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What does this have to do with Soviet Union? Soviet Union always had gifted student programs.
by lostmsu 5y ago
What does this have to do with Soviet Union? Soviet Union always had gifted student programs.
- pushingice 5y agoLysenkoism, usually, when people refer to denial of reality in connection with the Soviet Union.
- inglor_cz 5y agoAlso, there was a weird period when cybernetics was considered bourgeoise pseudo-science. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bourgeois_pseudoscience https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bourgeois_pseudoscience Late Stalinism is worth studying, if only to learn how twisted can an entire country become out of fear.
- garbagecoder 5y agoYeah imagine a country getting freaked out over a few dozens of millions of dead and going crazy and passing a bunch of insane laws and having its politics go insane. It’s not like that doesn’t describe post 9/11 America.
- Viliam1234 5y agoThe timing was a bit different though: first the country got crazy, then it passed a bunch of insane laws, then a few dozens of millions died, then they started WW2 (Molotov–Ribbentrop pact), and then a few more millions died.
- lostmsu 5y agoI don't think denial of reality is something that would be strongly associated with SU, and not because it was not prevalent there, but because of its prevalence everywhere else.
- pandaman 5y agoNo, Soviet Union only got these programs in 1960s, when it started to suffer fully from its sciences being based on the "scientific Marxism-Leninism" and unable to catch up with advances in the West.
- SamReidHughes 5y agoIn short, they’re Commies.