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• DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Lysenkoism was the cause of both the Soviet and Chinese famines, a grand tragedy only possible under an authoritarian fever dream.

  Ignore the lessons of history if you want, it just makes you the villain of the next cycle.

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  • Warl0k3@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    There was no one single cause, and trying to deflect blame onto a single (exceptionally whackdoodle) pseudoscientific theory is intellectually dishonest at best, and regular dishonest at worst.

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    • DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Funny, because it ended when he did.

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      • Warl0k3@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Man yeah, the fall of Lysenkoism is really the defining moment of mid-late 1940s soviet russia. Couldn’t possibly have been any other factors which played into the shift in cultural attitudes within the soviet union at that time. Nope, must have been down to Lysenkoism itself.

        Also it ended in the 60s and the last big soviet famine was in 47s so idk about that timeline

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  • Eldritch@piefed.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I don't think I've ever up voted a comment of yours. But you are 100% on point about Lysenko. His promotion and the treatment of Vavilov are emblematic of a few of the many many flaws of Leninism. Vavilov was at least posthumously exonerated.Though he still died in a Siberian gulag for the crime of disagreeing with comrade Stalin, and sticking to the evidence.

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• Fedizen@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I wouldn’t associate that with a revolution though. Similar to how the “Irish potato famine” was something the brits did to Ireland.

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