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If I understand correctly, Soviet biology was in shambles because of Lysenko.
I'm not sure how long this lasted: My dad is a gifted biochemist who emigrated in 89. So they must've had some way of teaching real useful science
The grandparent overgeneralizes -- Soviet genetics was pretty much absent, but the rest of biology was fine (well, at least as fine as it could be expected to be under the Soviet regime).
I have difficulty seeing how you can do biology beyond pure description ("Here's a species of bird with appearance X and behavior Y") while ignoring both genetics and natural selection. Doing cellular biology seems near-impossible if you can't mention DNA, while ecology is similarly linked to selection pressure.