WINDOW ON RUSSIA
Sir,-Professor Eric Ashby, in a recent talk reported in The Listener, said that the average foreigner is compelled to look at Russian science "through a blurred and indistinct window called the Society for Cultural Relations with Foreign Countries--Voks." If Professor Ashby considers that he provides a clear and distinct window from which to view Soviet science, then his own recorded talk contradicts that belief. He has told us a sad story about the world famous scientist, S. I. Vavilov, of his martyrdom because he would not conform to Communist ideologies, and of his "believed death in prison in 1942." The Moscow News of November 20, 1946 (it has only just reached Nfw Zealand) headlines an interview with the U.S.S.R. Academy of Sciences regarding the approaching elections of new academicians. The President is none other than §S, I. Vavilov for whom Professor Ashby has shed such crocodile tears. Perhaps it may be that the Professor saw the Soviet Sciences through the smoked glasses of anti-Soviet propaganda, rather than through the "rose-tinted windows" which he so despises.
IAN S.
MACDOUGALL
(Mt. Eden).
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 16, Issue 408, 18 April 1947, Page 18
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183WINDOW ON RUSSIA New Zealand Listener, Volume 16, Issue 408, 18 April 1947, Page 18
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