I grew-up in a family of soviet scientists. Fraudulent practice of putting name of some high ranking official on scientific paper(in order to get PhD) was rampa

I grew-up in a family of soviet scientists. Fraudulent practice of putting name of some high ranking official on scientific paper(in order to get PhD) was rampant. However, most of those papers were D-grade papers that no one would read. To this day, Russian apparatus practices this BS. There are(were?) websites dedicated to exposing those papers.