Thank you for the link, prolewiki is such an incredible project, I can’t praise them enough

I don’t know a lot about Gonzalo. Can you elaborate further? What was his “official” reason to do this? He was just a fucking racist boiling indigenous babies?

It’s probably because it was cheaper than going to the US, and they were doing top-tier science.

I actually had a couple of professors from the physics department in my uni here in Brasil who lived for some years in the URSS to get their PHD. Never talked about it with them though