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Do you mean Kudryavtsev?
What kind of school was this? Russian? American? Geology? History of science?
How can you tell the difference between a "mandate" and an argument? CellBioGuy compares your story to Lysenkoism, but Lysenko called his opponents "wreckers" and had them executed. I can imagine that his example had a chilling effect on future disagreement with superiors, but if this were a systematic problem with Soviet science, why don't we have more examples?
Unfortunately I am going to have to call "pause" until I can get some books from my office, or otherwise track down exactly the details I'm half-remembering.
Unfortunately Google has been totally worthless, in that the first several pages are things like "Peak oil a myth? The shocking secret of oil's abiogenic origin!" It's really quite mindkilling.