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In case anyone’s curious… this is Actual Stalinism
A project was proposed to plant trees in a gigantic network of shelterbelts or windbreaks (лесополоса, lesopolosa, “forest strip”) across the steppes of the southern Soviet Union, similar to what had been done in the northern plains of the United States in the 1930s following drought and the extensive damage of the Dust Bowl years.
A staunch critic of Lysenkoism, Vladimir Nikolayevich Sukachev was a Russian geobotanist, engineer, geographer, and corresponding member (1920) and full member (1943) of the USSR Academy of Sciences. And he lead an enormous faction of like-minded scientists in objecting to Lysenko’s pseudo-scientific theories.
But yes, Lysenko was the RFK Jr of the early USSR. A reactionary who was far better at playing to the egos of national leadership than engaging in novel or useful biological research. The end result set the country back decades - arguably indefinitely, given the modern state of Russian science and technology.
RFK wishes he worked in a system that lets him shoot actual scientists in the head
