#semashko

[klimbims]

Sovnarkom | Совнарком, 1918 by Olga Via Flickr: Highest State power of the Russian Soviet Republic, 1918 Council of People's Commissars - Sovnarkom Высшая власть Российской Советской республики Совет народных комиссаров - Совнарком, 1918

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N.A. Semashko outlined an ambitious programme of socialist eugenics in 1922, celebrating the appalling truth that eugenics 'will place the interests of the whole society, of the collective, first, above the interests of the individual persons'.

"Nature via Nurture: Genes, Experience, and What Makes Us Human" - Matt Ridley