• pythonoob@programming.dev
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    2 days ago

    It was also responsible for the highly anti-intellectual culture that existed and still continues in said country today. So it swings both ways.

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      1 day ago

      Anti-intellectual cultire fixated on higher education? I’m not saying that we don’t have collective mental disorders. Maybe during Stalin(see Doctors’ Case, cybernetics and genetics), but generally no.

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        19 hours ago

        The whole sctick of the Bolsheviks was to equalize everyone. Anyone that specialized in anything was demonized. Was the country started starving, that’s when higher education and allowing citizens to specialize again started to become the focus.