History Lesson For Today – Lysenkoism

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Common Core, controlling the message, Education, Josef Stalin, Redistribution of Wealth, RUSSIA, social engineering, Trofim Lynsenko, Ukraine, Utopia

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Special tip of the hat to Cleetus whose comment on a piece in The Federalist got me looking into Lysenkoism. I may be late to the party in knowing about this, but I offer today’s post for anyone else who doesn’t know this important historical figure.

Meet Trofim Denisovich Lysenko, born 1898 in what today is the Ukraine to peasant parents. He obtained a doctorate in agricultural science at the Kiev Agricultural Institute in 1925 and rejected Mendelian genetics, the kind most of us know today as the classical genetics of inherited biological features, in favor of pseudo-scientific hybridization theories. In short, he believed that species and environment were entwined in such a way that, given the proper environmental conditions, any species could be changed, e.g. a wheat plant could produce rye seed under the right conditions. He was beginning his working career just as the Soviet Union was suffering a terrible famine while Stalin was in power. The famine was greatly due to Stalin’s collectivists policies which had confiscated farms from the peasants, took seed stock for future plantings and used it as feed stock, and cause many of the peasants to retaliate with poor quality work. The Communist Party was desperate for a savior to step forward with a solution from science. Enter Trofim Lynsenko.

The short version of his meteoric rise and fall comes from Wikipedia (and is confirmed in other sources, but copied here for expedience.)

“Lysenko emerged during this period by advocating radical but unproven agricultural methods, and also promising that the new methods provided wider opportunities for year-round work in agriculture. Lysenko proved himself very useful to the Soviet leadership by reengaging peasants to return to work, helping to secure from them a personal stake in the overall success of the Soviet revolutionary experiment.

Lysenko’s theories did produce some increased crop yields but nothing close to what he had predicted. However, in a time of crisis those kinds of details can get lost. More importantly….

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Professor praises Stalin, claims he never committed ‘one crime’

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Educational Institutions, Historical Revisionism, Josef Stalin, Mass Murders, Montclair University, RUSSIA, Soviet Union

Josef Stalin

CAMPUS REFORM.ORG

A professor at a public university recently denied Soviet Union Leader Joseph Stalin was responsible for the murder of millions, saying he has ‘yet to find one crime – one crime that Stalin committed.’

‘I know they say he killed 20, 30, 40 million people,’ continued Grover Furr, a professor in Medieval English at Montclair State University.

‘It’s bullshit.’

‘Professor Grover Furr of Montclair State University said he has yet to find ‘one crime that Stalin committed.’

Furr made the comments at a campus debate featuring three individuals supposedly representing conservative, liberal, and libertarian political views.

Following the debate, a student pressed Furr on his comments reminding the professor that most historians believe ‘100 to 150 million people [were] killed by communist regimes….

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Of course, historians on both the left and the right would beg to differ along with the family members of Stalin’s victims.

Major Soviet Paper Says 20 Million Died As Victims of Stalin published by the NYT 020489

A Soviet weekly newspaper today published the most detailed accounting of Stalin’s victims yet presented to a mass audience here, indicating that about 20 million died in labor camps, forced collectivization, famine and executions.

The estimates, by the historian Roy Medvedev, were printed in the weekly tabloid Argumenti i Fakti, which has a circulation of more than 20 million.

The estimated number of deaths is about equal to the number of Soviet soldiers and civilians believed killed in World War II.

Mr. Medvedev’s grim arithmetic was reported in a less detailed version last November in Moscow News, a limited-circulation weekly, which sells about 200,000 copies in Russian, but today’s article marked the first time the numbers have been disclosed to a nationwide audience.

In all, Mr. Medvedev calculated about 40 million victims of Stalin’s repressions, including those arrested, driven from their land or blacklisted….

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Professor Furr is guilty of HISTORICAL REVISIONISM!!!!!

Furr is the cancer in that preys upon young minds in our educational institutions.  He should be terminated and kept away from young people but instead he’ll probably earn the professor of the year award.

NDAA: Congress Signed Its Own Arrest Warrants

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Dictatorship, Germany, Guantanomo Bay, Hitler, Indefinite Detention, Italy, Josef Stalin, National Defense Authorization Act, NDAA, obama, Obama Administration, Obama Appointees, Obama doctrine, Obama lies, Obama's Civilian Service, Obama's lap dogs, Obama's legacy, Oppression, Tyranny, USA, War on America, War on Constitution

I ran across this article, thought it a good read and worth sharing.  The article is written by Progressive, Naomi Wolf of whom I am definitely NOT a fan.  It is a  warning to Congress:

“‘..I never thought I would have to write this: but – incredibly – Congress has now passed the National Defense Appropriations Act, with Amendment 1031, which allows for the military detention of American citizens. The amendment is so loosely worded that any American citizen could be held without due process. The language of this bill can be read to assure Americans that they can challenge their detention – but most people do not realize what this means: at Guantanamo and in other military prisons, one’s lawyer’s calls are monitored, witnesses for one’s defense are not allowed to testify, and one can be forced into nudity and isolation. Incredibly, ninety-three Senators voted to support this bill and now most of Congress: a roster of names that will live in infamy in the history of our nation, and never be expunged from the dark column of the history books.

They may have supported this bill because – although it’s hard to believe – they think the military will only arrest active members of Al Qaida; or maybe, less naively, they believe that ‘at most’, low-level dissenting figures, activists, or troublesome protesters might be subjected to military arrest. But they are forgetting something critical: history shows that those who signed this bill will soon be subject to arrest themselves…

…Mussolini, who created the modern template for fascism, was a duly elected official when he started to direct paramilitary forces against Italian citizens: yes, he sent the Blackshirts to beat up journalists, editors, and union leaders; but where did these militarized groups appear most dramatically and terrifyingly, snapping at last the fragile hold of Italian democracy? In the halls of the Italian Parliament. Whom did they physically attack and intimidate? Mussolini’s former colleagues in Parliament – as they sat, just as our Congress is doing, peacefully deliberating and debating the laws. Whom did Hitler’s Brownshirts arrest in the first wave of mass arrests in 1933? Yes, journalists, union leaders and editors; but they also targeted local and regional political leaders and dragged them off to secret prisons and to torture that the rest of society had turned a blind eye to when it had been directed at the ‘other.’ Who was most at risk from assassination or arrest and torture, after show trials, in Stalin’s Russia? Yes, journalists, editors and dissidents: but also physically endangered, and often arrested by militarized police and tortured or worse, were senior members of the Politburo who had fallen out of favor.…“

Occupy Vancouver: Death

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Drugs, Fascism, Josef Stalin, Marxism, NYT, Occupy OKC, Occupy Oklahoma City, Progressivism, socialism, Walter Duranty

When will enough be enough?  The news coming out of the Marxist encampments keep getting worse.

 

For the second time, in less than a week, a young person has died at one of these communes under questionable circumstances.

On Saturday, a young woman who has yet to experience life was found, not breathing at the commune known as Occupy Vancouver, i.e., dead from a suspected overdose.

 

 

 

 

“…The woman, whom Occupy participants were calling ‘Ashley’ was found unresponsive by Occupy’s medical team around 4:30 p.m. and was taken to the hospital, where she was pronounced dead. The death, following an overdose at the site Thursday, prompted Mayor Gregor Robertson to say there is an urgent need to shut down the site due to ‘life safety’ issues.

 

‘Obviously really really tragic circumstances – this loss of life and the overdose just a few days ago clearly demonstrate though that the situation here in camp has deteriorated. Life safety is paramount,’ Robertson said at an 8 p.m. media scrum on the west side of the art gallery. ‘I have directed the city manager to expedite the appropriate steps to end the encampment as soon as possible, with a safe resolution being absolutely critical to that…”     

 

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Occupy Victoria protesters given notice to vacate Monday

“VANCOUVER — Officials at the cities of Vancouver and Victoria have reached the end of their patience with Occupy protesters, but each city is trying a dramatically different tact to clear the Occupy sites.

Victoria issued official notice to protesters Sunday telling them they had until noon Monday to clear out, and that the occupation conflicts with other planned events….

…In Vancouver, city officials are hoping to negotiate an end to the occupation….”

The ugly reality is that the tragic deaths of young Louis Rodriquez, a street poet at OKC and “Ashley” and their families in the eyes of the Progressives running the show are considered collateral damage, a distraction and said distractions will not be tolerated.

Stalin apologist, Walter Duranty, wrote:

 

“—to put it brutally—you can’t make an omelette without breaking eggs, and the Bolshevist leaders are just as indifferent to the casualties that may be involved in their drive toward socializaton as any General during the World War who ordered a costly attack in order to show his superiors that he and his division possessed the proper soldierly spirit. In fact, the Bolsheviki are more indifferent because they are animated by fanatical conviction…” 

Progressives pulling the strings behind this Marxofascist occupation invasion movement are of the same mind set.  They will not waste a second mulling over the deaths of useful idiots whom they are aggressively manipulating into bequeathing their liberties and their soul.

The time is now to send these young misguided and manipulated fools home to their families while they are still breathing by Progressives attempting to achieve their end game.

Occupy Palm Beach “Moves On” to Protest Allen West 10182011

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Florida, Josef Stalin, Marxism, obama, Obama doctrine, Obama lies, Obama's Civilian Service, Obama's lap dogs, Obama's legacy, Occupy Palm Beach, Palm Beach, Power Grab, Progressives

THE SHARK TANK

“Earlier this morning, the ‘Occupy Wall Street’ protest extravaganza made its latest stop down in Palm Beach, Florida in order to stage a protest outside the location of Congressman Allen West’s townhall meeting.  Upon arriving at this little ‘gathering,’ I took it upon myself to ask a few simple questions of the demonstrators to find out what they were doing on a rainy street corner, and what exactly they were protesting.

As you will see in the video, the first protester answered my questions as best as she could, but then the next protester (we will call him Homer) injected his thoughts into the conversation and became perplexed by my simple questions.  I asked Homer who was organizing the event, and he could not bring himself to openly answer the question.  It wasn’t until one of the clip-board wielding ‘community organizers’ stepped in and  spilled the beans as to who was organizing the event.  The event was organized by Florida One, Occupy Palm Beach, as well as a few other organizations which he didn’t want to mention that organized the whole protest…”

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I wonder how many of these Soros Marxist puppets voted for their comrade, Debbie Wasserman Schultz.   That would explain their disdain for Allen West and their lack of transparency especially since they have all their facts wrong.

Just like Stalin loved his “useful idiots,” Barack Obama is no doubt overjoyed.

Stalin Billboards for Victory Day; Russian Communist Leader Calls Billboards Divisive

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Josef Stalin, RUSSIA, Stalin

Stalin’s cap, seen at the Russian State Archive. City Hall is planning to post signs explaining his role in World War II. Photo courtesy of Igor Tabakov / MoscowTimes

I find it hard to believe that the people of Russia would sit back quietly while billboards of Josef Stalin are set up for display throughout Moscow.

Stalin has the blood of more than 20 million Russians on his hands.  During his rule, he brought nothing but grief to the people of Russia.
The biggest blunder any nation and its people can make would be to disregard the atrocities of this criminal and mass murderer.

MOSCOW TIMES

“City Hall plans to set up billboards in central Moscow to explain dictator Josef Stalin’s role in the Soviet victory over Nazi Germany, an idea that has drawn criticism from a senior state official and rights activists alike.

The billboards will be erected on the request of ‘numerous veterans organizations’ in time for Victory Day on May 9 as part of the celebrations of the 65th anniversary of the defeat of Germany in World War II, Moscow Advertising Committee head Vladimir Makarov said in an e-mailed statement Thursday….

The Stalin billboards will be placed at traditional meeting places of veterans on Poklonnaya Gora, Manezh Square, Gogolevsky Bulvar, Sokolniki Park, Vorobyovy Gory and several other places, Makarov said.

The content of the billboards will be sent for approval either to the Defense Ministry’s Institute of Military History or to the Central Museum of the Great Patriotic War in Moscow, Makarov said.

Former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, State Duma Speaker Boris Gryzlov, Yabloko leader Sergei Mitrokhinand several human rights activists decried the move Thursday.

’Stalin made many mistakes, especially ahead of the war and at the start of it,’ Gorbachev said, Interfax reported. He speculated that for many the informational billboards would ‘elicit misunderstanding and surprise….”

Plans for Stalin billboards divisive

“Russian Communist leader Gennady Zyuganov said on Thursday that plans to put up images of Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin around Moscow to mark the 65th anniversary of victory in World War Two were unlikely to be realised.

Moscow mayor Yury Luzhkov announced plans to display portraits of Stalin in Moscow in February. Human rights activists protested against the decision, saying they would stage demonstrations if the posters were put up. Defending the decision, Luzhkov said while he was not a Stalin apologist, the billboards reflected “objective history.”

‘I am not sure the Moscow city government would be enough brave to bring this idea to life,’ Zyuganov told journalists at a news-conference, noting that the plan had seen fierce criticism.”

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