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so the lead scientist didn't die trying to save the seed bank, he was arrested " in 1940, charged with serious crimes that were fabricated; then was tortured, t
by delbel 8y ago
so the lead scientist didn't die trying to save the seed bank, he was arrested " in 1940, charged with serious crimes that were fabricated; then was tortured, tried, found guilty, and sentenced to death by firing squad. Later, his sentence was commuted to 20 years in prison, but his jailors starved him to death in 1943. "
.. then a year later nine other scientist died of starvation
according to the Soviets.
Yeah call me a skeptic on this. I bet they just sentence his fellow scientist with the same crime and then later when they found out he was right, re-wrote the story. Again, serious doubts.
Source #14 in the wikipedia article
The Murder of Nikolai Vavilov
https://www.amazon.com/Murder-Nikolai-Vavilov-Stalins-Persecution/dp/1451656491 https://www.amazon.com/Murder-Nikolai-Vavilov-Stalins-Persec...
- DoreenMichele 8y agoI'm really not sure what you are trying to say. As far as I can tell, the featured article doesn't claim he was one of the people who died protecting the seeds. It just claims he founded the seed bank. He died gruesomely. So did 9 scientists who starved to death. This seems to fit perfectly well with the idea that scientists were treated pretty badly. Would you like to more clearly state what you think is untrue here? Because I'm quite baffled. Thanks.
- PhasmaFelis 8y ago> so the lead scientist didn't die trying to save the seed bank, he was arrested Nobody said otherwise. The article we're discussing tells the same story. You appear to be attacking a strawman that you made up after skimming the article.