Editing Trofim Lysenko (section)

====August 1948 session of VASKhNIL====
[[File:1948-VASHNIL.jpg|thumb|Verbatim report of the 1948 VASKhNIL session]]
On 10 April 1948, [[Yuri Zhdanov]], who considered the complaints of scientists against Lysenko, made a report at the Polytechnic Museum at a seminar of regional party committee lecturers on the topic "Controversial issues of modern Darwinism." Lysenko himself listened to the Zhdanov's critical speech over a loudspeaker in another room, since he was denied a ticket to the report.<ref>{{cite web | title=1948. Письмо Лысенко Сталину и Жданову / Письмо Лысенко Бенедиктову | website=Лысенкоизм.Народ.Ру | url=https://lysenkoism.narod.ru/lstal.htm | language=ru | access-date=2024-05-14}}</ref>

From 31 July to 7 August 1948, a Session of the [[VASKhNIL|All-Union Academy of Agricultural Sciences]] (VASKhNIL) took place, at which most of the speakers supported Lysenko’s biological views and pointed to the "practical successes" of specialists of the "Michurinist movement."<ref name="Voinov"/><ref name="washniil"/>

At the session, Lysenko presented erroneous views on genetics (denial of [[Mendelian inheritance#Law of Segregation of genes|Mendel's law of segregation]], denial of immutable "genes"), as well as politicized statements addressed to opponents (for example, [[Thomas Hunt Morgan|Morgan]]'s genetics was credited with justifying racism, [[eugenics]], and serving the interests of the militaristic [[bourgeoisie|bourgeois]] class).<ref name="washniil"/>