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There is a good book Stalin and the Soviet Science Wars about this. Imagine the dilemma: you are a nuclear physicist and Lenin says that atoms are indivisible.

• the-dude 8y ago
  You fuse two atoms.
  • gaius 8y ago
    You look Stalin in the eye and tell him he has to choose between Marxism-Leninism and having an atom bomb...
    • the-dude 8y ago
      That is unfair : you have read the book!
      • gaius 8y ago
        It’s not clear why Lenin felt the need to state this, he obviously didn’t know anything about it, but he did, and so it became the official position of Soviet science. But Stalin was nothing if not pragmatic so...