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Part One: The Russian Scientist Who Helped Kill 30 Million People

Behind the Bastards

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Leshanko as Genetics in the Soviet Union

Leshanko denounced Mendelian genetics in the 1935 speech which he delivered in Stalin's presence. More than a billion rubles are invested trying out Leshanko as agricultural theories on the fields and farms of the famine rack Soviet Union. How well did all this work? You want to take a guess? They did not get more plants that they needed.

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