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You could just as easily postulate that the lack of religous teaching (caused also by the Stalinist regime) was the cause of a poor agricultural industry.

A good case can be made for bad biology being the result of the demise of the Soviet agricultural industry by demonstrating how the state-sponsored biological explanation for species diversity -- Lysenkoism -- is demonstratably false, and attempting to grow crops based upon that biology will almost certainly yeild undesirable results, as it is impossible to "shape" an organism beyond what its genetic makeup will allow.

Do you have a coherent explanation as to how a lack of religious teaching can lead to agricultural disaster?

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Dimensio: "Do you have a coherent explanation as to how a lack of religious teaching can lead to agricultural disaster?"

I was merely highlighting the inconguity of your assertion - not that I think religious training had much to do with the state of agricultural development.

The hypothesis that the Soviet State quashed most all science and free thinking is probably more to the root of the matter. It just so happens that religion was caught up in this same net as well.