Page 109 - The Disasters Darwinism Brought To Humanity

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D D A R W I N I S M : T H E S O U R C E O F C O M M U N I S T S A V A G E R Y Y 109
In the same book, G. Glurdjidze, a boyhood friend of Stalin's relates
how Stalin had stopped believing in God and had told him that the reason
for this was Darwin's book, pressurising him into reading it too. 93
One important indication of Stalin's blind faith in the theory of evo-
lution was the Soviet education system's rejection of Mendel's genetic
laws in the period when he came to power. These laws, which had been
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accepted by the whole world of science since the start of the 20 century,
denied Lamarck's claim that "acquired traits can be passed on to later ge-
nerations." The Russian scientist Lysenko saw this as a heavy blow to the
theory of evolution and at the same time a great danger, and told Stalin
his ideas. Stalin was impressed by Lysenko's ideas and made him head of
the official scientific associations. Thus genetic science, which had dealt a
heavy blow to evolution, was not accepted in any Soviet Union scientific
association or school until Stalin's death.
In Stalin's period the Soviet Union had turned into an environment
of chaos where for millions of people life was permanently under threat,
and where they could be taken away, though innocent of any crime, at any
moment, to suffer unimagined torments. Not just Communism, but the
history of Fascism, too, is full of such attitudes.
Some commentators on history fall into the error, when evaluating
these events, of trying to show that the basic cause of all this savagery and
mercilessness was that as people, Lenin, Stalin, Mao, Hitler, and Mussoli-
ni had unbalanced and psychopathic natures. What kind of coincidence is
it, that the whole world should have fallen into the hands of psychologi-
cally unbalanced people at the same time?
It is an obvious and definite truth that these people and ideologies all
drank from the same well and that they were all portrayed as justified and
the only way by the same source. In short there was another guilty party
behind these people. The cause of these inhuman and unbalanced leaders
dragging millions along behind them, and which allowed them to commit
crimes, was the apparent scientific force and support given to them by
materialist philosophy and Darwinism.