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Trying to find out what Tsitsin actually wrote. The source is The Sunday Express, London, April 15, 1945, if anyone has a copy. Meanwhile, this about Tsitsin:

Nikolai Tsitsin’s career started in the early 1930s. In 1935, with Stalin’s personal support,
Tsitsin became director of the West Siberian Experimental Station in Omsk,
and the station was promoted to the Siberian Institute of Grain Culture. In
1938, he was appointed director of the Academy Botanical Garden in
Moscow. From the late 1940s to early 1950s, during the time of Lysenko’s
greatest power, Tsitsin was chairman of the “Court of Honor” of the
Academy of Sciences. These “courts,” which existed within the ministries and
the central state committees, were created in the late 1940s to try scientists
who refused to follow Lysenko’s pseudoscience or for officials who did not
follow the instructions of Communist Party leaders. In November 1947, the
“Court of Honor” of the Academy of Sciences condemned anti-Lysenkoist
geneticist Anton Zhebrak (1901—1965). The “court trial” was supervised by
the Politburo main ideologist, Mikhail Suslov. As a result, Zhebrak was dismissed
from his post as president of the Belorussian Academy of Sciences.
The MGB tried to arrest him at his apartment in Minsk, but Zhebrak’s
friends hid him and the MGB did not find him. But it seems Lysenko did
not inspire loyalty. In February 1948, Tsitsin wrote a letter to Stalin criticizing
Lysenko, and in the late 1950s, he became Lysenko’s rival ...

Birstein, Vadim J. The perversion of knowledge: the true story of Soviet science. Hachette UK, 2009.

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