The Soviet record on science includes astounding triumphs - they put the first human in space and contributed immensely to theoretical physics (there were several Soviet Nobel laureates in physics, including Andrei Sakharov and Lev Landau, and the Landau-Lifshitz textbooks on theoretical physics still remain among the best) - and also laughable failures, such as Lysenkoism and the abuse of psychiatry for 'rehabilitation' purposes. This stance wouldn't be lifted until Nikita Khrushchev took power and U.S.S.R.'s first computer was finished in the mid-1950s.

as the Party proclaimed those 'false sciences' for being 'bourgeois' (which makes as much sense as Nazis dismissing Einsteinian relativity and the modern theory of the atom as 'Jewish physics'). It is worth noting that historically the most recognizable disciplines of any superscience - genetics and cybernetics - received a poor start in the U.S.S.R. After the end of the Cold War, 'abandoned Soviet experiments' was frequently used to Hand Wave the continued appearance of menacing communist super-weapons in a world that suddenly had fewer communists.

Something of a Discredited Trope and usually only played for laughs. is left out, as long as both sides are in a Lensman Arms Race.) Expect lots of Nikola Tesla technology. The tendency to give those Dirty Commies technologies far beyond their Western counterparts in Cold War or futuristic settings. Josef Stalin, 1931 note Ten years later, the Nazis invaded.

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