如果社会主义那么不好，苏联是怎样诞生出那么多科学家的？

If socialism is so bad, how did the Soviet Union produce so many scientists?

答主：Stepan Serdyuk, a Russian for life

Education.
教育。

The Soviet Union, admittedly, wasn’t a paradise, nor socialism was a magic wand to solve every human problem. Obviously, there were some things that were worse than under the competitive ideologies - but, at the same time, some things were definitely better.
诚然苏联不是天堂，社会主义也不是能解决一切人类问题的魔杖。显然，它在某些方面比和它竞争的意识形态要糟糕——但与此同时，也有一些方面毫无疑问更好。

And one of these things was education.
其中的一个方面就是教育。

Free, standard, universally available education.
免费、标准化而普及的教育。

No matter if you were a man or a woman, a white Russian or an ethnic minority, a son of an important Party official or a peasant from a small village somewhere deep in Siberia, you could - scratch that, should’ve - apply for it and receive it in full. This is why the USSR had such a great number of scientists, doctors, engineers, physicists; of any gender, race, or social background. It did stagger in some other areas, but in this regard, it was truly great.
不论你是男人还是女人，俄罗斯白人还是少数民族，党的重要领导人的儿子还是西伯利亚深处某个小村庄的农民，你都可以——应该说是必须——申请入学并完整接受教育。这就是为什么苏联拥有如此多的科学家、医生、工程师、物理学家，他们可以是任何性别、种族和社会背景。苏联在许多领域都走得磕磕绊绊，但在这一点上，它确实是伟大的。

单词表

admittedly adv. 诚然，无可否认
paradise n. 天堂，乐园
wand n. 魔杖，魔棒
competitive adj. 竞争的
ideology n. 意识形态
definitely adv. 肯定，毫无疑问
ethnic adj. 民族的，种族的
peasant n. （尤指旧社会或贫穷国家的）农民，农夫
scratch v. 划，抓
race n. 人种，种族 / 比赛  v. 参加比赛
stagger v. 摇晃，蹒跚
in this regard 在这一点上

译自：https://qr.ae/prMwS7

时间：2020年12月22日