AnthillOmbudsman t1_jaa9a5q wrote on February 27, 2023 at 11:53 PM

Reply to comment by WiseChoices in TIL that when epidemiologist Tamara Safonova and virologist Alexandra Sheboldaeva discovered Tick-Borne Encephalitis Virus in 1937, they were accused of spreading the virus themselves and sentenced to 18 years in Soviet labor camps. by SecretAgentIceBat

It doesn't help that the government at the time was literally a mob of gangsters. They thought nothing of enslaving millions of their own people for free labor.

COSLEEP t1_jab8vfr wrote on February 28, 2023 at 4:23 AM

Time's ticking, America