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Warl0k3@lemmy.world 11 hours agoThere 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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Warl0k3@lemmy.world 11 hours agoThere 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.
DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 11 hours ago
Funny, because it ended when he did.
Warl0k3@lemmy.world 11 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 timelineDragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 10 hours ago
Yes, eventually the industrialization of Soviet farming paid off despite his nonsense.
Doesn’t stop it from being the major cause of the interwar famines. As you can provably see when it spread to Mao’s newly formed Chinese state and, surprise, caused famines again when they didn’t have the sheer output of an industrialized agrarianian sector to make up for it.
Warl0k3@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
Sure, it was a pervasive piece of reasoning that existed in a system which would kill you if you tried to criticize the pseudoscience du jour. It had a large influence in soviet culture, yep, but it was absolutely not the sole driving force behind things like the Holodomor.