How little has indeed changed in #Russia way of public debate since the #USSR times! Here’s a short fragment from a 1950 speech[^1] by Olga Lepeshinskaya[^2, a less known colleague of Trofim Lysenko. Lepeshinskaya also fought with mainstream genetics (the expletive of that time was “idealism”), but also pushed her own theory of routine emergence of living cells from simple inorganic matter. That accusation of “anti-patriotic criticism” could be just as well taken from today’s rants between Solovyov, Girkin and Tatarsky:

These idealists resort to anti-patriotic criticism of the works of materialist-dialecticians, to the Straussian method of criticism. Some of them, in order to spread their idealistic, anti-patriotic ideas and to discredit Soviet science, considering themselves monopolists in science, not only propagate Virchow’s doctrine in their works and textbooks, but also use the tribune of scientific societies and even the press that has fallen under their influence (“Medical Worker”).

Original:

Эти идеалисты прибегают к антипатриотической критике работ материалистов-диалектиков, к страховскому методу критики. Некоторые из них для распространения своих идеалистических, антипатриотических идей и для дискредитации советской науки, считая себя монополистами в науке, не только пропагандируют учение Вирхова в своих трудах, учебниках, но и пользуются трибуной научных обществ и даже попавшей под их влияние печати («Медицинский работник»).

[^1]: http://www.bioparadigma.spb.ru/lepeshiskaya2.htm

[^2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olga_Lepeshinskaya_(biologist)#Claims