Word: zhebrak
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Dangerous Step. Science of Oct. 5, 1945 printed an article by Biologist Anton R. Zhebrak which looked (to Americans) like an able defense of the freedom of Soviet science. The Soviet Union, said Zhebrak, has many good scientists and allows them professional liberty. Her geneticists, particularly, are doing excellent work...
...Soviet's Zhebrak was on solid, safe ground. But he took another dangerous step forward. He admitted the world's low opinion of Soviet genetics. There is an impression abroad, he said, that all Soviet geneticists are followers of Lysenko. This is not so, said Zhebrak. Many Soviet geneticists "are sharply critical of [Lysenko's] theories...
...nearly two years Zhebrak's indiscretion went unpunished. Then, a few weeks ago, the storm began to break over his head. Three devoutly Communist poets, writing in the very nonscientific Literary Gazette, keelhauled him for agreeing with foreigners who do not admire Lysenko. "Under the mask of giving an objective account of the state of genetics in the U.S.S.R.," wrote the three poets, "Zhebrak takes up complete solidarity with the most reactionary American professors...