quote source: https://archive.org/details/safonov-land-in-bloom/page/318/mode/2up?view=theater
Concerning his own future as a Soviet scientist, [Lysenko] speaks in the following terms:
“In our Soviet Union men and women are not born: organisms are born, but men and women are made—tractor drivers, motor drivers, mechanics, academicians, scientists. I was not born a man, I was made a man. And to feel that you are living in such an environment is more than being happy.”
Transitioning would have saved her. Lysenko would have focused on growing weed had he taken E
What’s the deal with Trofim Lysenko, anyways? He seems like one of those figures where there are so many different ideas about him from the relentlessly positive to the relentlessly negative.
Lysenko was a land of contrasts
