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Your point is that Soviet education was bad. By 1980 it was as good (if not better) than American education. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Science_and_technolo

Your point is that Soviet education was bad. By 1980 it was as good (if not better) than American education. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Science_and_technology_in_the_Soviet_Union https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Science_and_technology_in_the_... https://www.quora.com/Do-you-believe-Soviet-Union-education-system-was-the-best-in-the-world-at-that-time-Why https://www.quora.com/Do-you-believe-Soviet-Union-education-... https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/2ycco6/how_did_the_quality_of_soviet_education_compare/ https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/2ycco6/how_d... What you're talking about is Lysenkoism and it was mostly during Stalin rule. Later Soviet biologists actually criticized Lysenko and the whole anti-genetics stance. Similar movements also happened in Western science, like Social Darwinism for example.

Fins 8y ago
Social Darwinism or anything like that has never been appointed as the one and only TRUE THING with scientific opponents sent off to labor camps. Also, soviet high elementary through high school education was... I'm not sure if "better" is the correct word, but it certainly taught more science than American schools do, if we compare average American school with a good school in Moscow, Leningrad, or similar large cities. College level education in USSR was nowhere near as good as American -- you can't have good education if teaching people to think for themselves is physically dangerous. [Source: I attended better than average schools and a decent college in Moscow]