Re:The Botanist Who Defied Stalin
by ehw3 on Wednesday April 28, 2021 @08:04PM
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By an odd coincidence I was just today looking around to see if I could find any data or graphs or anything from Lysenko's original work. I didn't turn up anything. Does anyone have any suggestions?
I hadn't thought about Vavilov and all that in years. It happens that my grandmother worked for him briefly in the early 30s. She and her husband decided communism was a good idea and shipped out to Russia from their home (in Philadelphia) and within a year or so concluded that communism was insane. There was (I was told) a certain amount of touch-and-go securing a boat ride for the two of them back to somewhere in Scandinavia and thence back to the US. They both remained staunch anti-communists for the rest of their lives.
Not a lot of point telling all that, I guess, but it is interesting to think that I grew up in a household where Lysenko and the ills he caused were a commonplace. Funny to see it on Hacker News.
I hadn't thought about Vavilov and all that in years. It happens that my grandmother worked for him briefly in the early 30s. She and her husband decided communism was a good idea and shipped out to Russia from their home (in Philadelphia) and within a year or so concluded that communism was insane. There was (I was told) a certain amount of touch-and-go securing a boat ride for the two of them back to somewhere in Scandinavia and thence back to the US. They both remained staunch anti-communists for the rest of their lives.
Not a lot of point telling all that, I guess, but it is interesting to think that I grew up in a household where Lysenko and the ills he caused were a commonplace. Funny to see it on Hacker News.