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In article <1992Aug26.114704.6663@cs.joensuu.fi>, asiivo@cs.joensuu.fi 
(Antti Siivonen) writes:
>ecmtwhk@ccu1.aukuni.ac.nz (Thomas Koenig) writes:
>
>>I recently heard from a friend that some universities in what used to be
>>the Eastern block did not teach the second law of thermodynamics to
>>their students, because that was seen to collide with Marxist philosophy
>>that the world was going to perfection, and was therefore politically
>>incorrect to the highest degree. He also mentioned that Goedel's theorem
>>was taught to be fallacious, for the same reason. Is this true?
>
>	I suppose it isn't true. I'm myself from Leningrad. I don't have 
>	noticed it. 
>-- 
>
>		Andreas - Siperian Sirri   Siberian Stint
>
>	No ITU, love, evolution.           Tuusniemi ! Siis imein suut !

Although, when I was in college I had heard a story (with attributed quotes, 
which makes it more credible) about the communist party originally rejecting
the concept that there was no ether (a hypothesized medium through which
light waves were supposed to propagate) and therefore no absolute (true 
rest) frame of reference for motion, because the idea that there are no 
absolutes is contrary to the principal of dialectic materialism.
Time frame on this story is a good 80 years ago, but tall tales might
have stretched it to the story Koenig told.


RB