
The Seeds of Starvation
The Disappearing Spoon: a science history podcast with Sam Kean
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The VIR was housing the collective global heritage of food, irreplaceable cultivars and varieties. But when asked whether they wanted to save that food, Soviet officials said, yet, those filthy geneticists could fend for themselves. Imagine what this must have done for morale at the VIR. Their boss had already been disappeared. They were demoralized and called traitors for their science. Now Nazis were marching on Leningrad, eager to steal their life's work. Who would not despair? And then things got even worse. The battle for Leningrad deteriorated into a deadly slog. Rather than waste lives and resources in a shooting war, the Nazis laid siege to the city. Instead
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