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tagging here because I think grad is defedded and also to not derail your otherwise good comment
https://hexbear.net/post/7197878/6786608
I know you're just listing criticisms you'd heard and not making this claim yourself, but I wanted to point out that this is likely one of the many Khrushchev inventions that don't survive the opening of the Soviet Archives. I'm pulling from memory and a brief re-skim of Roberts' Stalin's Wars ch 4 and Medvedev's Unknown Stalin ch 11 here, so I recommend checking those out in addition to the poorly-summarized points I'm haphazardly throwing out below:
The day before the invasion Stalin calls the Moscow air defense and puts them on immediate alert.
That same evening a German deserts to the Soviets and warns of an attack, prompting Stalin and the leadership to send military directives in preparation for the attack.
Secretary records and visitor logs show Stalin working in his office until 2:00AM on the 22nd prior to the attack, then leaving to his home to sleep, then returning at 3:40AM when the attack happens.
Other leadership starts showing up at Stalin's office at 5:45AM, there's records of continuous meetings throughout the day.
Stalin leaves in the evening to try to sleep, but returns again at 3:00AM the 23rd.
Logs then show officials don't leave Stalin's office until 1:45AM the 24th.
Apologies for the rushed formatting lol
TIL, thanks!
I havent looked into it in awhile so i forget but wasnt Lysenkoism also a bit of a nothing burger (lol i hate this phrase but it popped into. my head while typing)
I've read some defences of it, but I'm not a biologist/geneticist so don't really know. I tend not to trust ideological reimaginings of scientific topics, like that one Trot cult guy that claims to have debunked the big bang theory with dialectical materialism. Of course capitalist science, as everything, should be examined critically, but just because someone's well-read in philosophy (or is a Trot that claims to be lmao) doesn't mean they know shit about biology or genetics.
Epigenetics might give it some ground, and there might be records of Lysenkoist practices actually improving yields (I haven't investigated this claim).
But my only real takeaway from it at this point is Lysenkoism or a rejection of western geneticism is pretty understandable for its time (even if it was ultimately incorrect) given the latter's close ties with eugenics and racism, something Western academia has tried to whitewash. I mean fuck, genetic determinists are still widespread and nonsense like The Bell Curve are still touted as truth by some, so the field could definitely use some radical criticism by someone well-versed in the science of it.