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Our historical documentary series on the history of the Cold War continues with a deeper look at Trofimov Lysenko, a Soviet agronomist who's pseudoscientific ideas gained traction due to their ideological alignment with the Soviet regime, resulting in the deaths of millions. Stalin's Cult of Personality: https://youtu.be/aB8RVCKDiXE How the American Political Parties Switched Their Ideologies: https://youtu.be/SdcreXEWzG0 How the RAND Corporation created American strategy: https://youtu.be/J1mH_O7MzJk The Nuclear Wannabes: Sweden, Brazil and Argentina: https://youtu.be/1LpL6Q1s7TA Israel: the Officially Unofficial Nuclear State: https://youtu.be/dcXSkpRDp2k Taiwan Under the Kuomintang Dictatorship: https://youtu.be/nGYzXNpQclo What Happened to the German and Japanese POWs?: https://youtu.be/JLK1xQV9B84 Operation Paperclip: https://youtu.be/17cNgMpBiWw German Expulsions: https://youtu.be/zyWx4p4hiaY Soviet Education System: https://youtu.be/AD_JwbivtMA How Khrushchev Fed the Soviet People: https://youtu.be/qIZDa7ZcUhE How CIA Used Art Against the USSR: https://youtu.be/EPmomdCzomA How Nuclear Deterrence Theory developed: https://youtu.be/UHIsdbvsuOY America's Secret Nuclear Disaster: https://youtu.be/iXSSCdlTst4 Support us on Patreon: http://www.patreon.com/TheColdWar, Youtube membership https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCCGvq-qmjFmmMD4e-PLQqGg/join ✔ Merch store ► https://teespring.com/stores/thecoldwar ✔ Patreon ► https://www.patreon.com/thecoldwar ✔ Facebook ► https://www.facebook.com/thecoldwartv ✔ Instagram ►http://www.instagram.com/thecoldwartv #ColdWar #TheColdWar #USSR #Sovietunion #Lysenko #Lysenkoism #pseudoscience **SOURCES** Kean, Sam. “The Soviet Era’s Deadliest Scientist Is Regaining Popularity in Russia.” The Atlantic, December 19, 2017. https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2017/12/trofim-lysenko-soviet-union-russia/548786/ Jerry A. Coyne, Faith vs. Fact: Why Science and Religion are Incompatible (Penguin Random House, 2016) Dr Vadim J. Birstein, The Perversion of Knowledge: The True Story of Soviet Science (Basic Books, 2008) William Dejong-Lambert and Nikolai Krementsov (eds.), The Lysenko Controversy as a Global Phenomenon, Volume I: Genetics and Agriculture in the Soviet Union and Beyond (Palgrave Macmillan, 2017) Michael Ellman, "Stalin and the Soviet Famine of 1932–33 Revisited," Europe-Asia Studies, Vol.59, No.4 (2007) Loren R. Graham, Science in Russia and the Soviet Union: A Short History (Cambridge University Press, 1993) Valeriĭ Soyfer, Lysenko and The Tragedy of Soviet Science (Rutgers University Press, 1994)