It was equally obvious to Joe Stalin that planting wheat in Siberia would make the wheat more cold-resistant in the next generation - acquired hardiness. Scientific socialism on the half-shell!
The great Soviet scientist Lysenko must not be questioned!
Does anyone hear an echo?
Everyone interested in the climate change controversy should know of the first “politically-correct” scientist, Stalin’s man Lysenko:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trofim_Lysenko