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To: one_less who wrote (21025)	6/14/2006 6:45:58 PM
From: JohnM	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 541251

I have no idea what your point is.

To: one_less who wrote (21025)	6/14/2006 6:55:58 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 541251

Remember 'Vernalization'? The result was famines that killed millions, and purges that sent hundreds of dissenting Soviet scientists to the gulags or the firing squads. I had to look that one up. vernalization the act or process of hastening the flowering and fruiting of plants by treating seeds, bulbs, or seedlings so as to induce a shortening of the vegetative period webster.com Its meaning was deformed by Trofim Lysenko during the Lysenkoist period in the Soviet Union. (In Russian language, the term is "yarovizatsiya".) The "revolutionary" postulate of Lysenko was that vernalization is applicable to all plants. Many of the successes of "new" agrotechnique employed on a number of agricultural species were either faked by Lysenkoites (Lysenkovtsy, in Russian), or had their roots in extensive manualmore material to seed, cut sides were covered with charcoal to prevent the mold from growing, etc. etc. - the cost of human labour was nil, so the vernalized crops were looking more profitable to state. Later Lysenko himself denounced his idea, carefully phrasing that "vernalization in mass planing proved nonviable". en.wikipedia.org While belief in mass vernalization might have contributed to the problems in agriculture in the Soviet Union the main cause was forced colectivation of argiculture.