Word: sovietism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Implicit Threat. Hitler tried to stamp it out. Franco has suppressed it. The Soviet Union, seeing it as a creed of the bourgeoisie (which in fact it is), has done its best to destroy every vestige of it. To authoritarianism, Masonry has always been an implicit threat...
Sent to a prison hospital, under Soviet guard, Anders was plainly told that he could hope to save his life only by enlisting in the Red Army. He refused-and the Russians went to work...
...Asked Soviet Author Kononenko: "Why can't the collective farmer or ordinary worker become a hero? That's what should be impressed more often...
Professor Julian Huxley went to the Moscow Science Celebrations in 1945 and was enormously impressed with the Soviet attitude toward science. It seemed to him that his Russian colleagues enjoyed freedom of discussion, were generous in their appreciation of British and other foreign scientists, and were "anxious to exchange ideas, results and visits." Summing up, Huxley said: "It is certainly clear that without the U.S.S.R., neither a world political organization nor the world's intellectual life can flourish successfully...
With the patient care of a scientific researcher gathering evidence, Professor Huxley reviews the enslavement of Soviet scientists. The test case is biology, his own science. He tells how, step by step, Trofim Lysenko, a "scientifically illiterate" plant-breeder, was enthroned as absolute boss of Soviet biology with all his opponents "dismissed or disgraced." Dr. Huxley knows Lysenko and considers him a better politician than a scientist. In conversations he found that Lysenko and his followers "simply do not talk the same language as Western men of science." Much of Professor Huxley's long article consists of quotations from...