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Is It Good to Be a Scientist in a Soviet System?
There is interesting incentives in the Soviet system that maybe we can take this tangent for a brief moment. Because there's a dictatorship, authoritarian regime throughout the history of the 20th century for the Soviet Union, science was prioritized. And because the state prioritized it through the propaganda machines of the news and so on,. It actually was really cool to be a scientist, like you were highly valued in society.