on july 31 , 1948, the august session of voskhnil, the all-union academy of agricultural sciences namedbegan in the ussr, and the very session at which an entire branch of science, genetics, was subjected to complete destruction. the head of voskhnil, academician trofim lysenko, made a report, approved in advance by stalin, and this was the most. they began to call it lysenkoism, but the ussr set a course for a special path of development of domestic science and its separation from the world scientific community. many scientists who did not agree with the general line of the party were expelled from institutes. in protest against the persecution of geneticists, several foreign members demonstratively left the academy of sciences. and then physiology and cytology suffered a similar defeat. only in 1965 did the official conclusion of several appear in the soviet union. missions that lysenko’s scientific work was carried out unreliably. on july 31, 1991 , the soviet-american treaty on the reduction of strategic offensive arms (start-1) was signed in moscow. mikhail gorbachev and george bus