One of the brightest blooms in what Joseph Stalin calls "our Soviet garden" is robustly proliferating Soviet Science. But this bloom bears thorns.
The Soviet high command treats its scientists well so long as they stay at home, work hard, behave themselves. It has little trouble with the 30,000 or so enthusiastic inventors who are busy inventing everything from electric fish nets to depilatories for sheep. But science in the U. S. S. R. has lacked a certain prestige since the death of Ivan Petrovich ("Conditioned Reflex") Pavlov, who used to grumble sometimes...
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