How to pronounce “lyse” in English

Because of Lysenko, thousands of Soviet geneticists lost their jobs, hundreds were thrown into prison,

1967-- now Lysenko is gone.

and about 20 were actually murdered by Lysenko's thugs for doing the crime of modern Western genetics.

Union. And what Lysenko said was that modern genetics was

So this picture comes from a conference where Lysenko was giving one of these fire-spitting talks, calling Western geneticists saboteurs and wreckers.

And the reason that it was illegal was because of this person right here-- Trofim Lysenko.

First of all, even though Lysenko is not as powerful as he used to be, if he decided to make an example of us,

Nobody knows better how dangerous this is because one of those 20 people who was murdered by Lysenko was Belyaev's older brother--

And when he finished, Stalin stood up and yelled out, bravo, comrade Lysenko.

But that failed miserably, because as soon as the Mensheviks, the moderates, had been ousted, then we got all this stuff like Lysenkoism,