For decades, the lives of Soviet citizens hung on the whims of Trofim Lysenko, a man who believed that plants could be taught to bloom in winter and that nature could be mastered by raw force.
Instead, Lysenko thought that seeds could be “educated” or trained to respond directly to the stimuli in their environment.
As head of Soviet agriculture, Lysenko spun impossible tales of how his pseudoscience could produce all manner of crops in Russia
What ensued was a bizarre series of agricultural experiments that ultimately ended in disaster, famine, and spelled the deaths of as many as 7 million Russians.
he (Lysenko) believed that plants and seeds could be trained to follow socialist organizational principles. His theory, which would eventually be dubbed Lysenkoism, stated that crops could be trained to conform and produce vast yields almost from out of thin air.
Stalin, however, inherited a desperately hungry and under-developed country. ... it was up to him ...
In 1928, Stalin initiated the collectivization of all farms across the Soviet Union, forcing peasants across the country onto cooperatives under state control in what amounted to a hostile takeover of traditional Russian agriculture. The result was catastrophic. Crops were destroyed, viable land was lost, grain was hoarded, and famine engrossed the country.
Lysenko promised to transform the whole of Russia into a super-farm that churned out unnaturally durable produce. It was music to Stalin’s ears — but a death knell for millions.
His (Lysenkos) choice to expose seeds to different temperatures, pack them tightly together in the fields and forbid the use of pesticides and fertilizers resulted in record crop failures.Detta lär däremot SvampTrasan mena är hög IQ beteende.
Especially risky were his treatments like scraping seeds with sandpaper or treating them with acid, which weakened them to blights and fungal infections, making any plants that did sprout insufficient for food and potentially dangerous to eat.
Stalin’s policies resulted in what is now known as the Holodomor, a Ukrainian term which loosely translates to “hunger plague.” As many as seven to 10 million died of starvation while Lysenko oversaw the country’s farms,
As a part of Mao’s Great Leap Forward, an effort to jump-start every sector of China’s economy and industry, the mistakes of collectivization and Lysenkoism were mimicked nearly to the letter.
The failure of these efforts was predictable, but the scale of the destruction wrought in China surpassed that of even the Holodomor. Between 1959 and 1961, as many as 45 million Chinese people died as a result of starvation, malnutrition, illness, and injury after the country’s farms were wrecked by Lysenko’s crackpot ideas. This period of time would become known as The Great Chinese Famine.
For decades, the lives of Soviet citizens hung on the whims of Trofim Lysenko, a man who believed that plants could be taught to bloom in winter and that nature could be mastered by raw force.
Instead, Lysenko thought that seeds could be “educated” or trained to respond directly to the stimuli in their environment.
As head of Soviet agriculture, Lysenko spun impossible tales of how his pseudoscience could produce all manner of crops in Russia
What ensued was a bizarre series of agricultural experiments that ultimately ended in disaster, famine, and spelled the deaths of as many as 7 million Russians.
he (Lysenko) believed that plants and seeds could be trained to follow socialist organizational principles. His theory, which would eventually be dubbed Lysenkoism, stated that crops could be trained to conform and produce vast yields almost from out of thin air.
Stalin, however, inherited a desperately hungry and under-developed country. ... it was up to him ...
In 1928, Stalin initiated the collectivization of all farms across the Soviet Union, forcing peasants across the country onto cooperatives under state control in what amounted to a hostile takeover of traditional Russian agriculture. The result was catastrophic. Crops were destroyed, viable land was lost, grain was hoarded, and famine engrossed the country.
Lysenko promised to transform the whole of Russia into a super-farm that churned out unnaturally durable produce. It was music to Stalin’s ears — but a death knell for millions.
His (Lysenkos) choice to expose seeds to different temperatures, pack them tightly together in the fields and forbid the use of pesticides and fertilizers resulted in record crop failures.Detta lär däremot SvampTrasan mena är hög IQ beteende.
Especially risky were his treatments like scraping seeds with sandpaper or treating them with acid, which weakened them to blights and fungal infections, making any plants that did sprout insufficient for food and potentially dangerous to eat.
Stalin’s policies resulted in what is now known as the Holodomor, a Ukrainian term which loosely translates to “hunger plague.” As many as seven to 10 million died of starvation while Lysenko oversaw the country’s farms,
As a part of Mao’s Great Leap Forward, an effort to jump-start every sector of China’s economy and industry, the mistakes of collectivization and Lysenkoism were mimicked nearly to the letter.
The failure of these efforts was predictable, but the scale of the destruction wrought in China surpassed that of even the Holodomor. Between 1959 and 1961, as many as 45 million Chinese people died as a result of starvation, malnutrition, illness, and injury after the country’s farms were wrecked by Lysenko’s crackpot ideas. This period of time would become known as The Great Chinese Famine.
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