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November 1936 and denounced Levit and Agol as promoters of fascist ideas. At the international meeting of geneticists in Moscow, Muller was an invited speaker and there was considerable debate on eugenics. This was utilized by Trofim Lysenko to demonstrate that his
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ideas on eugenics and racism. In 1935 the institute was renamed to the Maxim Gorky
Research Institute of Medical Genetics and they had begun work among others on 234 twins. There had also been a proposal for positive eugenics with human artificial insemination under Alexander Serebrovsky.
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that was still in fashion. He left work in the clinic to move to the
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opponents who had been trained in genetics were fascists. Muller, who stayed on early in 1937, later faced the threat of being arrested but escaped.
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