The Battle Between Leshanko and Actual Science

The battle between Leshanko and actual science comes to a head in 1936 when the Soviet Union's geneticists met up for a conference at the Lenin Academy. Vavilov, not only a good man and scientist, brave at this point to still be standing by his scientific principles. He was interrogated for 11 months and eventually sent to a Gulag where he starved to death in 1943. Hundreds, perhaps thousands of geneticists were arrested and denounced as agents of international fascism. Most of them were starved to death.