Part One: The Russian Scientist Who Helped Kill 30 Million People
Behind the Bastards
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The Greatest Scientist in the World, Nikolai Vavilov
The most brilliant scientist in the Soviet Union is a guy named Nikolai Vavilov. He traveled to 64 countries on five continents collecting seeds. All of our notions about biological diversity and needing diversity of food on our plates sprang from his work.
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