I have a fair amount of first hand knowledge with people who lived through 70 years of Communism where it was a state crime to teach anything other than atheism and evolution in the public forum.
Actually, the teaching of Darwinian Evolution was outlawed in the Soviet Union. They declared it a product of bourgeois capitalism, since it emphasized competition for survival. Instead, they required that Lamarckianism be taught as the means by which speciation occurred. Lamarckianims proposes that, for example, the ancestors of giraffes struggling to reach higher and higher edibles in the trees, stretched their necks ever so slightly throughout their lives by this process, and then passed that slight morphological change on to their descendants, till eventually we had modern day giraffes. Anyone caught teaching Darwinian Evolution was arrested for promoting competition rather than cooperation.
As a result of this, the Soviet Union suffered year after year of crop failure, eventually leading to their giving up of Lamarckianism and conceding that Darwinian Evolution was correct.
This, The teaching and study of Mendelavian genetics was outlawed in the USSR. Tough to teach evolution without basic genetics.
People who choose to brew up their own storms bitch loudest about the rain.
