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In 1932, Stalin's authoritarian central planning program wrecked Soviet agriculture, starving millions. As the crisis deepened, Trofim Lysenko, a mediocre agronomist backed by Stalin, rejected established genetics as "bourgeois pseudoscience" and reorganized Soviet agriculture around his ideological theories. Plants could be trained by their environment, he claimed. Wheat could learn to resist cold through exposure. Scientific evidence was capitalist propaganda.
When the predictable disasters struck, Lysenko did not admit error. Instead, he blamed the scientists he had silenced. The geneticists he had purged were "wreckers" and "saboteurs" whose treachery explained why his methods failed. Thousands of real scientists were imprisoned or executed while millions of Soviet citizens starved.
What happened next reveals a three-step method that authoritarians use today....
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