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Warl0k3@lemmy.world 8 hours agoMan 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
DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 8 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 8 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.
DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 8 hours ago
If you don’t want to understand why a system that forced workers and scientists to lie about production numbers or get shot caused famines during industrial centralization and was the absolute worst thing to have happening concurrently I can’t make you.
Warl0k3@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
So your argument is that it wasn’t just Lysenkoism, but the political situation at the time that exacerbated the faults of Lysenkoism which lead to those famines?
Which has been my entire point this whole time?