But if you teach a whole nation a powerful philosophy of science, some of them
might find it useful. Vladimir A. Fock (1898-1974) reported that his engagement
with the ideology enabled him to devise a new set of harmonic coordinates for
general relativity. Yakov I. Frenkel (1894-1952) developed his notion of “holes”
and “collective excitations” in condensed-matter physics through extensive
reflection on contemporary Soviet political thought.
Yeah. Right. You ever wondered why people suddenly agree with the political system they live in, when otherwise said system would send them on extra holidays in a Gulag for comitting thought-crimes?