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Translated from the Russian by E. M. Swiderski (Fribourg)
This article was accepted for publication by the editors ofFilosofskie Nauki of the Ministry of Higher Education of the SSSR, for issue number 4, 1975. However, according to the instructions of a member of theapparat of the Central Committee of the CPSU, it was not published, allegedly because Weizsäcker's name should not be mentioned since he had come forth (where and when was not made clear) with anti-Soviet remarks. This is the fourth time since 1968, after having spoken out in Prague, in the party organRude Pravo, and later in Moscow at the All Union Conference on Methodological Problems of Cybernetics, where in both instances I said unequivocally that “socialism had not been realized anywhere”, that my work has been refused publication in the USSR. So it was with my article for the seventieth anniversary of relativity theory, containing numerous reminiscences about Einstein, which had been prepared for publication byVoprosy filosofii, but was suppressed after the intervention of the CC. The same fate befell my extensive studyThe Problem of Infinity despite the fact that it had been unanimously approved for publication by the Scientific Committee of the Institute of the History of Science and Technology of the Academy of Science of the USSR, and accepted by Nauka publishers. The same happened with myHistory of Mathematical Logic, a chapter written on commission for theHistory of Contemporary Mathematics, published by the same Institute. It is clear that the attitude of contemporary Soviet rulers toward science is hardly different from that of the Middle ages.
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Kolman, E. The philosophical interpretation of contemporary physics. Studies in Soviet Thought 21, 1–14 (1980). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00832022
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