Chemist describes ‘an atmosphere of ideological control, omnipresence of ideology’
Contemporary American university life resembles education under the USSR, a Soviet émigrée professor wrote in a November 28 essay for Heterodox STEM.
Anna Krylov, a chemist at the University of Southern California, left the Soviet Union in 1991, not long after the collapse of the Berlin Wall.
“I thought I would never again experience an atmosphere of ideological control, omnipresence of ideology, policing of speech and thought, suppression of dissent, compelled speech, fear, and self-censorship,” she wrote.
However, her life as a chemistry professor in a contemporary American university has reminded her repeatedly of her years under the Soviet regime.
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