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Trofim Lysenko, rejected Mendelian genetics and said that wheat can be “trained” to grow in cold weather. Even though his theories never produced any substantial amount of wheat, he was made head of the USSR's Institute of Genetics in the Academy of Sciences in 1940 and kept this position until 1965. Any disssenting scientists were jailed or executed.It's amazing how the influence of just one man, with Stalin and Soviet media support, caused all this starvation in Russia. If it wasn't for the USA wheat trading policies, there would have been a lot more casualties.Further reading
You'd have to think, though, that not all dissenting scientists in the USSR would have been treated that way. Otherwise they wouldn't have put Sputnik in the sky, or made progress with their other technological achievements.
