Ohh and to add. One big 'thing' in the Soviet Union was research in phage therapy, hoping to replace antibiotics with it, but somehow they didn't end up replacing antibiotics with homebrew phage therapy, something that I'd expect to happen if they were simply finding what they wanted to find, and otherwise not doing science. To summarize, I see this allegation of some grave fault but I fail to see the consequences of this fault. Nor did they end up having all the workers take some 'nootropics' that don't work, or anything likewise stupid.