Lysenko forced farmers to plant seeds very close together since, according to his “law of the life of species”, plants from the same “class” never compete with one another.[9] Lysenko played an active role in the famines that killed millions of Soviet people and his practices prolonged and exacerbated the food shortages.[9] The People’s Republic of China under Mao Zedong adopted his methods starting in 1958, with calamitous results, contributing to the Great Chinese Famine of 1959 to 1962, in which some 15–55 million people died.[note 1][9]
Even the Gulag system only killed 1 million of the 18 million people who passed through it. Most survived internment.
The vast majority of “Stalin’s” deaths were from Lysenkoism rarher than Stalin directly.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trofim_Lysenko#Consequences_of_Lysenko’s_views
Even the Gulag system only killed 1 million of the 18 million people who passed through it. Most survived internment.