"Yup. Places where superstition was taught instead of science."
Nope. They were places that leftists operated, and if you failed to rethink according to the reeducation you were killed.
It started, however, with edicts like Tim's.
I don't know who you're trying to fool with you Orwellian doublespeak but everyone knows it's the creationists who are the radical left-wingers railing on Darwin's Influence on Ruthless Laissez Faire Capitalism.