I know historical hindsight is 20/20, but how did no one bully this guy into giving up his moronic “de-stalinisation” policy? Like the SU was built by Stalin and now suddenly hes satan incarnate? No wonder SU citizens lost faith in the party over time, how can you trust a bunch of weather vanes?
The guy was legitimately a dumbass I don’t know why Stalin kept him around and edited his speeches. He caused a ton of harm to agriculture and genetics. His idea on grafting trees has to be one of the most foolish things I’ve read in a while. Even worse, Khrushchev got rid of him, then brought him back to do more damage for another decade, before getting rid of him again.
Source?
Editing Nature: Joseph Stalin and the “New” Soviet Biology in Isis vol. 84 (4) pp. 728-745 (1993) DOI: 10.1086/356638
https://libstc.cc/#/stc/id.nexus_id:9ko3mb04eo9nsyb1g6wp1by98
He sent this back to Lysenko to remove