Trophim Leshenko - A Great Man

By 1930, Vavilov had assembled a collection of more than 250,000 different seeds. He immediately set to work building a network of research institutes and experimental stations all across the USSR. One of those scientists was a man named Trophim Leshenko. "As soon as you hear about someone awesome on this podcast, it's because I'm going to tell you how they get fucked over by the actual folk"