[varjag]

> The institute survived through the horrible times of stalin and later it became of strategic importance as the west didn't share antibiotics with the soviet union.

Penicillin and Streptocide were shipped to USSR under Lend-Lease in industrial quantities and saved many hundreds of thousands lives.

[Retric]

That’s true, but Lend-Lease ended well before Stalin’s death.

[otabdeveloper2]

You're nuts if you think the USSR didn't have penicillin and other antibiotics.

[Retric]

Penicillin and plenty of others sure, but it’s a huge list and resistance has long been fought via the use of novel antibiotics: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_antibiotics

USSR’s issues where generally more economic than technological. However, they did lag behind the curve in introducing new antibiotics. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy_of_the_Soviet_Union#/m...