The Scientist, The Imposter and Stalin: How to Feed the People

The Scientist, The Imposter and Stalin: How to Feed the People

 

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0h 56m 2018 HD

The documentary tells two very different human fates in the 1920s Soviet Union. Nikolai Vavilov was a botanical genius, Trofim Lyssenko was an agronomist who made great promises and fake inventions. Each of them tried to solve the country's nutritional problem, but only one succeeded.


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