Word: nikolais
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Latterly, the heaviest propaganda fire has been concentrated on one science-genetics. Russians, both before & after the revolution, excelled in genetics. But under Stalin the great school of Soviet geneticists led by Nikolai Vavilov has been utterly destroyed. Its members, who agreed in general with Western geneticists, have been disgraced and removed from their university posts. Some have died in forced labor camps. An obscure plant-breeder named Trofim Lysenko has been raised by the Soviet state to a sort of genetic dictator. Any Russian scientist who wants to work in genetics must bow low to Lysenko, though his doctrines...
...Each claimed a simon-pure record in the party. "Look here," boasted Boris, "I've been to Moscow three times. I've been a party member for 26 years and I've read every word that Karl Marx ever wrote." "That's nothing," crowed Nikolai, "I was a Resistance leader. I fought in the underground. I have a signed letter from Lenin, and I've been a party member since the day I was born...
...Well," said the bewildered minister, "that's wonderful. Both of you have excellent records, but I still can't decide which of you is the better Communist." "Very well," said Boris, drawing his revolver and shooting Nikolai neatly through the head. "This should answer that question...
...Flame), Professor Sergei Ivanovich Vavilov, president of the Soviet Academy of Sciences, explained: "A Soviet scientist considers any successful work as impossible, in any field of knowledge, without a thorough mastery of the laws of dialectical materialism." Professor Vavilov is something of an authority on such matters. His brother Nikolai, a famous Russian geneticist and an opponent of Lysenko, disappeared mysteriously about 1942 and is believed to have died in a concentration camp...
...Dream of the Comb. To Nikolai Fedorovich, Galina had written: "I feel just as melancholy as you . . . There are always dreams passing through my mind. When I awake in the morning I look at your picture. I look at it 30 times a day. Without it my heart aches, and there is no rest for my soul...