TBF Stalin had a habit of literally and repeatedly exterminating the entire class of people that included scientists, so they kept having to be repopulated with whomever was available regardless of gender.
It’s very easy to tell when someone’s only impression of the soviet union just comes from movies and shows because this is up there with “In North Korea everyone has to push the trains by hand”.
TBF Stalin had a habit of literally and repeatedly exterminating the entire class of people that included scientists, so they kept having to be repopulated with whomever was available regardless of gender.
It’s very easy to tell when someone’s only impression of the soviet union just comes from movies and shows because this is up there with “In North Korea everyone has to push the trains by hand”.
Kotkin’s biography series of Stalin is “movies and shows”? Could have sworn they were books.
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