• JosefStainlessSteel [none/use name]
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    2 years ago

    Deportations due to suspected collaboration with Nazis

    Almost entirely fictional. This is basically the "Uyghur genocide" of the 1940s.

    As the nazi army ate more into Soviet territory. The Soviet Union then pulled people into the territory to prevent them being exterminated. The classic example is the Crimean Tatars with wikipedia claiming it was a "cultural genocide" (lmao sound familiar?)

    Soviet relationship with China

    Sino-soviet split happened because of the Kruschevites?

    Treatment of religion

    I um and ar about this but at the end of the day a lot Christians were White Guardists and only in 1940s when Stalin allowed Orthodox church back had they really taken on a Soviet orientation that wasnt traitorous

    Lysenkoism

    Lysnko was proven correct

    https://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674089051

    • space_comrade [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      Lysnko was proven correct

      https://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674089051

      That's ridiculous, just because epigenetics are real doesn't mean his theory was sound at all. He made much bolder claims than what empirical evidence of epigenetics shows us.

    • Frank [he/him, he/him]
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      2 years ago

      Epigenetics is not what Lysenko theorized. The results and method of action are completely different. Lysenkoism's superficial resemblance to epigenetic phenomena is an accident of history, not evidence of suppressed genius.

      • Tachanka [comrade/them]
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        2 years ago

        yeah it's like saying anaximander "was right about evolution" because he said humans are descended from mermaids.

      • JosefStainlessSteel [none/use name]
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        2 years ago

        I suspect this is a stretch but don’t have a deep enough knowledge of Lysenko’s claims nor epigenetics to really know.

        I actually read into it further last night and was mistaken. I had heard of Lysenkos resurgence and assumed he was right but it turns out he was just partly right and mostly wrong so ignore that.