During which Soviet leader's tenure was Vavilov arrested?
Vladimir Lenin
Nikita Khrushchev
Mikhail Gorbachev
Joseph Stalin
Answer
Vavilov was arrested during the tenure of Joseph Stalin. Stalin was the Soviet dictator from 1929 to 1953. Vavilov was a prominent geneticist and plant breeder who was arrested in 1940 and died in prison in 1943. Stalin was a paranoid dictator who was suspicious of anyone who he thought might be a threat to his power.
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