like.

He was, in short, a quack scientist and a fraud. To disagree with Lysenko risked the gulag and yet he damaged, perhaps irreparably, the Soviet Union’s capacity to fight and win the Cold War.

Let’s say Lysenko dies of the Spanish Flu in, say, the late 1910s. What now?
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